Qarshi davlat universiteti roman-german filologiyasi fakulteti lingvistika kafedrasi

Handout 2 Underline the correct word or phrase in each sentence. 
a) I'll be back after a few minutes/in a few minutes. 
b) I'm sure that everything will be all right at the end/in the end. 
c) Please call me the moment/exactly when you hear any news. 
d) I should be back by the time/at the time the film begins. 
e) I'm sure Fiona will be here before long/after a while. 
f) I can't leave on Tuesday. I won't be ready until then/by then. 
g) By twenty four hours/this time tomorrow I'll be in Bangkok, 
h) Diana will be retiring soon/already. 
i) There will be no official announcements forthwith/from now on. 
j) Bye for now. I'll see you in two weeks' time/two weeks later.
 
 
Lesson plan 3 
Theme: Simple sentences 
Level: Intermediate.
Materials: Blackboard, Projector, laptop, different handouts
Aim: To raise the awareness about 
the Course “Practical Grammar” 
Time: 
80 min 
A Simple sentences
are a property of items within the grammar of a language. Within each 
category there are two or more possible values (sometimes called grammemes), which are 
normally mutually exclusive. Frequently encountered grammatical categories include: 

tense, the placing of a verb in a time frame, which can take values such as present and past 
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number, with values such as singular, plural, and sometimes dual, trial, paucal, uncountable 
or partitive, inclusive or exclusive 

gender, with values such as masculine, feminine and neuter 

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noun classes, which are more general than just gender, and include additional classes like: 
animated, humane, plants, animals, things, and immaterial for concepts and verbal 
nouns/actions, sometimes as well shapes 
Categories may be described and named with regard to the type of meanings that they are 
used to express. For example, the category of tense usually expresses the time of occurrence (e.g. 
past, present or future). However, purely grammatical features do not always correspond simply 
or consistently to elements of meaning, and different authors may take significantly different 
approaches in their terminology and analysis. For example, the meanings associated with the 
categories of tense, aspect and mood are often bound up in verb conjugation patterns that do not 
have separate grammatical elements corresponding to each of the three categories; see Tense–
aspect–mood. 
Categories may be marked on words by means of inflection. In English, for example, the number 
of a noun is usually marked by leaving the noun uninflected if it is singular, and by adding the 
suffix 
-s
if it is plural (although some nouns have irregular plural forms). On other occasions, a 
category may not be marked overtly on the item to which it pertains, being manifested only 
through other grammatical features of the sentence, often by way of grammatical agreement. 
For example: 
The bird can sing. 
The bird
s
can sing. 
In the above sentences, the number of the noun is marked by the absence or presence of the 
ending 
-s
. 
The sheep