Back on form!
Hi Taru. A very quick word about your previous post from Wednesday – I think we’ve all seen that you have a lot on your plate so I think it’s normal that you have had less time for blogging recently. Don’t worry, it’s good to see you back on form with your latest post. By the way, how do we spell the month after June and before August??? And the illness you have which makes you tired??
One more thing, I promised to tell you my dream destination (not my misery place….!) although the idea of a nightmare destination is also quite intriguing. That will be in my next post.
To have a lot on your plate – to be very busy
To be on form – you are ‘on form’ if you are feeling or performing well
Intriguing – something which fascinates you, often because it is a bit unusual
Today I’m going to set two separate tasks. Taru generally uses verb tenses very well, so the first, and easier task, is to identify four different verb tenses in her post and give an example with the name of the tense.
For example, in the second line she writes:
‘…when I do my studies in pedagogic studies and write this blog.’
These are both examples of the Present Simple, used here to describe something which is routine or habitual. For the more advanced bloggers out there, can you find a mistake with the Present Perfect?
For the second task, we come back to our old friends – Prepositions! Look for the following words and phrases in the text:
concentrate
divide
organized situations
internet
contact
time to time
looking
There is something wrong either before or after these words and phrases. Can you spot the problems and write the correct version?
Taru, what you have written is very thought-provoking. As a teacher, I’m constantly asking myself how new technology-driven learning strategies can be used in formal teaching. As I said earlier in the month, I have used blogs with my classes before and many students found it really motivating and stimulating, although some did not really take to it. Everyone has different learning styles, so what works for one student may not work for another. I’m currently doing a kind of experiment with my class – I’m using a WIKI (a collaborative website – watch out for a definition soon on ‘Keep your English up to date’). The idea is to get the whole class involved in creating their own learning ‘space’ – have a look if you want to get an idea of what I mean. I think the whole social networking phenomenon is important, especially for younger students. If we accept the fact that people are spending more and more time on this type of website or using more advanced applications on their phones, how can educators actually get them to use some of this time for learning? Oh dear, seems like I’ve been going on a bit too long again, time to get off my soapbox!
In my next post I’ll tell you about my day at Wimbledon and my dream destination. Have a great weekend!
Comments
Jim! JULY! I wondered why word had red underline. :-) Rest of the task later.
Hi Jim! I do not envy you at all. My choice would be to folow somebody stepping up and up with the hope to see the sky rather than a risky jungle-net lost..-concentrated on, divided in, in orgenized situations, on the internet, contact with, by looking, from time to time - ..courses which are useful and are related to.. mistaken present simple - When I have read these theories and tried to apply them to practice I realized that actually I am doing it here. present perfect twice, past simple and present continuous - Learning fascinates me from time to time..present simple as the fact about her; but I am unhappy with explaining the grammar and became really tired of that. Have a great relax!
Hi JIm Good home work. usually I read only the teachers blog.You made me read Taru's recent blog. I understand why you asked us to find out the mistakes then only we could avoid mistakes. I do not know whether I have done it correctly. but I tried. see the answers.When I read these theories and try to apply them to practice, I realize that actually I am doing it here. The studies are mostly concentrated into the adult education,It can be divided into three parts,Nor-formal learning happens in organizations according to some kind of leading, It happens at work, home, hobbies, shops, banks, busses, schools and through internet’, contact with the people around the world,Learning has fascinated me from time to time, It is like looking through the window
Hi again! I am stupid, now I am reading your game blog and there is this ´When´ sentence which I completly made for a deseaster..should be a present simple three times - When I read and try I realize .. actually stupid one! Write please soon the correction!
Hello, Jim! Practising grammar is not my cup of tea, but I’ll do the homework anyway. Concentrate on, divide up into, in organized situations, on the internet, in contact with, from time to time, looking through the window. “When I have read these theories and tried to apply them to practice I realized that I’m actually doing it here.” Taru used the Present Perfect here because she had read these theories at some indefinite time in the past and then she knew everything about them. This is how she showed the connection between the past and the present. The result of the action from the past can be seen in the present. I think that she used the Present Continuous at the and of the sentence because she had realized that every time she was blogging or reading the teachers blog or using the BBC site, she learnt English. It’s the tense which is used for the actions in the progress, for example, for the actions which are happening over the period of the time or at the moment of speaking. This was a tough task to complete. I don’t won’t to think of the myriad of my own mistakes. Taru also used the modal verb will to express the future. “And now I will come to the most interesting part.” It looks like a promise coming from the writer. I think that there is more than one tense in English for expressing future. Now I have to reflect upon the meaning of a Wiki and see how to use the site for which you gave the link.
I have got some homework from professor Jim, who can’t stand his student having a weekend boogie night.-present simple 1) he’s always gearing up for marking his student’s work with all sort of colourful and gaudy pens, and he’ll be hacked off If we won’t hand them in on time.-future 2) I am racking my brains to find the good answers,-present continuous 3) and I think I’ve done it.-present perfect.) Jim always thinks we are bone idle and can’t be bothered to do his homework, but I really hope I’m the exception that proves the rule.4)Arrrrrrrr…the deadline for the homework was last Friday.-past simple. What shall I do? I’m sure he will be sick and tired of my poor excuses and he won’t talk with me, even very simple small talk. 1)concentrate ON 2)divide INTO 3)IN organized situations 4)ON THE internet 5)contact WITH 6)FROM time to time 7)looking INTO Lastly, finding a mistake with the Present Perfect The answer, I think, is you have to reflect what you have actually seen … A huge thanks for your intriguing entries, and have a marvellous day!
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