Spoken English And Broken English
(after G.B.Shaw)
If you are learning English because you intend to travel in England and wish to be understood there, you _____ not try to speak English perfectly because, if you do it, no one _____to understand you.
Though there is no such thing as perfectly correct English, there is presentable English which we call Good English, but in London nine hundred and ninety-nine out of every thousand people not only speak bad English but speak even that very badly. You _____ say that even if they _____ not speak English well themselves, they at least _____ understand it when it is well spoken. They _____ when the speaker is English; but when the speaker is a foreigner, the better he _____ speak, the harder it is to understand him. Therefore the first thing you _____ to do is to speak with a strong foreign accent. You _____ speak broken English, that is English without any Grammar. Then every English person will think that you _____ be a foreigner, and try to understand you and be ready to help.
He will not expect you to be polite and to use correct grammatical phrases. He will be interested in you because you are a foreigner. If you say, _____ you have the goodness, sir, to direct me to the railway station at Charing Cross, pronouncing all the vowels and consonants beautifully, nobody _____ to understand you and will think you to be a beggar. But if you shout, Please! Charing Cross! Which way?, you will have no difficulty. Half a dozen people will give you directions at once.
: Indefinite (Simple), Continuous (Progressive), Perfect, Perfect Continuous.
ENGLISH TENSES
| INDEFINITE (repeated, customary action) | CONTINUOUS (action/process going on at the moment of speech) | PERFECT (completed action connected with the present; result) | PERFECT CONTINOUOS (action/process which began in the past and is still going on) | |
| P R E S E N T | verb ask(s) |
be + V-ing
 am
is asking
are
| have + V in III form
 have
asked
has
| have been + V-ing
 have
been asking
has
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| P A S T | asked took | was asking were asking | had asked | had been asking |
| F U T U R E | will ask | will be asking | will have asked | will have been asking |
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(The Indefinite (Simple) Tenses)
Indefinite , . 3 : Present Indefinite, Past Indefinite, Future Indefinite.
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(The Present Simple Tense)
() , , , , , , , , . .
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I go to the Institute every day. .
Present Indefinite () to , 3 . s es.
s :
(to) write he writ es
(to) work he work s
es , :
1) s, ss, ch, tch, x, o:
(to) dress he dre sses
(to) watch he wa tches
2) y, ; y i:
(to) try he tr ies ,
(to) cry he cr ies
: y , s: (to) play he pla ys. y .
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1) [s]: he stops;
2) [z]: she sees, he lives;
3) ss, -s, -ch, -tch, -sh, -x [iz]: she teaches, he passes.
Present Indefinite does ( ) do ( ). . s/-es. not, do does.
He speaks English. -.
Does he speak English? -?
He does not (doesnt) speak English. -.
They like ice cream. .
Do they like ice cream? ?
They do not (dont) like ice cream. .
: often (), usually (), seldom (), always (), sometimes (), never (), every (): every day/week/month/year/Monday ( ////).
often, seldom, always, never, usually -. to be, .
I often read books. .
He is always very busy. .
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Model: What does a driver do? He drives.
What do drivers do? They drive.
1. What does a singer do? 2 What does a runner do? 3 What do students do? 4.What does a dancer do? 5. What do cooks do? 6. What do dancers do? 7. What does a painter do? 8. What do teachers do? 9. What does a typist do? 10. What do painters do? 11. What do writers do?
