1. English for Specific Purposes
Lesson 10
Text Completion 1 and
Midterm review

2. Quiz preparation
• Pass in your homework
• On the next slide are the
answers. Use your book and
the answers to review for the
quiz for 4 minutes.
• PLEASE ask me questions if
you don’t understand

4. Verb tense 2
Past simple (過去形)
vs.
Past continuous (過去進行形)

5. Past simple vs.
continuous
• Page 28
• Read the information in
the gray boxes
• Try questions 5-8
• Check

6. Grammar strategy
• Looking for clues
• Page 29, Part A: Choose
Present or Past
• Part C

7. Practice
• Page 32

8. Verb tense 3
• Page 104, Part 1A
Future events can be done with:
1. will + base verb
2. be going to + base verb
3. am/is/are + verb+ -ing
Practice: Page 104, Part 1B

9. Perfect tense
• Page 105, Part 2A: read the
boxes
• Part 2B

10. Practice
• Page 106
• Page 107

11. Strategies
1. Decide if the
question is a
VOCABULARY or
GRAMMAR question

12. Strategies
Vocabulary:
a. Guess the meaning if
you can, and find the word
with the same meaning
b. If not, try each word,
boldly eliminating
wrong answers

13. Strategies
Grammar:
a. Look for CLUES about:
– the part of speech
– the correct tense
– subject vs. object (he/him)
– special clues

14. Strategies
IC & TC: Spend 30 SECONDS
OR LESS per question.
TC: Only read the sentences
that have questions in
them.

15. Pages to study
Pages 24-5: parts of speech
Pages 28-29: present and
past tenses
Page 99: noun/verb suffixes
Pages 104-105: future and
perfect tenses
Page 138-139: Pronouns

16. Also…
All of your homework (old
and new)
For practice questions with
explanations:
http://www.englishclub.com/esl-
exams/ets-toeic-practice-5.htm
http://www.englishclub.com/esl-
exams/ets-toeic-practice-6.htm