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Unit 6 - Passages 1

The document provides instruction on English grammar tenses and vocabulary. It discusses the simple past and present perfect tenses, explaining their uses to report past events with or without specific time frames. It also discusses the present perfect continuous tense and its use to describe temporary or ongoing situations. Example sentences and phrases are given to illustrate the uses of each tense. Key vocabulary words like famine, epidemic, and hijacking are also defined. Finally, temporal adverbs for use with different tenses are outlined.

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Unit 6 - Passages 1

The document provides instruction on English grammar tenses and vocabulary. It discusses the simple past and present perfect tenses, explaining their uses to report past events with or without specific time frames. It also discusses the present perfect continuous tense and its use to describe temporary or ongoing situations. Example sentences and phrases are given to illustrate the uses of each tense. Key vocabulary words like famine, epidemic, and hijacking are also defined. Finally, temporal adverbs for use with different tenses are outlined.

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UNIT 6 – PASSAGES 1

GRAMMAR
SIMPLE PAST Use to report an event with “Specific Time”:

They were too late

PRESENT PERFECT Use to report an event without “Specific Time”, and


describe permanent or recently situations, and activities that going to finish:

 My friend has left their key in my house.


 They,ve always gone to the library.
 I’ve lived here for 4 years.

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS Use to describe “Temporaly” situations or


situations that going to continuous:

 My mom has been coocking for my dad and i.


 I’ve been living here for 4 years.

VOCABULARY
 FAMINE
 EPIDEMIC
 HIJACKING
 KIDNAPPING
 NATURAL DISASTER
 POLITICAL CRISIS
 REBELLION
 RECESSION
 SCANDAL
 ROBBERY
ADVERBS

 Use with SIMPLE PAST to describe something that happened AFTER:

Afterwards

Later we cried for that.

The next day

 Use with SIMPLE PAST to describe two things that happend at the SAME TIME:

When

As soon as i left the grocery, my mom called me for buy more things.

The moment

 Use with PAST PERFECT to describe that was true or that happened:

Up until then,
Before that, I had learned how to do it.
Until taht time,

VOCABULARY
I’ll never forget the time… The thing you have to know is…

It all started when… I forgot to mention that…

That reminds me of when… The other thing is…

I’ve got to tell you about… And in the end…

What happened was... To make a long story short…

Meanwhile... So finally…

The next thing we knew...

So later on…

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