Top 20, Great Grammar for Great Writing, First Edition Teaching Notes

Explain the form. This tense always has present of BE plus an –ing form. Explain thefour functions of present progressive tense. In Exercise 2, have students write their ownoriginal sentences or collect sentences from the web or from a printed source such as anewspaper or magazine.Present Perfect Tense (1.4)Explain the form. This tense always has present of HAVE plus a past participle form.(You may have to review past participle forms. See appendix for a list of these forms.)Explain the seven functions of present perfect tense. In Exercise 3, have students writetheir own original sentences or collect sentences from the web or from a printed sourcesuch as a newspaper or magazine.Present Perfect Progressive Tense (1.5)Explain the form. This tense always has present of HAVE plus the past participle formof BE plus an –ing form of the verb. (You may have to review past participle forms. Seeappendix for a list of these forms.) Explain two common functions of present perfecttense. In Exercise 4, have students write their own original sentences or collect sentencesfrom the web or from a printed source such as a newspaper or magazine.Past Tense (1.6)Explain the form. Have students give examples of regular and irregular verbs. Make acontest to see which pair or group can come up with the biggest list of verbs in a set timelimit (say 3 minutes). The two kinds of past tenses illustrated may not seem different toyou as an English speaker, but in some languages, they require different verb forms whenstated in a series or list. In Exercise 5, have students write their own original sentences orcollect sentences from the web or from a printed source such as a newspaper ormagazine.More Expressions for Past Time: used to and would (1.6.1)Used to and would can often be used interchangeably. However, for a past verb that isnot an action, we usually use used to and not would. For example, we can’t say *“When Iwas a kid, I would hate onions.” In Exercise 6, you can have students write their ownoriginal sentences, but these verb forms might be more salient to students if they have tocollect sentences from the web or from a printed source such as a newspaper ormagazine.Past Progressive Tense (1.7)2