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Language point 48 – ‘what if . . .?’
In Language point 41 we saw how the
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
is
often used in English to mean the
FUTURE
. Sometimes ... and lightning
umbrella – something for protecting you from the rain
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Language point 47 – ‘can’, ‘could’ and
‘should’
In Language point 18 we saw the
AUXILIARY
could /kυd/ used with
the
BASE
-
FORM
to ... main meaning of can is be able to:
Can
you swim? =Are
you able to swim?
I can
speak English. = I am able to speak English.
Dave can
ride a bike. = Dave is able to ride a bike.
Note that:
1 can doesn’t...
... find
something easily enough when I get back.
Language point 70 – ‘when’, ‘after’,
‘before’ + present
We’ve seen the
PRESENT
used in English to refer to the
FUTURE
– in
Language point 41 we saw the
PRESENT ... ____
S
TUART
____ ____
H
ELEN
____ ____
G
ERRY
____ ____
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Language point 68 – more time
expressions
We met a lot of time expressions in Language point 39, using
general words such as day, night ... and now I’m leaving!
9 This place has changed a lot ____ we were here last.
10 I’ve been learning English ____ a long time.
Exercise 5
Choose the correct verb from the brackets for each sentence...
...
1 NL Engine
Natural language processing in the Unisys natural
language understanding (NLU) system (Dahl,
Norton and Scholz (1998), Dahl (1992)) is done by
a natural language (NL) engine with ... into our
natural language understanding system. Client-
server architecture was used to make a large
volume of lexical information and a large
knowledge base available to the system at
development ... for use
with a general-purpose natural language
understanding system. The conversion of resources
such as Comlex and WordNet into a format usable
by our system was straightforward, and the
resulting...
... of English.
Proceedings of Natural Language Processing Systems
Evaluation Workshop, Berkeley, California, 1991.
5. Hopcraft, J. E. and Ullman, Jeffrey D. Introduction to
Automata Theory, Languages, ... of the system
P1]N2][SD you [V1 want [V2 to [V1 connect [P1 to
P 1]V1]V2]V1]SD]N2]V1]SC].
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Enter [N2ABS-UNIT the name [P1SYSTEMOF of
[N 2SYSTEM the system ... on text from
computer manuals.
1. Introduction
Many language understanding systems and machine
translation systems rely on a parser of English as the first
step in processing an input sentence....
... user’ of English, someone
who has ‘fully operational command of the language with only occasional unsystematic inaccuracies
and inappropriacies’ (International EnglishLanguageTesting System, ... Investigating Englishlanguage proficiency development of international students
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International EnglishLanguageTesting System, 2009, Information ...
<www.ielts.org/institutions/global_recognition/professional_associations.aspx>
International EnglishLanguageTesting System, 2010b, IELTS speaking band descriptors (public
version), accessed 10 November 2010 from <www.ielts.org /PDF/ UOBDs_SpeakingFinal .pdf& gt;
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... STATE STANDARDS for ENGLISHLANGUAGE ARTS & LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCE, AND TECHNICAL SUBJECTS
APPENDIX C | 33
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS for ENGLISHLANGUAGE ARTS & ... STATE STANDARDS for ENGLISHLANGUAGE ARTS & LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES, SCIENCE, AND TECHNICAL SUBJECTS
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COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS for ENGLISHLANGUAGE ARTS &...
... low-SES, Englishlanguage learners at the
intermediate level of fluency or above as measured by the California English
Language Development Test (CELDT), and enrolled in transition English lan-
guage ... written English.
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exposure to analytical/expository writing and their level of Englishlanguage ... where 93% of the stu-
dents speak English as a second language and face a number of educational chal-
lenges. Many teachers of struggling students and Englishlanguage learners (ELLs)
avoid teaching...
... learning, is a key element
of effective language teaching.
Type B
16. Breen M 2001b: The social context for language learning: a neglected
situation?, in EnglishLanguage Teaching in its Social ... approach to
language pedagogy, Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall Regents
This handbook aims to „synthesise the accumulation of knowledge about teaching
English as a second or foreign language ...
terms of culture, language and experience is the most significant factor in learning,
and that learning is not just about accuracy, but about fluency of skills in use. It
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