Sunday, 14 February 2016

Post CPE Lesson 14

Lesson 14
Class
Tenses - Relating the past to the present, state verbs (perception, mental states & feelings, relationships and states of being) and event/dynamic verbs (momentary acts, activities, processes).

When state verbs are used in the continuous form to emphasise the temporary nature of the situation or with a change of meaning.
Compare:
He's very helpful.
He's being very helpful.
He appears to be quite cold.
He's appearing in a play.
They have a house in the country.
They're having a party on Saturday.
Can you see the mountains from here?
Karen is seeing quite a lot of Geoff at the moment.
I think you should take the job.
I'm thinking about changing jobs.

Discussion & Reading
European Identity
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/eurocrisispress/2016/02/09/has-the-eu-failed-us-or-have-we-failed-to-forge-a-european-identity/

Corrections
ask to someone
Suffixes - German  (people, language, adjective) Germany (country), Economics, Economy 
Homework
1. Read the article again. What language features do you notice? E.g. Idiomatic expressions such as hang out to dry, word complementation - (little) enthusiasm for doing something.
2. Listening - Accents http://seansstudypage.blogspot.it/2016/02/accents-all-groups-changing-accent-of.html
3. Listening - Song of the week E = MC2 http://seansstudypage.blogspot.it/2016/02/song-of-week-all-groups-e-mc2-by-big.html

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