Progress Review 27. Use of English Bi+

If she … to prison, what will become of her children?

They … away at their homework while their parents were doing up the rooms.

Security … in advance of the President’s visit on Thursday.

She hates … in a long queue to pay.

What … weird about the way the old lady lived?

Hypothesis

Students will of course be familiar with conditional sentences. This doesn't mean that they aren't making mistakes with them! What … is that in their English learning career they have had many lessons where teachers have tried to get across the difference between the basic patterns.

Students … on their own for a minute or two to think of similar sentences to say about themselves and their family before the principal came into the classroom.

What … their pronunciation like?

A teacher should be watching to see what sort of learners students are. Who are the ones who are so fearful of … to make a mistake that they daren’t utter a sentence without five minutes to plan it first.

All the tenses … in greater depth in later units.

Vincent Van Gogh

A Dutch painter whose genius … in his own lifetime. He sold only one painting. He was an energetic painter but suffered from deep depression and periods of insanity. Once he cut off one of his ears. Finally he committed suicide.

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

Born Norma Jean Baker. US film actress and sex symbol. Most famous films Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like it Hot. She is said … an affair with President Kennedy. She died from a drug overdose.