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    A Sample of Assignmnet 1

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    A 60-year-old person has spent almost 20 years asleep, meaning the action of being asleep started in the past and continued until now without a definite time. The document then provides analysis of grammar, meaning, form, pronunciation, and anticipated problems and solutions for the phrases "has spent" and "the unpleasant symptoms we suffer".

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    A Sample of Assignmnet 1

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    A 60-year-old person has spent almost 20 years asleep, meaning the action of being asleep started in the past and continued until now without a definite time. The document then provides analysis of grammar, meaning, form, pronunciation, and anticipated problems and solutions for the phrases "has spent" and "the unpleasant symptoms we suffer".

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    A 60-year-old person has spent almost 20 years asleep, meaning the action of being asleep started in the past and continued until now without a definite time. The document then provides analysis of grammar, meaning, form, pronunciation, and anticipated problems and solutions for the phrases "has spent" and "the unpleasant symptoms we suffer".

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    A 60-year-old person has spent almost 20 years asleep, meaning the action of being asleep started in the past and continued until now without a definite time. The document then provides analysis of grammar, meaning, form, pronunciation, and anticipated problems and solutions for the phrases "has spent" and "the unpleasant symptoms we suffer".

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    1. .... and a 60-year- old person has spent almost twenty years asleep.

    (grammar)
    Meaning
    has spent in this grammar structure means that something happened a number of times in an unfinished period
    in the past and continued up to now.

    Concept Checking Questions (CCQs)


    1. Did the action start in the past? Yes
    2. Is a person asleep now? No
    3. Did it happen once or many times? Many times
    4. Is there a definite time in the past? No

    Form
    1. Have/ has + past participle
    has + spent
    2. has is an auxiliary verb used with the third person singular.
    past now ? Future

    Pronunciation
    •
    has spent /həzˈspent/
    1. Assimilation: /s/ to /z/ as it is preceded by a voiced sound/ə/
    2. Weak form has /həz/
    3. Ssentence stress is on the content word spent
    4. Elision /s/ sound in spent due to consonant cluster /həzˈpent/

    Anticipated Problems and Solutions

    1. Problem: Students may neglect 3rd person singular form of have.


    Solution: elicit 3rd person pronouns, record it on the board, elicit other pronouns for 3rd person
    singular, put it on the board next to has. Drill.
    2. Problem: Students may place equal stress on both an auxiliary and a main verb.
    Ex ..... has spent */hæz spent/
    Solution: elicit and mark the weak form on the board. Model and drill.
    3. Problem: Students may use (has spends) using the - final (s) form of the verb instead of the past
    Participle.
    Solution: Elicit the correct form of the verb. cross out the - final (s) form on the board and write the past
    participle above the correction.

    2. ..... the unpleasant symptoms we suffer.

    Meaning:
    - symptoms: a change in your body or mind that shows that you are not healthy which include, a headache and
    sore throat.
    - Unpleasant: not pleasant or comfortable.

    Concept Checking Questions (CCQs):


    1. Do we feel well? No.
    2. Is there a change in your body that tells you are ill? yes
    3. Are these feelings pleasant? (No)
    4. Do you have to see a doctor? (yes)
    Form
    1. Attributive Adjective (not good connotation) + noun (countable plural)
    2. unpleasant + symptoms
    3. Noun phrase (determiner + adjective + noun)
    i. The + unpleasant + symptoms

    Pronunciation
    1. Unpleasant symptoms /ʌnˈpleznt ˈsɪmptəms/
    2. Assimilation: /n/ to /m/ and /s/ to /z/-/ʌmˈpleznt ˈsɪmptəms/
    3. Sentence stress is on unpleasant symptoms.

    Appropriacy
    formal, can be used in all kinds of speaking and writing situations.

    Anticipated problems and solutions

    1. problem: Students may pronounce the (s) in unpleasant /s/ instead of /z/.
    Solution: elicit and mark the /z/ on the board. Model and drill.
    2. Problem: Students may place equal stress on both words rather than place the stress on the first word.
    3. e.g ... the unpleasant symptoms we suffer
    Solution: Elicit and mark the stress on the board. Model and drill.
    4. Problem: Students may get confused with the meaning of the word symptoms.
    Solutions: use the CCQs and give examples (cough, fever, flu, sore throat)

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