UNIT 1
PRESENT SIMPLE & PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PRESENTATION
1. Read the passage below. Use a dictionary to check vocabulary where necessary.
INTERNET DISTANCE EDUCATION
The World Wide Web (www) is beginning to see and to develop activity in this
regard and this activity is increasing dramatically every year. The Internet offers full
university level courses to all registered students, complete with real time seminars
and exams and professors’ visiting hours. The Web is extremely flexible and its
distance presentations and capabilities are always up to date. The students can get the
text, audio and video of whatever subject they wish to have.
The possibilities for education on the Web are amazing. Many college and
university classes presently create web pages for semester class projects. Research
papers on many different topics are also available. Even primary school pupils are
using the Web to access information and pass along news to others pupils. Exchange
students can communicate with their classmates long before they actually arrive at the
new school.
There are resources on the Internet designed to help teachers become better
teachers – even when they cannot offer their students the benefits of an on-line
community. Teachers can use university or college computer systems or home
computers and individual Internet accounts to educate themselves and then bring the
benefits of the Internet to their students by proxy.
2. Compare the sentences below.
a. “ This activity increases dramatically every year”.
b. “Even primary school pupils are using the Web to access information”.
3. Grammar questions
a. Which sentence expresses a true fact?
b. Which sentence expresses an activity happening now or around now?
♦ Note
Can is often used to express one’s ability, possibility and permission. It is
followed by an infinitive (without to).
Read the passage again and answer the questions.
a. What can students get from the Web?
b. How can Internet help teachers become better teachers?
PRACTICE
1. Grammar
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, 1.1 Put the verb in brackets into the correct verb form (the Present Simple or the
Present Continuous) and then solve the problem.
Imagine you …………. (wait) at the bus stop for a friend to get off a bus from the
north. Three buses from the north and four buses from the south ……… (arrive) about
the same time. What ………. (be) the probability that your friend will get off the first
bus? Will the first bus come / be from the north?
1.2 Complete these sentences by putting the verb in brackets into the Present Simple
or the Present Continuous.
a. To solve the problem of gravitation, scientists …………… (consider) time–
space geometry in a new way nowadays.
b. Quantum rules …………… (obey) in any system.
c. We …………… (use) Active Server for this project because it ……… (be)
Web–based.
d. Scientists …………… (trace and locate) the subtle penetration of quantum
effects into a completely classical domain.
e. Commonly we ………… (use) C + + and JavaScript.
f. At the moment we …………… (develop) a Web–based project.
g. Its domain ………… (begin) in the nucleus and ………… (extend) to the solar
system.
h. Right now I …………. (try) to learn how to use Active Server properly.
1.3 Put “can”, “can not”, ”could”, ”could not” into the following sentences.
a. Parents are finding that they ………….. no longer help their children with their
arithmetic homework.
b. The solution for the construction problems …………… be found by pure
reason.
c. The Greeks …………….. solve the problem not because they were not clever
enough, but because the problem is insoluble under the specified conditions.
d. Using only a straight-edge and a compass the Greeks …………. easily divide
any line segment into any number of equal parts.
e. Web pages…………. offer access to a world of information about and
exchange with other cultures and communities and experts in every field.
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PRESENT SIMPLE & PRESENT CONTINUOUS
PRESENTATION
1. Read the passage below. Use a dictionary to check vocabulary where necessary.
INTERNET DISTANCE EDUCATION
The World Wide Web (www) is beginning to see and to develop activity in this
regard and this activity is increasing dramatically every year. The Internet offers full
university level courses to all registered students, complete with real time seminars
and exams and professors’ visiting hours. The Web is extremely flexible and its
distance presentations and capabilities are always up to date. The students can get the
text, audio and video of whatever subject they wish to have.
The possibilities for education on the Web are amazing. Many college and
university classes presently create web pages for semester class projects. Research
papers on many different topics are also available. Even primary school pupils are
using the Web to access information and pass along news to others pupils. Exchange
students can communicate with their classmates long before they actually arrive at the
new school.
There are resources on the Internet designed to help teachers become better
teachers – even when they cannot offer their students the benefits of an on-line
community. Teachers can use university or college computer systems or home
computers and individual Internet accounts to educate themselves and then bring the
benefits of the Internet to their students by proxy.
2. Compare the sentences below.
a. “ This activity increases dramatically every year”.
b. “Even primary school pupils are using the Web to access information”.
3. Grammar questions
a. Which sentence expresses a true fact?
b. Which sentence expresses an activity happening now or around now?
♦ Note
Can is often used to express one’s ability, possibility and permission. It is
followed by an infinitive (without to).
Read the passage again and answer the questions.
a. What can students get from the Web?
b. How can Internet help teachers become better teachers?
PRACTICE
1. Grammar
7
, 1.1 Put the verb in brackets into the correct verb form (the Present Simple or the
Present Continuous) and then solve the problem.
Imagine you …………. (wait) at the bus stop for a friend to get off a bus from the
north. Three buses from the north and four buses from the south ……… (arrive) about
the same time. What ………. (be) the probability that your friend will get off the first
bus? Will the first bus come / be from the north?
1.2 Complete these sentences by putting the verb in brackets into the Present Simple
or the Present Continuous.
a. To solve the problem of gravitation, scientists …………… (consider) time–
space geometry in a new way nowadays.
b. Quantum rules …………… (obey) in any system.
c. We …………… (use) Active Server for this project because it ……… (be)
Web–based.
d. Scientists …………… (trace and locate) the subtle penetration of quantum
effects into a completely classical domain.
e. Commonly we ………… (use) C + + and JavaScript.
f. At the moment we …………… (develop) a Web–based project.
g. Its domain ………… (begin) in the nucleus and ………… (extend) to the solar
system.
h. Right now I …………. (try) to learn how to use Active Server properly.
1.3 Put “can”, “can not”, ”could”, ”could not” into the following sentences.
a. Parents are finding that they ………….. no longer help their children with their
arithmetic homework.
b. The solution for the construction problems …………… be found by pure
reason.
c. The Greeks …………….. solve the problem not because they were not clever
enough, but because the problem is insoluble under the specified conditions.
d. Using only a straight-edge and a compass the Greeks …………. easily divide
any line segment into any number of equal parts.
e. Web pages…………. offer access to a world of information about and
exchange with other cultures and communities and experts in every field.
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