PhD Valentina Gavranovic

The content of the course CE1 (Contemporary English 1) Integrated skills Reading Listening Grammar Vocabulary Writing Speaking Translation

Different purposes of reading Reading for gist/ skimming Scanning Intensive reading Extensive reading Reading for the general meaning or purpose of a text Reading a text quickly in order to find specific information Involves learners reading in detail with specific learning aims and tasks. Reading for pleasure and enjoyment, helps develop general reading skills

A job worth doing Text A What does the golf ball diver do? What does he do with the golf ball he recovers? How many balls does he collect a day? Why is it considered a risky job? What is his biggest problem? Why does he enjoy his job?

A job worth doing Text B Why is being a chef on a submarine such an important and demanding job? Why does a chef have to be imaginative? What does he say about the conditions in the kitchen? What is the hardest thing about his job?

A job worth doing Text C What does the ethical hacker do? How does she do that? What does she like about her job? What is she working on at the moment?

A job worth doing Text D Why does the sports agent think he is lucky? Why does he think that being a sports agent is ideal for him? How can being a sports agent be tiring? What does he love about his job? What type of things does he do?

A job worth doing Text E Why does the career adviser love her job? What kind of people ask her for help? What does she try to do with them? Why does she consider her job rewarding? What is the most important thing as far as her job is concerned?

The Simple Present: form In the affirmative the simple present has the same form as the infinitive, but adds s for the third person singular. Affirmative Negative Interrogative Negative interrogative I work I don’t work Do I work? Do I not work? He works He doesn’t work Does he work? Does he not work?

The Present Simple

The Present Simple is used: for permanent situations. 2. for repeated/ habitual actions. 3. for general truths. 4. for future actions related to timetables and programmes. 5. in exclamatory sentences with Off…/ Here…/ There …/, etc. My brother works at the post office. Miranda usually organises work meetings in the morning. Water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius. The conference starts tomorrow at 8 a.m. 5. I’ve just lost a very important client. There goes my job.

The Present Progressive: form The present progressive (continuous) is formed with the present tense of the auxiliary verb to be + the present participle. Negative interrogative: Am I not working? Is he not working? etc. Contractions: the verb be can be contracted, e.g . I’m working. Isn’t he working? He’s not/ he isn’t working. Why’s he working? etc.

The spelling of the present participle

The Present Progressive is used: 1. for actions happening now. 2. for temporary situations. 3. for future arrangements. 4. for situations which are changing or developing around the present time. Are you doing anything right now? Can you type up this report? I’m working as a waitress until I leave university. Tony is going on a business trip on Monday, but he’ll be back on Thursday. Unemployment is increasing day by day.