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Students are asked to work in pairs to complete Exercise 6. Here is a good opportunityfor students to discuss a specific grammar issue in English. Students can find theirarticles in magazines or newspapers and/or use the Internet to find an interesting article.Confusing Verb Tenses (2.3)There are 12 verb tenses in English. Verb tenses do not overlap well from one languageto another. For example, a situation that requires present perfect in English might requireonly simple present in English. Some languages do not have progressive forms at all.Others have similar forms but do not use them in the same way in English.In Exercise 7, students underline the correct verb tense of the three options presented.This is an essay-length exercise with 22 answers.In Exercise 8, students must use verb tense information to answer questions that part of asmall mini-mystery. Students like this exercise! (Question number 6 is a bonus question:This question pushes students to see who has really understood the material.)Exercise 9 is a review multiple-choice exercise about endangered species. Exercise 10 isan opportunity for students to do original writing that demonstrates their control over thethree verb form errors reviewed in this chapter.2
Top 20, Great Grammar for Great Writing, First EditionTeaching Noteshttp://esl.college.hmco.com/instructorsCopyright Houghton Mifflin CompanyChapter 3 – NounsOverviewNouns are probably the most basic part of speech. Nouns can be separated into concreteand abstract nouns. However, for ESL purposes, a more appropriate way of classifyingnouns is as count or noncount. (Noncount nouns are also called mass nouns.)In English, noncount nouns do not have plural form (so they can’t have –s) and are notpreceded by many or a few but rather by much or a little.You may want to combine some material in this chapter with Chapter 7, which deals witharticles a, an, and the.Teaching NotesCount Nouns (3.1)This section focuses on these reminders:3.1.1: a singular count noun needs some determiner (a, an, the, my, your, one, etc.)In Exercise 1, students underline the sixteen count nouns and circle the articles ordeterminers that go with each noun.3.1.2: plural count nouns do not take a, an, or one as a determiner; some nouns have anirregular plural form (mouse, mice)In Exercise 2, students edit for errors.In Exercise 3, students fill in a chart with the correct forms. This format allows studentsto see clearly how this grammatical point functions. This is a good exercise for the visuallearners in your group.Noncount Nouns (3.2)Explain here the difference between count and noncount nouns. Have students generateexamples. Push students further to come up with examples of two nouns that are1
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