Exemple essay

Outline

Past Perfect Continuous

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Perfect tenses are used whenever we are talking about a point in time before another point in time.

Past Perfect Use for an action that happened in the past before another action. e.g. - I had already eaten breakfast when my brother arrived.

Present Perfect Use for an action that happened in the past before the present moment. e.g. - I have already eaten breakfast.

Future Perfect Use for an action that will happen in the future before another action. e.g. - I will have already eaten breakfast by the time my brothers arrives.

 

Present Perfect Continuous

Theory
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Perfect or continuous

Advantages and disadvantages

Here you have some valuable exercices on advantages and disadvatages.

Exemplification

Structure

Unit 0 Revision

Important expresions for you to use in your essay.

To be nervous about
At one time or another
to take a gap year
It doesn't sound very exciting
huge oral exam
Actually
I haven't seen much of _____________lately
I'd better go
I'll see you around



Present simple links

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/prestensum.html

Use the present simple to tell what happens in this film in a more dramatic way

Or here you have another go.




Create a comic strip and use simple present, present continuous, simple past, past continuous and past perfect.

Stative  Verbs

Telling an anecdote

Here are some phrases you can use to introduce an anecdote:

Did I ever tell you about the time I………?

Have I ever mentioned the time when I….?

I’ll never forget the time I……?

Funny you should say that.  Have I told you about the time I……..?

Talking about / of …………, that reminds me of the time I …………..?

Setting the context

t’s quite a few years ago now 

I was on my way to (place) to (verb)…. , when….

Do you know .(person or place)?  Well, we were

I’m not sure if you know ….. but it’s …….. 

I’m sure you all know about….. /I’m sure you’ve all been to……

Adding emphasis

You’re not going to believe this, but…..

You should have heard / seen…….!

And the strangest thing / funniest thing / best thing / worst thing was…..

I’ve never heard / seen such a ……. thing in my life…..

End it in a memorable way

nd then, to top it all,…..

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any better / worse / stranger, ……..happened

And, you’ll never guess what happened at the end, well……

However, sometimes we decide to end with a kind of explanation about what had happened:

Anyway, to cut a long story short,…..

So, in the end, what happened was………

Anyway, it turns out that…………

Taken from: http://britishenglishcoach.com/how-to-tell-anecdotes-in-english/

Unit 1 Fame

gerund and infinitive

1. Wh- word + to + infinitive

Online exercise 1

Addition Linkers

	.	In addition	,
		Additionally
		Furthermore
		What’s more
		Not only that
Main Clause				Clause

		as well	.
		too
Clause	Clause

	and
	as well as
	together with

                     

Not only		But also

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Present Perfect Continuous

Unit 2 Going Green

MODAL VERBS

EASY AND STEP BY STEP
MORE DIFFICULT BUT STEP BY STEP 
MORE DIFFICULT BUT STEP BY STEP 2
EASY MIXED 1
EASY MIXED 2
EASY MIXED 3
MIXED EXERCISES 1

 

Multiple choice Cloze

Unit 3 Online World

Link to passive exercises

Reality TV

Reading text
Gapped text
Conversation

Linkers

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Purpose, reason and resut clauses

Cause

As	it is late	,	we should go home.		We should go home	as	it’s late.
Since						since
Because						because
Seeing that						seeing that
	subordinate clause.	,	main clause		main clause		subordinate clause
COMPLEX SENTENCE					COMPLEX SENTENCE

These indicate the reason or cause of something. Because is an adjunct and seeing that is informal.

We never see Harry these days	,	for	he has grown fat and lazy
main clause	,	for	subordinate clause
COMPLEX SENTENCE

Because of	the weather	,	we stayed at home.		We stayed at home	because of	the weather
on account of						on account of
owing to						owing to
due to						due to
	noun phrase	,	main clause		main clause		noun phrase
COMPLEX SENTENCE					COMPLEX SENTENCE

Consequence

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Online exercise 1

Unit 4 Sense It

Passive Voice

Prezzi Presentation

Main Link

Unit 5 Families

Wedding and divorce vocabulary

Unit 6 A Good Buy