This document provides information about using the verb "be" to express greetings, personal details, and questions. It discusses forms of the verb be including affirmative statements, contractions, negatives, and yes/no questions. Key information questions use who, what, where, and how old. Possessive adjectives like my, your, his, her, our, their are also covered.
A great e-book to help develop your basic English language skills, especially if you are a student, working professional, job-seeker.
This e-book covers the following important topics:
- Parts of speech.
- Punctuation.
- Commonly confused words and phrases.
- Tips for filling in a college registration form.
- Learning how to summarise.
- Tips for completing written assignments.
- How to answer exam questions.
- How to write a cover letter when applying for a job.
- How to write a resignation letter.
- How to write e-mails.
A great e-book to help develop your basic English language skills, especially if you are a student, working professional, job-seeker.
This e-book covers the following important topics:
- Parts of speech.
- Punctuation.
- Commonly confused words and phrases.
- Tips for filling in a college registration form.
- Learning how to summarise.
- Tips for completing written assignments.
- How to answer exam questions.
- How to write a cover letter when applying for a job.
- How to write a resignation letter.
- How to write e-mails.
Mastering the verb TO BE implies an understanding of its structure, its function and its meaning in communication. Unfortunately, in the Venezuelan school system, empirical evidence seems to suggest that, when teaching the verb Presentation offered at the firt webinar organized by VenTESOL and Avealmec. October 26, 2013, 10:00 am
Mastering the verb TO BE implies an understanding of its structure, its function and its meaning in communication. Unfortunately, in the Venezuelan school system, empirical evidence seems to suggest that, when teaching the verb TO BE, most teachers focus only on its syntax through a mechanical process, having as a result,
a limited vision of this linguistic unit. Based on this situation, this webinar provides English teachers with a Critical Thinking (CT) approach to, on the one hand, enhance the comprehension of the pragmatics and semantics of the verb TO BE and, on the other, to teach it from a different perspective. First, a contextualization of the pragmatics and semantics of the verb TO BE will be provided. Second, a brief dissertation of the CT theory will be offered. Third, CT will be used as an approach to teach the functions and meanings of the verb TO BE. Fourth, a series of exercises that can be applied in class will be suggested.
Past Participle and Present Progressive Participle adjectives.
There is a speaking activity, as well as a fill in the blanks activity.
There is also a list of examples for both forms of adjectives.
Mastering the verb TO BE implies an understanding of its structure, its function and its meaning in communication. Unfortunately, in the Venezuelan school system, empirical evidence seems to suggest that, when teaching the verb Presentation offered at the firt webinar organized by VenTESOL and Avealmec. October 26, 2013, 10:00 am
Mastering the verb TO BE implies an understanding of its structure, its function and its meaning in communication. Unfortunately, in the Venezuelan school system, empirical evidence seems to suggest that, when teaching the verb TO BE, most teachers focus only on its syntax through a mechanical process, having as a result,
a limited vision of this linguistic unit. Based on this situation, this webinar provides English teachers with a Critical Thinking (CT) approach to, on the one hand, enhance the comprehension of the pragmatics and semantics of the verb TO BE and, on the other, to teach it from a different perspective. First, a contextualization of the pragmatics and semantics of the verb TO BE will be provided. Second, a brief dissertation of the CT theory will be offered. Third, CT will be used as an approach to teach the functions and meanings of the verb TO BE. Fourth, a series of exercises that can be applied in class will be suggested.
Past Participle and Present Progressive Participle adjectives.
There is a speaking activity, as well as a fill in the blanks activity.
There is also a list of examples for both forms of adjectives.
English for Handling Ticket Officer, the book you are reading, is one of the textbooks containing course materials arranged by Rifki Amin and Hari Suci Sulistiawati who learn at The School of Post Graduate Prof. Dr. HAMKA Jakarta. The arrangement of these course materials has been done as one of the attempts to fulfill the needs of the textbook containing course materials which go along with the need analysis of the related course.
In addition, these well arranged course material could also be perceived as the actualization of English for Academic Purposes. The writers wish to acknowledge their colleagues in English study program, The School of Post Graduate Prof. Dr. HAMKA Jakarta in particular Dr. Santi Chairani Djonhar, MA, who has been very helpful to support and guide them in finishing this book.
English for Handling Ticket Officer is a book that can be used by the tourism officer in ticketing area, and it can be used also by the students of vocational high school. It can help the officers and the students to study English easier. English for Travel Agent covers some English lesson that adapted from tourism lesson book and other.
This book is provided by four skills (Listening, reading, speaking and writing) and also language focus. Here, you can find some conversation, reading texts, listening items and of course writing item that you can do in individual, in pairs or group. Then you can get some grammar focus like the expressing of greeting, introducing, suggestion, etc and the tenses like past tense, present continuous tense and also pronunciation. Beside the task, you can also meet the progress check for checking your progress in English.
Hopefully, these well arranged course materials would be very much beneficial and become additional wealth of English for Handling Ticket Officer textbook for those who teach it as well as who learn it, despite all the weakness which are likely found in this textbook.
January 2014
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Grammar Bank. It includes english grammar notes and activities which learners can find practical. It uses simple language to present grammar rules and also provides some exercises to reinforce the points.
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Verb be
1. MAIN AIM: To express greetings, farewells, and personal information from yourself and others.
The Verb Be
INFORMATION QUESTIONS WITH BE:
•Use Who to ask about people, What to ask about things, Where to ask about places, and How old to ask about age.
Singular nouns Plural nouns
Who’s your teacher? Who are the new students?
What’s your name? What are their names?
Where is your father from? Where are your classmates from?
How old is your sister? How old are your children?
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
I = my My dog is black and white
You = your Your house is wonderful and huge
He = his His sweater is nice
She = her Her career is very demanding
It = its its fur is thick
We = our our university is interesting
They = their their car is a Volvo
Remember:
WHO = People
WHAT= Things, objects
WHERE= Place
HOW OLD = Age
2. Use the verb be to give information about the subject of a sentence. The subject of a sentence can be a noun or a pronoun
The teacher is Japanese. We’re Peruvian
(noun) (Adjective) (pronoun) (adjective)
Verb be: Forms
Affirmative statements
There are three forms of the verb be in the present tense: AM, ARE and IS.
I am a student We are married
Your are Carlos They are Canadian.
He
She is in the room
It
Contracted forms
In speaking and informal writing, contract be with subject nouns and pronouns.
I am a student = I’m a student. He is in the room = he’s in the room.
You are late = you’re late Peter is a singer = Peter’s a singer.
Negative contractions
There are two ways to contract in negative sentences.
He’s not Brazilian = He isn’t Brazilian They’re not teachers = they aren’t teachers.
*There’s only one kind of negative contraction for I am not: I’m not.
3. Verb be: Yes/no questions; affirmative and negative short answers
It’s common to answer yes/no questions with short answers, don’t use contractions with affirmative short answers.
YES / NO QUESTION AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE
Are you a salesperson? Yes, I am. No I’m not.
Is he Italian? Yes, he is. No, he’s not / he isn’t
Are they students? Yes, they are. No, they’re not / they aren’t
KEY WORDS:
Good morning
Good afternoon
Goog evening
Good night
Hello
Hi
Bye
Good bye
See you later
See you soon
See you tomorrow