Grammar - GEPT Class

Dear All,
There are all the structures that we talked last Tuesday. I make examples with one verb, "work". Hope it will make you understand more.

1. Simple Present Tense - Talking about things you do regularly; or things you used to do it from time to time or something will never change.

I work everyday. / He works everyday.

2. Present Continuous - Talking about something is in progressing or something you can see that is happening.

I am working now. / He is working at the moment.

3. Simple Past - Talking about something happen in a specific past time.

I worked yesterday. / He worked yesterday.

4. Past Continuous - Talking about something is progressing in the past, however, you can't see something "WAS HAPPENING", therefore, there are two ways that you can make it. 1 is to use a specific time to talk about it. 2 is to use another issue which can emphasize what was happening.

I was working at 7 pm yesterday evening.

He was working when the power went off.

5. Future Tense - Talking about something happen in the future. There are two helping verbs that you can use to talk about "future". One is "WILL", the other one is "Be Going To". Generally, we use these two to talk about "future", but actually, there are some small differences. We use "WILL" to talk about something you "are willing to do". And we use "Be Going To" to talk about something that you plan to do it. No matter when you are going to do it, as long as it is in your plan, we use "Be Going To".

I will work for you. / He will work for you.

I am going to work tomorrow.
He is going to work tomorrow.

6. Present Perfect - Present Perfect is present tense, it is talking about the condition of the issue from a time in the past until now. The time that happened is NOT IMPORTANT but which the condition until now matters.

I have seen "Transformers" many times.
He has seen "Transformers" for 5 times.

I saw it last Sunday.
He saw it last Sunday.

7. Present Perfect Continuous - The same with Present Perfect but it emphasize more on "PROGRESSING" part.

I have worked as a teacher for 10 years.
( Means that I have the experience being a teacher for 10 years, doesn't mean that I AM STILL A TEACHER.)

I have been working as a teacher for 10 years.
( Means that I AM STILL A TEACHER.)

Community College - Monday Class - How to Improve Your Study Skills and English Ability

The class on April 17th, we talked about how to improve our study skills and then our English abilities. There are somethings we can do in our daily lives to have our English ability improved. These are the things that we think in our class. I believe if we spend some time to recite and preview, we can have English as the part of our daily lives.

How Do You Improve Your Study Skills and English

Group 1
How to improve your English	How to improve your study skill?
Live in an English environment Go to English class Watch foreign films Listen ICRT 30 minutes everyday Watch CNN, or marry to a foreign Join English chat room Learn English one by one Take GEPT or TOFEL exams Speak in English all the time	Practice and practice Enjoy your practice Need a good coach / teacher Write a composition (love letter) in English everyday Read more books Find out your interests Travel learning Sing English songs Learn in business
Group 2
How to improve your English	How to improve your study skill
Listen English songs Watch English movies Read English stories or novels Make foreign friends Take English class in community college Work in a foreign company Have a foreign boss / staff	Study more Listen more Practice more Read English book with your mouth Find a good English teacher
Group 3
How to improve your English	How to improve your study skill
Spend half an hour each day to study English Visit some good websites like http://www.eslpod.com/ Think everything in English in our lives Try to make foreign friends Install English version for your operation system and application in your pc	Listen to English CDs or radio programs Speak and recite vocabularies and phrases Read English books Write diary in English Sing English songs Watch movies without Chinese subtitle Keep your passion Make study interesting Make sentences

Those are the ways the collected by all of the classmates. I hope that you can find the way you like and study.