What a language course can do James CookFill the gaps with the correct tenses. 1.

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What a language course can do

Fill the gaps with the correct tenses.

1. I have been learningaction that started in the past and is still going on now,

emphasis is put on the duration (signal word: for seven years) - Present Perfect Progressive English for seven years now.
2.

ut last year I was not wor!ing hard enough for English, that"s why my mar!s were not1st verb: you can either use past progressive or simple past. a) #ast #rogressive: puts emphasis on the duration b) $imple #ast: puts emphasis on the fact 2nd verb: a fact in the past - Simple Past. really that good then. study'st verb: situation in the present - Simple Present (after "want" use "to" ( infinitive) )nd verb: decision made for the future - Future I going to. harder this term.

3. %s I want to pass my English e&am successfully ne&t year, I am going to

4. *uring my last summer holidays, my parents sentcompleted action in the past

- Simple Past

me on a language course to +ondon.

5. It was great and I thin! I have learned'st verb: fact in the past - Simple Past

)nd verb: situation in the present - Simple Present ,rd verb: finished action that has an influence on the present. emphasis is on the result - Present Perfect Simple a lot.
6.

efore I went to +ondon, I had not en-oyed'st verb: action in the past - Simple Past )nd verb: action ta!ing place before that certain time in the past (signal word: before) - Past Perfect. learning English. ut while I was doing the language course, I met'st verb: action ta!ing place only for a certain period in the past - Past Progressive )nd verb: short actions in the past ta!ing place in the middle of another action - Simple Past. lots of young people from all over the world. Past )nd verb: general fact that is true for the present - Simple Present foreign languages nowadays. the present - Simple Present )nd verb: situation in the past - Simple Past moment) - Present Progressive

7.

8. .here I noticed how important it is'st verb: observation in the past - Simple

to spea!

9. /ow I have much more fun learning English than I had'st verb: situation in

before the course.

10. %t the moment I am revisingaction happening around now (signal word: at the

English grammar.

11. %nd I have already begunaction that has -ust started (signal word: already),

emphasis is put on the fact (not the duration) - Present Perfect Simple read the te&ts in my English te&tboo!s again.
12. I thin! I will do'st verb: feeling in the present - Simple Present

to

)nd verb: assumption with regard to the future (signal word: I thin!) - Future I will one unit every wee!.
13. 0y e&am is on '1 0ay, so there is not'st verb: the e&act date for the e&am is

already scheduled - Simple Present. )nd verb: idiomatic e&pression any time to be lost.
14. If I pass my e&ams successfully, I will startdonditional sentence type I: if (

$imple #resent, Future I will

an apprenticeship in $eptember. bac! to +ondon to wor! there for a while.

15. %nd after my apprenticeship, maybe I will goassumption 2 dream for the

futureermutung - Future I mit will.

'3. %s you can see, I have become'st verb: situation in the present - Simple

Present (after "can" use the infinitive without "to") )nd verb: situation from the past to the present, emphasis is put on the fact Present Perfect Simple a real +ondon fan already.