Unit 8: Sporting Life - Tenses Overview

Unit 8: Sporting Life - Form, Meaning & Function

• The unit focuses on the grammatical concepts of Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Progressive tenses, including their form, meaning, and function.
• Objectives include distinguishing between present perfect simple and present perfect progressive; forming sentences using these tenses; and using adverbs of manner in correct sentences, in application to sports or sporting activities to create complete sentences.
• The lesson material covers how to use these tenses to describe actions starting in the past and connected to the present, highlighting their results, and lengths of time.
• Present Perfect Simple is used to express completed actions, frequency, or general experiences.
• Present Perfect Progressive focuses on actions that began in the past and continue into the present, emphasizing duration or the ongoing nature of the action.
• Time expressions like "for," "since," and phrases indicating duration (all day/week/month/year) are used with these tenses.
• The Present Perfect Simple is used to talk about quantities.
• Countable nouns use "how many." Uncountable nouns use "how much."
• Adverbs of manner describe how an action is performed. They usually end in "-ly." Some adverbs are irregular (e.g., good/well).
• Comparative adjectives and adverbs compare two or more things. Add "-er" for one-syllable words, and "more" or "less" for multiple-syllable words. Some adjectives and adverbs are irregular (e.g., good/better, bad/worse).
• "As...as" is used to show similarity between two items.
• "Not as...as" is used to show a lack of similarity between two items.
• The unit material includes exercises in a workbook (page 304).