English for Specific Purposes

Lesson 10Text Completion 1 and

Midterm review

Quiz preparation• Pass in your homework• On the next slide are the

answers. Use your book and the answers to review for the quiz for 4 minutes.

• PLEASE ask me questions if you don’t understand

Quiz

Verb tense 2Past simple (過去形 )

vs.

Past continuous (過去進行形 )

Past simple vs. continuous• Page 28• Read the information in

the gray boxes• Try questions 5-8• Check

Grammar strategy• Looking for clues• Page 29, Part A: Choose

Present or Past• Part C

Practice• Page 32

Verb tense 3• Page 104, Part 1A

Future events can be done with:

1. will + base verb

2. be going to + base verb

3. am/is/are + verb+ -ing

Practice: Page 104, Part 1B

Perfect tense• Page 105, Part 2A: read the

boxes• Part 2B

Practice• Page 106• Page 107

Strategies

1. Decide if the question is a VOCABULARY or GRAMMAR question

StrategiesVocabulary:

a. Guess the meaning if you can, and find the word with the same meaning

b. If not, try each word, boldly eliminating wrong answers

StrategiesGrammar:

a. Look for CLUES about:– the part of speech– the correct tense– subject vs. object (he/him)– special clues

StrategiesIC & TC: Spend 30 SECONDS

OR LESS per question.

TC: Only read the sentences that have questions in them.

Pages to studyPages 24-5: parts of speech

Pages 28-29: present and past tenses

Page 99: noun/verb suffixes

Pages 104-105: future and perfect tenses

Page 138-139: Pronouns

Also…All of your homework (old

and new)

For practice questions with explanations:

http://www.englishclub.com/esl-exams/ets-toeic-practice-5.htm

http://www.englishclub.com/esl-exams/ets-toeic-practice-6.htm