Celta written assignment 1

CELTA Written Assignment

Assignment 1: Language Analysis

Part A

1. She’s meeting Fred at 3 o’clock.

a) Present Progressive + Future Time.

b) Subject + form of the verb To Be + Present Participle.

c) A fixed arrangement in the past referring to future time.

d) Contractions: She is – She’s pronounced [ʃiːz] of the clock – o’clock pronounced [əˈklɒk] Weak forms: at – pronounced [ət] Sentence stress: syllable of Fred Intonation: falling at the end of the sentence.

e) Conceptual difficulties: confusion among the Present Progressive and the Future Simple and the “Going to” construction: She’s meeting Fred (now), She’ll meet Fred and She’s going to meet Fred. Contraction ’s may cause confusion with the Present Perfect auxiliary verb “has”, for it has the same contraction ’s: She has / She is = She’s. Structural: students may omit the auxiliary verb “Be”. students may say “She meeting…” or “She be meeting…”.

f) A visual of a woman comfortably resting at her living room sofa watching television, a clock hung on the wall behind her showing 11:00 AM and a thought bubble coming out of her head with the picture of a man’s head (Fred), with no background so that won’t influence students thinking that Fred is somewhere waiting for her.

g) Is she with Fred now? No. Is Fred waiting for her? No. Do they have plans to meet now? No. Do they have plans to meet at 3 o’clock? Yes.

h) Timeline:

Past Now Future

2. It’s going to rain.

a) Going to.

b) Subject + form of the verb To Be + going to + Main Verb (bare infinitive).

c) Predict future events, based on present concrete evidence.

d) Contractions: It is – It’s pronounced [ɪts] Weak forms: to – pronounced [tə] Sentence stress: syllable of rain.