This task focuses on presenting both the form and the use of a new grammar point.
Read the passage opposite, Form and Use, and then do the task in pairs.
In the twelve presentations in Task3: Let me count the ways …, the form and the use were both presented. But which use of the present perfect tense was presented in each one?
Complete the table below with the use of the present perfect which was presented in each case. Two examples are done for you.
| Form and Use
When we present a new grammar point to learners, it is useful to present two different aspects: its form and its use.
Form means the grammatical form of an item and the rules for it. For examples, does a word have an s at the end? When do we add an –ed to the end of a verb and when not? What is the word order of a question? When do you use do and when do you use did in a question?
Use deals with context. When or where is an item used? To discover the use of an item, ask yourself, in which situation is an item used in natural communication? For example, one use of the present simple tense is for describing actions that people do every day (I get up at 7.30), so in your presentation for the present simple tense you might include a natural situation where a person is telling someone else what they do every day, such as a learner writing to a new penfriend, telling her about a typical day at his school.
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