Level: I Lesson: Present Continuous Tense Lesson Aims: - to highlight some of the uses of Present Continuous. - to contrast Present Simple and Present Continuous. - to give students practice in using Present Continuous Tense. - to develop Ss’ speaking competences. Skills involved: listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ writing. Aids: blackboard‚ textbook‚ work-sheet‚ images‚ video sequences. Warm-up General competence: to interact in spoken communication (complete date‚ recall the activities done
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CELTA WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1 LANGUAGE RELATED TASKS Look at the sentences below and identify the following: the verb form and structure the meaning (contrast the vocabulary items in number 4) possible student difficulties (in terms of form‚ meaning and phonology) a likely context through which you could teach the language (who says this sentence to whom and why?) check questions you might ask to check understanding (think about this in relation to your answer for b)‚ your analysis of the function/meaning)
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Lesson 13 Lesson 14 Lesson 15 Review 4 2nd day dialogues: A’s version 2nd day dialogues: B’s version Listening texts: Lesson 1 – 15 Appendix: Verb list Combined vocabulary list List of post positions Sentence structure charts Verb conjugation charts Interrogatives‚ demonstratives‚ etc Numerals /home/j/Nepalo/nepali/ICOC/Training Modules/Basic Language 1/Materials/BLT 1 160503.doc 1 Introduction‚ Aims and Objectives Materials handed out Course book The material contains 15 lessons with homework assignments
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aspect of the verb 1.1 The verb as a notional word denoting process ……………………….4 1.2 Classification of English verbs...........................................................6 1.3 Grammatical categories of the verb....................................................11 Chapter II. Practical aspect of the grammatical categories of the verb in modern English 2.1 The problems of category of voice……………………………………..14 2.2 The problems of category of mood…………………………….............20
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meaning "name." Word classes like nouns were first described by Sanskrit grammarian Painini and ancient Greeks like Dionysios Thrax‚ and defined in terms of their morphological properties. For example‚ in Ancient Greece‚ nouns can be inflected for grammatical case‚ such as dative or accusative. Verbs‚ on the other hand‚ can be inflected for tenses‚ such as past‚ present or future‚ while nouns cannot. Aristotle also had a notion of onomata (nouns) and rhemata (verbs) which‚ however‚ does not exactly correspond
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cause to be -ism – action or practice‚ state or condition -less – lack of -ly – -like -ology – study‚ science -ship – condition‚ character‚ skill -y – characterized by‚ inclination‚ condition Derivation may result in new words of the same grammatical
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…………………………...…......4 1.1. Notion of modality and history of its study ……….…….………….4 1.2. Modal verbs as means of expressing modality………………...........6 Conclusions to Chapter One ………………………………………………........12 CHAPTER TWO. LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL MEANS OF EXRESSING MODALITY …………………………………………...…..13 2.1. Modal verbs as means of expressing possibility and probability....13 2.2. Modal verbs as means of expressing advice………………… .…..14 2.3. Modal verbs as means of
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clear semantic content. ❖ In this sense they are like content words‚ except that they are not words. ❖ As we have seen‚ when a derivational morpheme added to a base‚ it adds meaning. ❖ The derived word may also be of a different grammatical class than the original word‚ as shown by suffixes such as –able and-ly ❖ Example : When a verb is suffixed with –able the result is an adjective‚ as in desire +able = desirable When the suffix –en is added to an adjective‚ a verb
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English as an analytic or synthetic language Old English is frequently presented as a synthetic language‚ a language in which grammatical function of clause elements is primarily derived from inflections rather than from word order and prepositions‚ while Present Day English is said to be the opposite‚ and analytic language‚ A.C. Baugh writes that “Modern English in an analytic‚ Old English a synthetic language.” Similarly‚ Dan McIntyre writes that “The main difference between Old English and
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perceived situations including notes on the future‚ time expressions‚ and the HISTORICAL PRESENT. A distinction is made between LEXICAL ASPECT‚ concerned with inherent properties of verb meaning such as STATIVE‚ DYNAMIC‚ PUNCTUAL‚ and DURATIVE‚ and GRAMMATICAL ASPECT‚ concerned with an internal versus an external perspective on situations. Basic forms The basic element in a English sentence is the ver. We need to talk about TENSE‚ to describe different forms of the verb. English has two distinct
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