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Assignment 2 Answer Sheet
Assignment 2 Answer Sheet
ASSIGNMENT TWO
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Raghdah AL-Madany
Assignment 2
Answer sheet
Meaning:
1.. a 60 year old person has spent almost 20 years asleep (Grammar)
Present perfect is used to talk about situations continuing up to now, especially when
we say how long they have lasted. The action is unfinished. It is a general action, not
a specific one.
CCQs
Positive
Negative
Question
The present perfect links the past and the present focusing on the effect or result at
the time of speaking or writing,
We form the present perfect simple with has (`s) or have (`ve) followed by the main
verb in a past participle form.
Pronunciation:
has spent / /
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Meaning:
1. Problem: Student may not be aware of the way the present perfect is used.
Solution: use gestures to check and ask them to demonstrate how it is used by
using the time line. Also elicit more examples from the students about it is uses.
Form:
Solution: Use the white board to illustrate the use of has for the singular and have
for the plural monitor and correct if necessary.
Solution: Elicit clearly onto the board and monitor when students are speaking and
writing
Pronunciation:
Solution: highlight the contraction during clarification and drill the contracted form.
5. Problem: Students may stress the auxiliaries rather than the main verbs
Solution: drill the stress and elicit this into the board.
Reference
How English works A Grammar practical book 2nd edition by Michael Swan &
Catherine Walter, Oxford ( 1997)
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Meaning: (Grammar 2)
1- If scientists invented a pill which, if you took, would keep you awake for
ever, would you take it? (grammar)
If second conditional usually suggests that the situation is less probable, or less
definite, or impossible, or imaginary compared to the first conditional which uses the
present tense.
CCQs:
Is it possible to take this pill? No, it is not possible. Because it is not available
Positive
Negative
Question
We form the second conditionals as if clause (if + past tense) + conditional clause
However, we do not use a comma when we begin with the conditional clause.
Pronunciation:
1-If scientists invented a pill which, if you took, would keep you awake for ever, would
you take it?
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Meaning:
Solution: Teacher uses CCQs to further pinpoint the meaning and elicit examples
on the board.
Form:
2. Problem: Students may not be familiar with the past participle of the irregular
verbs.
Solution: Teacher separates irregular verbs according to the same ending on the
white board and drills these words.
3. Problem: Students may easily forget the grammar of long conditional sentence
with two clauses if and mix between them by using if + infinitive instead of the past
simple.
Solution: Teacher can help students by teaching and practicing one clause at a time,
also provide a lot of opportunities and help for students to master this rule by using
CCQs to reinforce form and elicit on the board.
Pronunciation:
Reference
Vocabulary
Meaning:
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Other example:
Women who put off having a baby often make the best mothers.
CCQs
Are we going to sleep now or later on? Later
Can we delay it for a long time? Yes, we can
Form
Phrasal verb used informally, it can be (transitive verb) (separable) means does not
need an object or intransitive (needs an object).
Verb+ adverb
Pronunciation:
Put off
Meaning:
Problem: students might not know how to use them because they have a figurative
meaning. As a result, they might translate them literately.
Solution: Teacher may clarify the use of phrasal verbs and provides examples within
sentences so that students can work out the meaning by looking carefully at the verb.
Solution: Teacher elicits on the board their use and provides examples , CCQs to
further pinpoint meaning,
Form:1
Solution: Teacher elicits on the board each phrasal verb with an example from the
text.
Problem: multiword forms may have two or more meanings, so learners may be
misled by recognising a form and assuming that it has the meaning that they already
know.
Solution: Teacher will provide examples and elicit from students what does each
phrasal verb mean in the sentence by drilling the form and questions to reinforce the
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form.
Pronunciation:
Problem: the disappearance of the sound /t/ in put off. (weak form)
Solution: teacher models and drills the phrasal verb for students.
Vocabulary
Meaning:
CCQs:
If something is happening eventually, will it happen straight away? No
Do we die before we have hallucination? No
Do we die after a considerable period we have hallucination? Yes.
Form:
Adverbs describe verbs. , most of the adverbs end in ly. Adverbs are located before
the verb in the sentence.
Pronunciation:
/vntuli /
There are four syllables and the main stress is placed on the first syllable.
Reference
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/
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Meaning:
Problem: Students might not understand the meaning of eventually, giving it the
meaning of possibility because in many Latin languages like Italian or Spanish.
Solution: Teacher CCQs the word to show students that eventually means
inevitability not possibility. Elicit examples of other contexts to reinforce meaning.
Form:1
Problem: Students may spell the word wrongly with one (L) instead of two
Solution: Teacher colour codes the correct spelling on the board and asks
questions to reinforce form.
Problem: Students might omit the last syllabus (ly) of the word, only saying the
adjective.
Solution: Model the correct pronunciation and stress the last sound of the word / /
Pronunciation:
Problem: Students may not pronounce eventually correct, or stress the wrong
syllabus , the sounds change of /t/ to / /
Solution: Teacher uses the phonemic chart to model the word, drills chorally and
individually with the whole class.