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    Unit 3 lesson 1 • The simple present and the simple past tenses. The Simple Present tense is used in English for the following purposes: Use When Example Repeated actions With frequency adverbs such as always, usually, often, sometimes, never, once a year, etc I always come to school early. She frequently arrives on time. Statement of facts To state a fact or ask a question without any time reference. I live in France. She plays soccer, but she doesn't like it. World truths Rules of nature

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    Verb Tense Exercise 1 Simple Present / Present Continuous 1. Every Monday, Sally (drive) her kids to football practice. 2. Usually, I (work) as a secretary at ABT, but this summer I (study) French at a language school in Paris. That is why I am in Paris. 3. Shhhhh! Be quiet! John (sleep) . 4. Don 't forget to take your umbrella. It (rain) . 5. I hate living in Seattle because it (rain, always) . 6. I 'm sorry I can 't hear what you (say) because everybody (talk) so loudly.

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    The past tense can affect someone very much, and it makes it hard for a person to move on for their present and future. It can be really significant for them, they keep on bringing the past back in their lives, and do everything to bring it back. In this case, is presented by Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald constantly makes Gatsby to bring his past with Daisy Buchanan, and for her is the reason why Jay Gatsby became a wealthy person. Jay Gatsby, came from a North Dakota. His family were

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    The past imperfect continuous tense shows changes in the form of the auxiliary verb according to the person and the number. Example: I was writing this book when the revolution occurred in Ghana. You were writing or sleeping at the time. She or he was sleeping. They were planning to seize power. The past perfect momentary tense is indicated by using the past form of have to get the past perfect. It does not change in any circumstance. Example: I had written. I had done that already. You had

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    fashion she will hopefully be able to see the difference and understand the rules of capitalization. Tenses: Meaning Aside from writing, Feruza’s is struggling with the correct verb form usage. When referring to events in her writing that occurred in the past she only uses the simple past tense and oftentimes she even uses the Present Simple Tense when referring to a completed action in the past: “she get merried before I come to Jeddah one year ago.” Feruza uses the right verbs but uses

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    Lesson 2 Amazing people. Simple Past with regular and irregular verbs A: Look at the picture. What do you think happened? Write a sentence about your prediction. (imagen de un bombero siendo entrevistado con burbuja de dialogo mostrando el rescate de un hombre viejo de su casa en llamas; el texto es de un periodico) ___________________________________________________________________ B: Read along silently as you listen to the next information. A rescue technique practiced earlier on the training

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    important to start making changes in the way students use spoken and written language, in order to stop the fossilization of words and start correcting them appropriately. In the sentence “...and a short film are exposed” happens that, the past and present tense are confused, because of the interference with L1 and, probably because of the lack of interaction using the

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    Lesson 1 Topic: The development of science in Ukraine, Tenses and Voices.  Lead-in W e start our work with a new topic The development of science in Ukraine. I propose you to recall some facts about this topic. W hat is the development of science in Ukraine connected with? W hat are the famous Ukrainian names in World Science? W hat interesting historical facts about the development of science do you know?  Main stage Reading practice: read the following text The development of science in Ukraine

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    familial relationships. In the next sentence, Tolstoy establishes the novel’s chaotic tone, describing everything in the Oblonskys’ household as being “upset”. The rest of the paragraph features a series of syntactically similar sentences in the past perfect tense that discuss, in a methodical way, the causes and effects of this

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    report you are always correct in using the personal pronouns “I” and “me” when referring to yourself. (Biggs, Michael, 17) The second rule of narrative writing is called past tense. The past tense is the tense that is most commonly used to describe events or actions that have already occurred which means by writing a report using past tense can develop consistency and can make the report easier to read. ( Biggs, Michael, 17) The third rule of narrative writing is called active voice. The active voice is

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