CELTA, LANGUAGE SKILLS
Assignment Two: Language Related Tasks
1) I'm moving out of my apartment.
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Look at the sentence and then tick the statements which have the same form and meaning as the part which is underlined.
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She's having her hair cut at 3 o'clock this afternoon
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Abdullah's working in Qatar at the moment
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We're picking him up from the airport at 11pm.
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Josie's always worrying about something.
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Tick the statements/ concept questions which apply to the part of the sentence underlined in (1)
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It's talking about the future. CCQ: It is talking about the past, present or future? Future.
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It's talking about now. CCQ: It is talking about the past, present or future? Present
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It's an arrangement. CCQ: It is an arrangement? Yes
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It happens regularly CCQ: Does it happen regularly? No
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Tick the summary of phonological features that is true for sentence (1).
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Stress on the first syllable of "moving, contraction of "I am" to "I'm"
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Stress on "I" and the first and second syllables of `moving'
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No problems.
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Tick the analysis of form which matches the structure in sentence (1)
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Subject + am/is/are + present continuous
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Subject + verb + ing
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Subject + am/is/are + verb + ing
References
Encarta.msn.com
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Practical English Usage, p189, Michael Swan, Oxford 3rd Edition, 2005
2) He feels annoyed with Joe for being so late.
a. Tick the statements of meaning/ concept questions which apply to the part of the sentence underlined in (2)
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He was very angry CCQ: Was he angry? Yes A little or very? Very
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He was a little angry CCQ: Was he angry? Yes A little or very? A little
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It happened in the past CCQ: Are we talking about the past, present or future? Past
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Something made him angry CCQ; Did something make him angry? Yes
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It happened...
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