Stephanie and Beth,

Try to keep them away from these Wikipedia definitions until later, when you can 
use it as a quiz:

1.)  What's the matter with these definitions? (The answer is. of course, 
plenty!

2.)  Supply examples of the past perfect and the past perfect continuous.

3.)  Stephanie, there's a nice 'had' blooper in 'Doing Grammar'. If you haven't 
already covered it, ask them to find it.

(The underlining below is theirs and I can't make it go away.)

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presentperfect
 
A perfect tensethat expresses actioncompletedat the presenttime; in Englishit is 
formed by using the present tense of havewith a past participle  

	* Example: I have finished this definition.
presentperfectcontinuous
pastperfectpastperfectcontinuous
 
A tensethat expresses an unbroken actioncontinuing up to a certain time in the 
past. In Englishit is formed by using hadbeenwith a present participle. 


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From: Beth Young <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 8:18:54 AM
Subject: Re: ATEG list question: grammar in a computer lab?

Hi Stephanie,

I think you have all my "grammar voyeur" ideas . . . those would work well as 
in-class activities, I think.  Have students search (individually or in groups) 
and make a contest to see who can find the most examples of passive voice, 
sentence adverbs, or whatever you're studying.  


You could also have students research "peeve" sites and then you could check to 
see what credible reference works say about those peeves.  Or you could have 
students explore/compare different reference sites during class & report to the 
whole group: Merriam Webster's regular dictionary compared to its open 
dictionary, or different dictionary sites, or some of the other sites that 
students may not know about: visual thesaurus, wordnik, etc.  


Stephen Colbert's website has a "word generator" that is fun for a morphology 
activity--you put a base word in, and it adds a bunch of crazy suffixes.

A computer classroom is also a great setup for anything requiring writing or 
rewriting.  e.g., Take punctuation out of a sentence--leave that unpunctuated 
sentence on the screen--switch computers and try to put the punctuation back in 
to the sentence on that computer.  


David West Brown has written what looks like a fabulous book filled with grammar 
activities & lessons.  I'll bet that some of these could be adapted to your 
situation.  In Other Words: Lessons on Grammar, Code-Switching, and Academic 
Writing. Heinemann, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0-325-02188-1

I hope that you'll share your successes with us as the semester continues!

Beth

>>> "Schlitz, Stephanie" <[log in to unmask]> 09/07/10 8:24 PM >>>
Dear Colleagues, 

I was assigned to teach my English Grammar course (text: Morenberg's Doing 
Grammar 4th ed) in a computer lab this semester. While in the past I've found no 
need for my grammar students to use computers during class, since we do have 
computers this term, I'm greatly interested in any ideas others may have for 
leveraging computers/internet access during class. 


Thanks very much for any ideas you can offer. 

Stephanie
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Stephanie A. Schlitz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Linguistics and English
106B Bakeless Hall
Bloomsburg University


 
A tensewhich represents actions that occurred before other actions in the past; 
the pluperfecttense.
 
 
A tensethat expresses an unbroken actioncontinuing at the presenttime, started 
in the recent past. In Englishit is formed by using havebeenwith a present 
participle. 

	* Example: I have been working in this bank all my life.


    
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