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advanced students.
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April 2007 - Issue
002
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Instituto Cultural Argentino de Inglés
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Av. Rivadavia 8980
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(011) 4672 1206 - info@idiomasicadi.com
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SUMMARY
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Grammar: |
Uses of
the Simple Present Tense |
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Phonology: |
Spelling
Patterns
Spelling-to-sound
correspondence |
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Writing: |
Parts
of speech |
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Words: |
More
Chat Codes
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Proverbs and
sayings
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Famous
quotations.
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Uses
of the Simple Present Tense
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Use
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Example
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Time
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Habit/routine
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My
sister usually gets up early in the morning.
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general
time
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Instructions
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You
turn right at this corner and you’ll see the post office.
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general
time
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Public
timetable/schedule
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The
last train to York leaves at 9.50 p.m.
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general
time
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General
truths/laws of nature
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Water
freezes at 0° C.
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general
time
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Permanent
situations in the present
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Susan
lives in Canada with her family.
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general
time
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Sports
commentary
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Beckham
wins the ball and scores a goal.
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Present;
time of speaking
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Headlines
– present events
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Brazil
celebrates Carnival.
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Present;
time of speaking
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Headlines
– past events
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Tiger
Woods wins Masters.
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past
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Personal
timetable/schedule
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He
finishes his exams on Tuesday.
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future
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Future
time clauses
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He’ll
phone us as soon as he gets there.
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future
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Jokes
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A
man walks into a shop to buy a Barbie doll for……
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no
time
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Fictional
plots
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Mary
leaves her husband and runs away with Thomas.
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no
time
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Exclamatory
sentences with “Here..!” “There…!”
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“Here
comes the bride!” ;
“There goes my money!”
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Present;
time of speaking
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Phonology
tips |
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Spelling
patterns
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Spelling-to-sound correspondence
The
symbol "•" stands for an intervening consonant.
The letter sequences are in order of frequency with the most
common first.
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Long sound / iù
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Short sound / I
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e
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evening
- be
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i
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bit
- six - sit - king
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y
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city
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i•e
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give
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ee
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see
- feed - sheep
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a•e
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damage
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ea
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sea
- seat - meat
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myth
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e•e
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cede
- Pete
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ie
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mischief
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i•e
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machine
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ia
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carriage
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ie
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field
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ie•e
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sieve
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ei
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deceit
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y
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myth
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ei•e
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deceive
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ui
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build
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-ey
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key
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ei
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counterfeit
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ae / ay
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Caesar
- quay
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ee
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been
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eo - oe
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people
- amoeba
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e
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pretty
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is
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debris
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ia
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carriage
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eip
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receipt
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u
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busy
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ie•e
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relieve
- believe
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o
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women
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ski
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u•e
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minute
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ea•e
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leave
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eig
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sovereign
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eigh
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Raleigh
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u•e
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minute
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ie•e
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sieve
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If
you cannot see the phonetic symbols properly you have to
install a Unicod IPA Font on your compute. You can
download one from SIL
International site |
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verb
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A
verb
asserts something about the subject of the sentence and
expresses actions, events, or states of being. Verbs can be
transitive, intransitive, auxiliary, modal, finite,
non-finite, etc.
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noun
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A
noun is a word used to name a person, animal,
place, thing, and abstract idea.
Types
of nouns: proper, common, concrete, abstract, countable,
non-countable, collective
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pronoun
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A
pronoun can replace a noun, another pronoun, noun
phrases and perform most of the functions of a noun.
Personal
pronouns (subjective, objective, possessive)
Demonstrative pronouns: "this, that, these, and those''.
Interrogative pronouns: "who, whom, which, what''.
Relative pronouns:
"who, whom, that, which.''
Indefinite pronouns:
all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, each, everybody, everyone, everything, few, many, nobody, none, one,
several, some, somebody, and someone.
Reflexive pronouns: "myself, yourself, herself, himself,
itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves.''
An intensive pronoun is a pronoun used to emphasize or
highlight an attribute.
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adjective
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An
adjective modifies a noun
a pronoun by describing, identifying, or quantifying
words. An adjective usually precedes the noun or the pronoun
which it modifies.
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adverb
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An
adverb can modify a verb, an adjective, another adverb,
a phrase, or a complete clause by indicating manner, time,
place, cause, or degree.
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preposition
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A
preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other
words in a sentence. . The word or phrase that the preposition
introduces is called the object of the preposition.
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conjunction
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Conjunctions
links words, phrases and clauses.
Co-ordinating conjunction
("and," "but," "or,"
"nor," "for," "so," or
"yet")
Subordinating conjunctions ("after,"
"although," "as," "because,"
"before," "how," "if,"
"once," "since," "than,"
"that," "though," "till,"
"until," "when," "where,"
"whether," and while.")
Correlative
conjunctions always appear in pairs – they
link equivalent sentence elements.
("both...and," "either...or,"
"neither...nor,", "not only...but also,"
"so...as," and "whether...or." )
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interjection
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An
interjection is a word added to a sentence to
convey emotion. It is not grammatically related to any other
part of the sentence.
(Ouch,Oh
no, Hey!
, eh!,
good
lord!)
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More Chat
Codes
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Love
and kisses |
QSL |
Reply |
NRN |
No
Reply Necessary |
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BBN |
Bye
Bye Now |
SYS |
See
You Soon |
PM |
Private
Message |
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BWL |
Bursting
With Laughter |
TNX |
Thanks |
TNT |
Till
Next Time |
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L8R |
Later |
KOL |
Kiss
On Lips |
YM |
Young
Man |
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LY4E |
Love
You Forever |
WB |
Welcome
Back |
YL |
Young
Lady |
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Proverbs
and saying |
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Where
there's a will, there's a way.
A
person with determination will find a way of doing something.
You
can't teach an old dog new tricks.
You
can't make old people change their ideas or ways of doing
things.
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Famous
Quotations |
- "Small
opportunities are often the beginning of great
enterprises. "
- Demosthenes
(384 BC - 322 BC)
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