2015-05-20 Structure: present and past

Greg Malivuk
[email protected]
http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
---
WE WILL HAVE CLASS ON MONDAY MAY 25
(The MBTA will have a Sunday schedule that day.)
---
Activity Saturday: Whale Watching ($42), pay Natalia by today
---
Homework: p. 7 exercise 3 (find 10 mistakes)
1 Our teacher wants a profile (“want” is a non-action verb)
2 dictionary defines profile (general fact; it always defines “profile” this way)
3 Why does she want that?
4 my friends call me Pay-Ha (they do this regularly, all the time)
5 actually sound in German
6 I am studying English here
7 Maybe you are asking yourself (it’s not a question)
8 Why does he want to leave Miami (it is a question)
9 I come from Austria
10 because I always try to improve / because I am always trying to improve
(“always” is after “be” or the first helping verb, and before the main verb)
---
p. 12 - present tense review (with a partner)
part A
1 helps
2 is working (“these days” = now)
3 Do
4 understand
5 usually go
part B
1 ‘m looking for
2 think (= believe = non-action)
3 isn’t carrying / ‘s not carrying
4 need
5 see
6 ‘s standing
7 ‘s waiting
8 sounds
9 don’t believe
10 wants
part C
1 How are you doing these days? (“How do you do?” is formal, and doesn’t go with “these days”.)
2 we are not living / we don’t live
3 we’re expecting a baby
4 because it has good nicknames
5 How do those nicknames sound to you?
---
I see the window right now. It looks nice out right now. (non-action)
I am looking out the window. I am watching a man cross the street. (action)

I hear construction outside. It sounds noisy. (non-action)
I am listening to music. (action)

I smell food cooking. It smells delicious. (non-action)
I am smelling the food to make sure it’s not too peppery. (action)

I can taste the garlic. This food tastes garlicky. (non-action)
I am tasting the food to make sure it’s not too peppery. (action)

I feel unhappy. The room feels a little too cold. (non-action)
I am feeling in my pocket to find a quarter. (action)
---
p. 13-14 - do you know any of these couples in the pictures? What do you know?
(reading)
p. 15 part B (with a partner)
1 during (= at the same time)
2 after (she didn’t know he was Superman at the time he proposed)
3 after (she was in Paris at the time)
4
5
6
7
8
---
Homework: finish p. 15 part B AND p. 18-19 exercise 1