GPI Group 17 B1.1 Lesson 4 31/10/12

Lesson 4
31/10/12

Class

• Introduction to tenses:

Find and correct the mistakes in the following emails:

1. Dear Sean, today I don't come to the lesson because I go home for the holiday.
2. Dear Sir, I write about the summer Law course. I look on the website but I don't find the information.

What is the difference in meaning between the following pairs of sentences? What does it tell you about the present simple and the present continuous? (n.b. both sentences are correct but they convy different information)

1. What do you do?  What are you doing?
2. You are very nice. You are being very nice.
3. He always comes to class late. He is always coming to class late.
4. The train leaves in 5 minutes. The train is leaving in 5 minutes!

For more information about tenses and the importance of ASPECT see: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442655/The%20English%20Tense%20System

• Present Simple and Present Continuous Tenses p. 11, p. 134 - 135
• Travel Unit 2.1 Listening & Vocabulary p. 16 (n.b. the difference between travel/trip/journey and the expressions: to get away from it all, to broaden your horizons, to find yourself)
• Unit 2.2 p. 18 - 19 Reading, Phrasal Verbs, Past Simple p.136 - 137. Regular or Irregular/ Spelling/Use

Homework:

1. Study Aid Unit 1.5 p. 14, questions 1, 2a, 2b, 3a
2. Travel Vocabulary Unit 2.1 p. 16 question 3a, p. 17 question 7.
3. Self Study: Pronunciation of regular past tense endings. When do we use /d/, /t/ and /id/?
4. Self Study: See yesterday's post (30/10) for all GP groups on the length of trials in Italian courts.