[etni] Fwd: Re: Question - Which is better to teach first - Grammar
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From: Marlene <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Question - Which is better to teach first - Grammar
I think it was the linguist Michael Tobin at a grammar lecture at ETAI
who taught us how present progressive is so useless because when do
you describe present actions except if you're describing a surgery
while performing it or staking out a crime scene...while present, past
and future simple are most frequent in everyday conversations (what
did you do last summer, what will you do tomorrow, what do you do in
your free time...) Nevertheless, I think that the interrogative and
negative forms are easier to grasp in the progressive and moreover,
the meaning is closer to L1 (the here and now).
Marlene
Leo wrote:
> Don't remember if it appears in the Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken
> English or if it was Lewis (of the Lexical Approach fame) who said that 70%
> of the time we use Simple forms (both Present and Past) so teach your
> students Present and Past simple and they will be correct - in terms of
> grammar - 70% of the time.
>
> You also might want to look at this blog post:
> http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2012/01/fixed-acquisition-order-no-evidence.html
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