«Learn English Tenses with Pleasure»

National Technical University

«Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute»

Social Technologies and Humanities Faculty

Intelligent Computer Systems Department

P R E S E N T

Kharkiv – 2017

(DISTANCE COURSE)

The authors and tutors of this distance course

are:

Tatyana Bratus

PhD in Philology, Intelligent Computer Systems Department

Sergey Nikonorov

Senior lecturer, Intelligent Computer Systems Department

COURSE GOALSLearn English Tenses with Pleasure is a course that has been created for students of English as a foreign or second language, who already have basic knowledge of English. THE AIM OF THE COURSE is to make learning tenses effective and entertaining.

AFTER COMPLETING THIS COURSE STUDENTS WILL

learn the grammar structures of the English tenses within a short time

solidify the grammar rules working with the audio, video and text materials

use the gain knowledge in written and oral communication

COURSE STRUCTURE 1 Lesson 1. Present Simple. In this lesson you will learn how to express every day routines and repeated actions, describe laws of nature, timetables, tell stories, do reviews in present.

Lesson 3. Present Perfect. In this lesson you will learn how to describe an action how to describe an action which has recently finished and whose result you can see in the present.

Lesson 4. Present Perfect Continuous. In this lesson you will learn how to describe a long action which started in the past and continues up to the present.

Lesson 2. Present Continuous. In this lesson you will learn how to describe actions at the moment of speech, describe temporary actions, express irritation, describe actions that we have already agreed to do in the near future, describe changing or developing situations.

COURSE STRUCTURE 2 Lesson 5. Past Simple. In this lesson you will learn how to describe an action which happened at a definite time in the past.

Lesson 6. Past Continuous. In this lesson you will learn how to describe an action which was in progress at a stated time in the past; you will also learn how to describe the atmosphere in the introduction to a story before you describe the main events.

Lesson 7. Past Perfect. In this lesson you will learn how to learn how to describe an action which happened before another past action or before a stated time in the past and whose result was visible in the past.

Lesson 8. Past Perfect Continuous. In this lesson you will learn how to emphasize the duration of an action which started and finished in the past before another past action; how to describe an action which lasted for some time in the past and whose result was visible in the past..

COURSE STRUCTURE 3 Lesson 9. Future Simple. In this lesson you will learn how to express predictions, promises, threats, warnings, hopes and requests, on-the-spot decisions and offers.

Lesson 10. Future Continuous. In this lesson you will learn how to express an action which will be in progress at a stated future time; how to ask politely about someone’s plans for the near future.

Lesson 11. Future Perfect. In this lesson you will learn how to describe an action which will be finished before a stated future time.

Lesson 12. Future Perfect Continuous. In this lesson you will learn how to emphasize the duration of an action up to a certain time in the future

Recommendations for working with the distance learning

course

When you first log in a distance course it is recommended to enter your email address (e-mail). You do this to have a chance to get notifications of all events you are interested in and to communicate with the teacher and students. To master the working plan for a week, for example Week 2 (you should take one lesson per week), you are recommended to go through the procedures according to the working plan for a week.FORUM Every lesson has got a Forum. You can discuss the problems you have, while doing the lesson  and  get the tutor’s answers to your questions. Best students’ works are going to be upload in the Forum.YOUR RATING Your maximum points is 100 for each lesson and 1200 for the whole course.

Recommendations for working with the distance learning course

Working plan for week 2Day Tasks What you do Maximum points

Day 1 Study the grammar rules and listen to the audio of the lesson.

Put the verbs into the correct form.

10

Day 2 Watch the video of the lesson. Write out the Present Continuous forms and send us in the PDF format.

10

Day 3, 4, 5

Learn the grammar and do the exercises.

Do 2.1 Present Continuous ExerciseDo 2.2 Present Continuous ExerciseDo 2.3 Present Continuous ExerciseDo 2.4 Present Continuous ExerciseDo 2.5 Present Continuous Exercise Do 2.6 Present Continuous Exercise Do 2.7 Present Continuous Exercise

50

Day 6 Look at the diary and correct the sentences. Write about your plans for the coming week.

Do 2.1 Present Continuous Creative Writing

10

Day 7 Listen to 2.1 Present Continuous Song

Do 2.1 Present Continuous Song Exercise

10

Any Taking part in the Forum. Write a report about your work this week

10

STUDENTS’ WORK IN THE COURSE

Studying the theory of the lesson

Listening to the audio materials

Watching the video materials

Doing various exercises ofdifferent level of complexity

Doing creative assignments

TYPES OF ASSIGNMENTS 1Here you can see the example of Grammar Section:

Here you can see Present Continuous Exercises

To make our course more entertaining, we suggest that you work with audio and video materials:

Evaluation TableAssignments Maximum pointsStudying the grammar rules and listening to the audio of the lesson

10

Watching the video of the lesson 10

Doing the exercises 50

Doing Creative Writing Exercise 10

Listening to the Song and doing the Song Exercise

10

Taking part in the Forum. 10

Total for one week 100

Total for the course 100x12 1200

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

OUR COURSE REFERENCE:

http://dl.khpi.edu.ua/course/view.php?id=154