Index

Objectives Objectives

Reading Reading Comprehension

Vocabulary Practice 1

Listening Listening ComprehensionPractice 2

Grammar GrammarPractice 3Practice 4Asking for Corroboration of your ideas: Tag Questions with "be"Tag Questions with "be"Tag Questions with "be"Tag Questions with "be"Practice 5Practice 6

PronunciationPrimary and Secondary stress markings.Practice 8Practice 9Practice 10

Writing Composing an articleThe Layout of an ArticleThe Layout of an ArticlePractice 11Practice 12Writing Assignment

Help Index

Objectives

It was a first-class performance, wasn’t it?

FunctionsObjectives

Adding emphasis

Looking for corroboration

Responding to opinions

Use DO/DOES in the affirmative to show emphasis

Use Tag Questions with ‘be’ in different tenses.

Use short answers and expressions of agreement/disagreement

Write a newspaper article

Objectives

It was a first-class performance, wasn’t it?

FunctionsObjectives

Adding emphasis

Looking for corroboration

Responding to opinions

Use DO/DOES in the affirmative to show emphasis

Use Tag Questions with ‘be’ in different tenses.

Use short answers and expressions of agreement/disagreement

Write a newspaper article

Listening Comprehension

Grammar

In this unit, we will practice two important functions that have to do with clarifying your position bout a given (any) topic and that of those you’re communicating with. These functions are: a) adding emphasis to something you say and b) looking for corroboration about something you say. These functions need specific grammar and structures that you will learn in the following grammar sections. We will learn to add emphasis and to use tag questions to get corroboration of your ideas in the tenses we have learned so far: simple present and present progressive, simple past and present perfect and present perfect progressive.

1. Adding Emphasis: using DO/DOES in the affirmative (picture of a person thinking)

Adding emphasis means that you are calling the attention to a specific fact that interests you or your audience, we do so by using of DO/DOES in the affirmative:

…We do have very good local talent, which can contribute to the culture of our town, but I do think that we should be less ambitious with grand-scale productions…

These are the opinions of our news correspondent Jack Sokemgood. He is talking in first person, because he is giving his own views about a particular topic. If we wanted to change to another person, who will in turn talk about Jack’s ideas, we sould have the following:

…Jack Sokemgood does think * that we should be less ambitious with grand-scale productions…

Here are more examples:

I do think you can do the job = I have no doubt you can do the job

Or with a Third Person Singular:

The teacher does think * you can do the job = She has no doubt you can do the job