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LESSON PLAN 1
THEME: BASIC SYNTACTIC UNITS
Level: Intermediate
Materials: Blackboard, projector, laptop, different handouts
Aim: To raise the awareness about the Course “Practical Grammar”
Time: 80 min
Basic contrasts: Basic syntactic units
Languages may be synthetic and analytical according to their grammatical structure. In
synthetic languages, such as for instance Russian, the grammatical relations
between words are
expressed by means of inflections: e. g. крыша дома.
In analytical languages, such as English, the grammatical relations between words are
expressed by means of form words and word order: e. g.
the roof of the house.
Analytical forms are mostly proper to verbs. An analytical verb-form consists of one or more
form words, which have no lexical meaning and only express one
or more of the grammatical
categories of person, number, tense, aspect, voice, mood,
and one notional word, generally an
infinitive or a participle: e. g.
He has come, I am reading.
The analytical forms are:
1. Tense and Aspect verb-forms (the Continuous form:
I am writing,
the Perfect form:
I have
written,
the Perfect Continuous form:
I have been writing,
the Future Indefinite:
I shall write,
all
the other forms of the Future; also the interrogative and the negative
forms of the Present and
Past Indefinite:
Does he sing? He does not sing).
2. The Passive Voice:
I was invited to the theatre.
3. The analytical form of the Subjunctive Mood:
I should go there if I had time.
In all these analytical forms the form word is an auxiliary verb.
(For detailed treatment see chapters on the verb.)
One of the marked features of the English language is the extensive use of substitutes. A word
substitute saves the repetition of a word in certain conditions. Here belong
one, that, do.
One
replaces class nouns in the singular and in the plural:
Thanks for
the compliment, if it is
Dostları ilə paylaş: 
