Operations automation stage

The stage of automation of operations with the structures of the passive grammatical minimum, similarly to those with the active grammatical minimum structures, has to do with performing activities at the level of an isolated sentence or a supra-phrasal unit. The content of this stage is mostly non-communicative receptive exercises in identifying and differentiating grammatical structures and guided-communicative exercises aimed at checking the students’ comprehension of the structures under study. These are question-answer exercises or exercises in translating into the mother tongue, e.g.:

Exercise 1. Read the sentences. Copy out the forms of the infinitive referring to the action directed at a person or object expressed by the subject (indefinite infinitive passive):

A new theatre will be built in our town.

I don’t like people to be late.

The work must be done in two days.

The captain ordered the portholes to be shut.

The students read the sentences silently and check their choice after the key: be built, be done, to be shut. This is an exercise in identifying a grammatical structure. It is advisable to process all the infinitive forms under study in such exercises.

Exercise 2. Read the sentences. Copy out the numbers of the sentences, where the action expressed by the infinitive, takes place simultaneously with the action expressed by the verb in the personal form, into the left column (continuous infinitive active); and into the right column – verb in the personal form the sentences, where the action, expressed by the infinitive, precedes the action expressed by the verb in the personal form (perfect infinitive active).

1) It is pleasant to be swimming in the warm water of the lake.

2) My friend must have forgotten his promise.

3) I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.

4) They must be walking in the park now.

1, 4 2, 3

All students read the sentences silently checking their choice by the key:

This is an exercise in differentiating grammatical structures. At first two forms are differentiated, then three and at last all the four. The names of different infinitive forms may be copied out instead of the sentence numbers.

Exercise 3. Read the sentence.

I am glad to have seen the film.

Give a short answer to the question:

Has the person seen the film?

This is an exercise in answering questions aimed at checking the students’ understanding of the grammatical structure.

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