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Grammar - The Present Perfect Continuous, The Past Perfect Continuous, and The Gerund vs. The Infinitive

15 Novembro 2017, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today in class, students learned about:

  • The Present Perfect Continuous
  • The Past Perfect Continuous
  • The Gerund vs. The Infinitive
Homework:
  • please do the respective sections in the grammar books as outlined in the coursebook;
  • please do the following exercises as soon as possible:
    • verb tense exercises 7 - 17: 
      • https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
    • gerund vs. infinitive exercises (all 30 of them):
      • https://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/index.htm
Students who missed class should also go through the Power Points they missed today (which they already have) and should study closely the lists provided by the links embedded in the slides.

Next class: due to the size of the class, another date has been added to the calendar for the oral presentations and the speaking workshop has been brought back.  So the speaking workshop will be next class!

Kavitha and Mustafa

15 Novembro 2017, 10:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Reading and discussion of the short story “Kavitha and Mustafa”.

The Present Perfect and the Past Perfect

13 Novembro 2017, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students today learned about the Present Perfect and the Past Perfect.

All students should do the respective homework from the grammar books as stipulated in the course book and do the following englishpage.com exercises:

Next class:

  • students will be learning the presente perfect continuous and the past perfect continuous - and possibly the gerund and the infinitive.

Grammar Review

13 Novembro 2017, 10:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

Grammar review:

The progressive forms of modal auxiliaries.

Midterm Test - Written

8 Novembro 2017, 12:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students carried out their midterm test (written).