CELTA – PREINTERVIEW TASK 2 SUBMISSION DATE : 25/7/2018

a) She smokes
b) She is smoking
c) She has smoked
d) She has been smoking.
e) Sita wrote a letter
f) Sita had written a letter when I arrived
g) Sita said she had been writing a letter all night.
h) It will rain tomorrow
i) We will be staying
j) We will have arrived by 5pm next week
k) Past simple – She wrote the letter
Past simple passive – The letter was written by her
l) Present perfect simple – I have written the letter
Present perfect simple passive – The letter has been written by me

a) It’s a present continuous tense. Indicates an irritating behavior that might end some day
Here the verb ‘combs’ is his part of routine. It’s a present tense
b) Present tense .Its a fact/information about the person
Present continuous tense. Refers to an action she is currently doing
c) The past participle of verb ‘have’ is used to indicate the action in past tense. The action is
completed long back.
Present perfect tense : Here the action is completed few minutes back. The verb have acts as an
auxillary verb. ‘had’ acts a past participle of main verb ‘have’
d) Both the sentences have more than one verb.In some cases the first verb is followed by the
second verb with “to” (to + verb : Infinitive) while other case the second verb follows the first
with “ing” (verb + ing : Gerund)
In the first case the verb stopped is followed by infinitive verb . The meaning of the sentence is
the person stopped doing an action (may be the person stopped moving or stopped walking ) to
do another action (to listen to the music)
While in the second sentence the verb stopped is followed by gerund .The meaning of the
sentence is different from the first.
She was listening to music , now she doesn’t.

a) Pho+to+graph+er
b) Pho+to+graph+ic
c) Po+li+tics
d) Ad+ver+tise+ment

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CELTA – PREINTERVIEW TASK 2 SUBMISSION DATE : 25/7/2018

e) Ob+ject+ive
f) Ad+vi+se
g) Prac+tic+al
h) In+vest+ment
i) In+tox+ic+ation

a) You must stay at home > something that is necessary.

You must have left it at home > probability/advice
You really must come round for a drink sometime > invitation

b) I’ll help you with the washing up > offering help to do something
I’ll retire when I’m fifty > Possibilty
I wont tell anyone > Promise
c) He should be on the train by now > logical conclusion
You should take an aspirin> giving advice

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