We usually use verb ________ forms to talk about things that are repeated, permanent or completed.

SIMPLE

PERFECT

1 More people speak English than any other language.

2 He always recommends people use Globish.

3 We visited one acting class.

1 PERMANENT 2 REPEATED 3 COMPLETED

1. REPEATED 2 PERMANENT 3 COMPLETED

1,2 PRESENT SIMPLE 3 PAST SIMPLE

1,3 PRESENT SIMPLE. 2 PAST SIMPLE

We usually use __________ verb forms to talk about things that are in progress, temporary or unfinished.

PASSIVE

CONTINUOUS

1,The way people study English is also changing.

2. A student was pretending to be the film star Orlando Bloom.

3. The government has been building English immersion schools

1. IN PROGRESS IN THE PAST 2UNFINSHED 3UNFINISHED

1. TEMPORARY 2. IN PROGRESS IN THE PAST. 3. UNFINISHED

1. PRESENT CONTINUOUS 2. PAST CONTINUOUS 3. PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

1. PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS 2 PAST CONTINUOUS. 3. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

We usually use ______ verb forms to talk about things that connect two different time periods (the past and the present, etc.).

SIMPLE

PERFECT

1. English has become the dominant language of international business.

2. A recent report suggested that the number of non-native speakers had already reached 2 billion.

1. PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE 2. PAST PERFECT SIMPLE

1. PAST PERFECT 2. PRESENT PERFECT

We usually use _____ verb forms when we focus on what happens to someone or something rather than who or what does the action .

PASSIVE

PAST

1. About 75% of the world's correspondence is written in English.

2. English was chosen as the working language of the Japanese, French and Czech staff.

1. PAST PASSIVE. 2. PRESENT PASSIVE

1. PRESENT PASSIVE. 2. PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE

ACTIVITY VERBS ARE activities and actions

Learn, change, run, play, hit, lose,

Need, seem, know, remember, love, want,

STATE VERB ARE about states, feelings and opinions

Read, study, run, hike. cycle, watch, write, listen, speak, eat.

Need, seem, know, remember, love, want,hear, believe, agree, forget, mean, understand, like, hate, prefer, belong, own,cost.

RULE= We don't usually use state verbs in continuous verb forms

It seems that the answer is difficult to predict

It's seeming that the answer is difficult to predict.

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