UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN UJLL 1053 English Grammar in Context Trimester 201101 Tutorial 1 Coursework Details Expressing

the Present: The Present Simple and Present Continuous, and Stative Verbs Coe, N. (2009). Oxford Living Grammar: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages 3-5. Page 122 No 01 Activities 1 and 2.

Tutorial 2 Expressing Past Time: The Past Simple and Past Continuous Tenses Expressing Future Time: The Simple Future and Future Continuous Tenses Coe, N. (2009). Oxford Living Grammar: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages 6-7. Page 122 No 02 Activity 1.

Pages 18-21 D-F Page 122 No 05 Activities 1 and 2.

Tutorial 3 Present Perfect: since and for Present Perfect: already and yet Present Perfect vs Past Simple Present Perfect Progressive and Present Perfect Coe, N. (2009). Oxford Living Grammar: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages 11 -13, 15. Page 122 No 03 Activity 1.

Tutorial 4 The Active Voice The Passive Voice with Simple Tenses Coe, N. (2009). Oxford Living Grammar: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages 42-43. Page 123 No 11 Activity 1. The Passive Voice with the Present Perfect Tense Task 1 In formal writing, for eg in newspaper reports, we usually use the passive to sound impersonal. Write 1-2 sentences in the passive (Present Perfect ) for each of the following. No 1 has been done for you. 1. The country has been affected by flooding. Thousands of people have been evacuated. Many have been airlifted to higher ground. The burglars have been caught. . .

2.

3.

The report has not been submitted. . .

4.

The Sales and Marketing division has been turned into three separate divisions there is now an International Division, a UK Division and a new office that has just been set up in Tokyo. . .

Tutorial 5 The Passive Voice with the Present Continuous Tense The Passive Voice with Modal Auxiliaries Task 1 Turn the following sentences into the passive voice: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The boy is reading the book. They are growing many types of vegetables in their backyard. The state is keeping him in prison. He is hugging them. Global climate change is threatening penguins living in the Antartic. Somebody is painting the walls. Somebody is conducting the interviews in the office. Somebody is re-designing our website at the moment Apparently somebody is making some major changes.

Task 2 Decide whether to use the passive voice or the active voice to complete the following text. Our campus

(have) a parking problem. The students think something

(should, do) about it. A parking garage

(could, build). An

underground parking garage that

(would, be) best. Also, there is a lot of extra space

(could, use) to make parking lots. The students

(could, have)

a fund-raising campaign to raise the money for a parking structure. There are other things that

(could, do) as well. More students and teachers

(should find) alternate transportation to the campus. More people (could, take) the bus or join a carpool.
Adapted from: http://www.shoreline.edu/

Read the following information on Nintendo. Then write a similar short paragraph about the history of a company that you know of.

When Nintendo was founded by Fujisaro Yamauchi in 1889, it manufactured Japanese playing cards. The company started making other games in 1963. The first video games were introduced in the 1970s, and the first gameboy was introduced in 1989. The products were constantly upgraded and improved, and the Nintendo Game Cube of 2001 became the fastest-selling hardware system in the world.

Taken from: Duckworth, M.(2009). Business grammar & practice. Oxford: OUP

Tutorial 6 The Past Perfect Simple Tense The Past Perfect Continuous Tense Coe, N. (2009). Oxford Living Grammar: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Page 16. Page 122 No 04 Activity 1.

Tutorial 7 Count-Uncount Nouns and Articles Count and Uncount Nouns Quantifiers Articles: Definite and Indefinite Coe, N. (2009). Oxford Living Grammar: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Page 63 A, B. Page 75 A,B.

Tutorial 8 Subject Relative Clause Object Relative Clause Coe, N. (2009). Oxford Living Grammar: Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Page 110 A. Page 111 B. Page 125 No. 28 Activity 1 Tutorial 9 Oral test

Tutorial 10 Oral test Quiz/Mid-term

Tutorial 11 Oral test

Tutorial 12 Oral test

Tutorial 13 Revision