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

Explain the form. Go over the two uses of this verb tense. This is not a commonly usedverb tense. Grammar teachers love to teach this verb tense, but in the real world, studentswill not run into it as often as present perfect or simple past tense. In Exercise 12, havestudents write their own original sentences or collect sentences from the web or from aprinted source such as a newspaper or magazine.Future Perfect Progressive Tense (1.13)This form is rarely used. Explain the form. In Exercise 13, have students write their ownoriginal sentences or collect sentences from the web or from a printed source such as anewspaper or magazine. To show students how rare this form is, have them go to ameaty website (e.g., a newspaper or a magazine) to search for “will have” to see (1) howrare the form is and (2) how rarely it actually is a future perfect progressive form.PracticeAfter doing Exercise 14, have students create similar exercises, bring them to class,exchange with a classmate, and then return the completed paper to the creator. Thecreator has to grade the partner’s paper.A strong point of Exercise 15 is that the exact number of errors is given.Exercise 16 is a typical fill-in-the-blank exercise for verb tenses.In Exercise 17, students must identify the verb tense required AND then write in thecorrect verb tense. Students who are “into grammar” may like this activity since itcombines labeling with usage.Exercise 18 is a typical underlining exercise for verb tenses.Exercise 19 is a multiple choice exercise for verb tenses.Students are to get a sample text in English to complete Exercise 20. This is the ultimatetest: students have to take a real newspaper or article, circle the verbs, and identify theverb tenses being used.In the final exercise, Exercise 21, students are asked to write two paragraphs about twopeople, one alive and one deceased. They should use both affirmative and negativeforms. Students are encouraged to write about something that they have known, but thatis not a requirement.4