5/20/2018 Pre-Teaching Task for new EFL teachers
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British Educational Centre Teacher Training Materials 2014
Pre-seminar LA Daniel Clayton, 2014
Please answer the following questions to the best of your
ability. Write your answers on the
answer sheet.
SECTION 1: Semantic Differences
Contrast the meaning between each of the following pairs of
sentences and words. Where possible, use the correct
metalanguage (grammatical terminology) in your explanations.
(1)a. John goes to the gym on Saturdays.b. John is going to the
gym on Saturday.
(2)a. I remembered to post the letter.b. I remembered posting
the letter.
(3)a. He could have made a lot of money.b. He must have made a
lot of money.
(4)a. Have you been to Japan in the spring?b. Did you go to
Japan in the spring?
(5)a. He had repaired his car many times.
b. He had his car repaired many times.
(6)a. He was discussing the business when I left.b. He discussed
the business when I left.
(7)a. embarrassedb. ashamed
SECTION 2: Language Analysis
Analyse the following utterances in terms of their meaning, form
(syntactical and morphological), and
pronunciation (word stress and/or sentence stress and intonation
pattern, using the phonemic script, if you are able
to do this). Where possible, use the correct metalanguage in
your explanations. Note that this should be a linguistic
analysis as far as your knowledge extends, and not the kind of
explanations you would necessarily use for learners.
(8) I was going to phone you yesterday.
(9)a. Shes been living in New York for six years.b. He lived in
New York for six years.
(10) Im looking forward to working with her again.
Pre-Seminar Language Analysis
for New Teachers
