Unit 1
Project Reporting
Tense Review
Focus: Two colleagues discussing the progress of a marketing campaign
1. Listening
1.1 Information transfer
Listen to the dialogue in which two colleagues discuss the progress of a marketing campaign. As you listen, complete the key for the project planner below.
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1.2 Communication
In the listening extract, the speakers had a clearly defined relationship-boss/subordinate. What made this so clear?
2. Presentation
In the dialogue, the speakers used a range of tenses to talk about different events:
l The Past Simple
l The Present Perfect
l The Present Simple
l The Present Continuous
l Future forms with ‘will’ and ‘going to’.
We can position the tense usage on a time continuum:
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Look in detail at how these tenses are used:
2.1 The Past Simple
This tense can be used to describe a state, or an event or a series of events which took place clearly in the past.
For example:
We ran the market test for 2 months, until the middle of November.