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Tenses: Past Tense Present Tense Future Tense

The document discusses different tenses in English grammar including past, present, and future tenses. It focuses on the simple present tense, explaining its use to express facts and habits. Examples are provided to demonstrate its use with "to be" verbs and regular verbs. The present continuous tense is then introduced along with examples of how to transform sentences from the simple present to the present continuous. Practice exercises follow for readers to change sentences into the present continuous and identify facts versus what is currently happening.
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Tenses: Past Tense Present Tense Future Tense

The document discusses different tenses in English grammar including past, present, and future tenses. It focuses on the simple present tense, explaining its use to express facts and habits. Examples are provided to demonstrate its use with "to be" verbs and regular verbs. The present continuous tense is then introduced along with examples of how to transform sentences from the simple present to the present continuous. Practice exercises follow for readers to change sentences into the present continuous and identify facts versus what is currently happening.
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LESSON 20

Grammar : TENSES

Past Tense Present Tense Future Tense

1. Simple ........... 1. Simple ........... 1. Simple ...........


2. ........... Continuous Tense 2. ........... Continuous Tense 2. ........... Continuous Tense
3. ....... Perfect Tense 3. ....... Perfect Tense 3. ....... Perfect Tense
4. ........Perfect Continuous Tense 4. ........Perfect Continuous Tense 4. ........Perfect Continuous Tense

THE SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE

1. With Tobe : I am a teacher


(nominal sentence) I am not a teacher
am I a teacher?

2. With Verb : I teach He teaches


(verbal sentence) I DON’T teach He DOESN’T teach
DO I teach? DOES he teach?

You have a book He has (haves) a book


You DONT have a book He DOESN’T have a book
DO you have a book? DOES he have a book?

Kapan kita menggunakan pola kalimat ini? Tentu saja untuk waktu sekarang dengan ketentuan
sbb.

1. Menyatakan Fakta (expressing facts)


contoh : my name is Ali

2. Menyatakan kebiasaan (expressing habits)


contoh : I smoke, I go to school every day, I always go to school by bus

Review 2 : DON’T and DOESN’T

A. I, You, We, They --> don’t


B. He, She, It --> doesn’t

YES NO
hamburgers donats
bananas oranges
bread spaghetti
fried chicken hotdogs
sate gado-gado

Using : LIKE, WANT, EAT, HAVE


Section 1 : THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

Jack and Jill


Joe

Charles
Alice

Practice 1 : Always use Personal Pronouns

1. is today Monday? 11. what is Alice doing?


2. what day is today? 12. Are Jack and Jill singing?
3. do people go to work? 13. are they standing?
4. are they in the office? 14. what are they doing?
5. where are they? 15. are you reading?
6. are they working? 16. what are you doing?
7. are they relaxing?
8. is Joe reading?
9. what is Joe doing?
10. Is Alice talking?

The Present Continuous : S + Tobe + Verb/ing ---> I am teaching

Practice 2 : Transform into The Present Continuous Tense

T : I speak
S : I am speaking
T : He speaks
S : He is speaking

1. I smoke 6. She plays


2. He smokes 7. The students sing
3. You learn 8. The student sings
4. He learns 9. Our brother works
5. They play 10. Our brothers work

Practice 3 : Facts and What is happening

T : drink milk
S : I drink milk, but I am not drinking milk now

1. drink coffee 6. eat Hamburgers


2. smoke 7. practice English
3. work 8. swim every day
4. learn English 9. go to office every day
5. speak English 10. read books
Practice 4 : Facts and What is happening

T : drink milk
S : John drinks milk but He is NOT drinking milk now

1. drinks coffee 6. eats Hamburgers


2. smokes 7. practices English
3. works 8. swims every day
4. learns English 9. goes to office every day
5. speaks English 10. reads books

Practice 5 :

SKY DIVING

An interesting new sport in the United States is sky diving. People who like this sport often form a club.
The members of the club get into airplanes and fly high above the clouds. When it is time, each person
jumps from the airplane and falls toward the earth at a very high speed. All of the members have
parachutes but they do not open the parachutes for a long time

From the ground they look like big birds. The sky divers say that they sometimes feel like birds also.
Some people like to swim in the ocean or to play in the snow, but the favorite place for sky divers is the
sky

Pertanyaan dari peserta tentang Conversation yang kita pelajari ..

CONVERSATION

1. Structural Conversations
2 Functional Conversations
3. Situational Conversations

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