Time: 1 hr 15 mins.
Overall Aims: The trainees will be able to look up structures, provide appropriate contexts
and write useful concept checking questions for grammatical structures at different levels.
This lesson also serves as revision and further practice of language analysis, which is often
a challenging area for trainees.
Warmer: 5 mins
Aim: to check that they have a clear idea about problem areas.
What are useful guidelines for concept check questions?
Discuss in small groups and elicit:
Now
She came
home
Yes.
When she came home.
Yes.
Maybe, I dont know.
Timelines
Look at these 5 structures a timeline isnt suitable for one choose which one isnt
suitable and draw timelines for the others.
1. Ive been waiting for hours.
2. I waited for two hours.
3. Ill take my umbrella in case it rains.
4. I have a shower every morning.
5. At 9.00 I was watching TV.
Possible answers
He must be so pleased with his exam results!
My friends son recently got his A level results. He got an A and 2 Bs these
are great results. Im sure that hes happy about it - He must be so pleased
with his exam results.
Meaning
Do I think he is pleased? (yes)
Am I sure? (yes)
Is this a fact? (NO!)
Is it possible that he is not happy with the results? (yes)
Form:
Must + bare infinitive
Opposite is cant (not mustnt) + bare infinitive
Pron
Final /t/ sound in must is lost
/msbi:/
Must could be stressed in the sentence for emphasis.
Possible Answers
She gets her nails done every week.
Meaning:
Someone else does her nails, but she arranges for it to happen. This is similar in
meaning to the passive voice (Her nails are done every week) but there is more
emphasis on her involvement in the process.
Does she do her own nails? (no)
Does someone else do them (yes)
Does she arrange for this? Make the appointment? Pay for it? (yes)
Form
Causitive get. Get can be replaced by have and this is slightly more formal.
Subject + get + object + past participle.
Pronunciation
No major problems.
If/ When + Subject + verb in present simple, subject + verb in present simple
Pronunciation
I have cant be contracted here as its a main verb.