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Academic Grammar 1
Welcome to our newsletter. Here is our next new lesson creation for academic writing skills - 'the most common tenses in academic writing'.
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- According to corpus research, in academic writing, the four tenses used the most often are present simple, past simple, present perfect simple and future simple (will) (Biber et al., 1999; Caplan, 2012).
- In fact, 80% – 85% of academic and technical English is in the present, including passives (Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken English).
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PDF Lesson Download
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Academic Grammar 1: the four most common tenses in academic English
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This lesson focuses on the four tenses: past simple, present simple, present perfect simple and future simple (will). It includes a language review of each tense and sentence level and paragraph level practice exercises. It also includes a freer writing practice at the end (with example paragraph). See worksheet example Time: 120mins. Level ** [B1/B2/C1] TEACHER MEMBERSHIP / INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
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Best wishes, AEUK Newsletter #89
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