4VWO English: Unit 1 Grammar

4VWO English: Grammar Review 1

Making questions

Making negative sentences

Past simple and present perfect

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4VWO English: Grammar Review 1

Making questions

Making negative sentences

Past simple and present perfect

20 minutes: reading time

25 minutes: grammar review

Fill in the blanks: making questions

Coping with their mood swings (What are...)

What are teenagers coping with?

Helping them to manage their emotions (Do parents...)

Do parents help teenagers to manage their emotions?

Helping them to deal with their body image and feel confident. (How can parents...)

How can parents help teenagers to deal with their body image and feel confident?

coping
help
to deal with
dealing with
to cope
helping

Making negative sentences: examples

Past simple and present perfect

How to tell that a sentence is in the present perfect tense?

Past simple and present perfect

How to tell that a sentence is in the present perfect tense?


-- describes a link / relationship between the past and the present.

For example:

  • Something that happened in the past and STILL happens now

  • A past event that has consequences for the present


Past simple and present perfect

Examples:

  • "I loved the smell of the grass on the football field." --> past simple

  • "I have always loved the smell of the grass on the football field." --> present perfect (speaker still loves it)


Past simple or present perfect?

Past simple: Yesterday I found a rare coin in my back garden.

Present perfect: I haven't been told how to do this job yet.

Past simple
Present perfect

Past simple or present perfect?

Present perfect: We have known each other for ten years.

Past simple: I once knew a man who thought he was Jesus.

Present perfect
Past simple

Vocabulary: fill in the blanks

His opinions are quite moderate now, but in his younger days he had some radical views.

The passengers didn't feel safe due to the bus driver's reckless driving. If his boss finds out that he has been driving like this there could be serious repercussions.

Someone had the great ideas of fusing Italian and Scottish cuisine by inventing deep-fried pizzas.

The problem with this manual is that there is too much ambiguity in the instructions.

If you want to convince me that your story is true you will need to substantiate your claims more clearly.

They started the season strongly but more recently the quality of their performances have fluctuated.

The purpose of this workshop is to amplify the voices of people from marginalised communities.

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