DEFINING /DESCRIBING COMPANIES

Cordillera Ceramics

• Basic levelObjectives:

LANGUAGE stating info about their jobs, their department or area, their skills, likes and dislikes.

Using…

GRAMMAR: Present SimpleTo refer to an action or event that takes place habitually. In the other

hand to remark habits, general realities, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes. Such uses are often accompanied by frequency adverbs and adverbial phrases such as always, sometimes, often, usually, from time to time, rarely and never

example• About Ceramic Tile Distributors Inverness• Hi I’m Martin Baker manager of CTD Inverness and with me are Will Fraser (assistant

manager) and Barry Shane (Senior customer advisor). Between us we have over 30 years’ experience in the local tiling industry (I know we all look so young!!) so you can be sure to get the best advice on your project from a friendly team.

•We work on the basis that if you take the time to come to our showroom then you deserve the best level of service we can give and there’s always a coffee on the go so you can take your time and plan your perfect tiling project.

Identify the use of simple present in the paragraph aboveIdentify the use of simple present in the paragraph above

Now the questions• we have over 30 years’ experience in the local

tiling industry

• We work on the basis that if you take the time to come to our showroom then you deserve the best level of service we can give and there’s always a coffee on the go so you can take your time and plan your perfect tiling project

CHOOSE THE CORRECT QUESTION

How much years of experience you have?

How long you work in tiling?

How many years of experience do you have?

ASVER & WASVER

• ASVER & WASVER are nmemotecnics for Yes/No and Information questions :

AUXILIARY ASVERS: SUBJECT

VER: VERB

• AUXILIARY+SUBJECT+VERBDO YOU SPEAK FRENCH?

DOES PEDRO PLAY BASKETBALL?

WASVER

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WH – HOW : what, where,

when, how often,

how long, which ,etc

WASVER

AUXLIARIESDO & DOES

SUBJECT: YOU, WE, MY MOM

VERB: ACTIONS

WASVER QUESTIONS

• WH + AUX + VERB ?

• What do you do?

• Where does your wife work?

• When do you watch TV?

• What kind of music does Montse like?

• How often do you go shopping?

Asver & Wasver about Cordillera

• ASVER WASVER

• 1______________? 1______________?

• 2______________? 2_____________?

• 3 ______________? 3_______________?

• 4 ______________? 4 ______________?

• 5_______________? 5 ______________?

REFERENCE

• PAGES 5 /6 ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR IN USE

• EGI CD: Exercises , Present 5

• Pages 8 /9 MARKET LEADER –COMPANIES

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