CELTA Language Related Assignment, item 1

I was going to phone you yesterday, but I forgot.

1. Generative Context
Today I am playing football at 4 pm. It is midday and my friend Brian has
phoned me to ask if I could drive him to the doctor today, at 6 pm. However,
after playing football, I was very tired, so when I got home I fell asleep and
forgot about Brian’s appointment. He phoned me the next day. I was going to
phone you yesterday but I forgot.

2. Meaning
This is a situation that happened in the past. Something that was happening
in the future at a past time. I had the intention to call you

3. Form

4. Phonemic transcription, including marking the stressed syllables and notes

on pronunciation

5. Concept checking questions (with answers), and, where appropriate, time

lines, diagrams, pictures, etc (please continue overleaf if necessary)

Today

Yesterday Tomorrow
X X X
Midday 6pm Now

End of day
CELTA Language Related Assignment, item 2

She must have gone home by now.

1. Generative Context

3. Form

Subject + must +have + past participle (gone)

(She) (Present perfect)

4. Phonemic transcription, including marking the stressed syllables and notes

on pronunciation

5. C Concept checking questions (with answers), and, where appropriate,

time lines, diagrams, pictures, etc (please continue overleaf if necessary)

Has she gone home? Yes

CELTA Language Related Assignment, item 3

Open the window, will you?

I wonder if you’d mind opening the window.

1. Generative Context
2. Meaning

3. Form

4. Phonemic transcription, including marking the stressed syllables and notes

on pronunciation

A) This is an instruction. We rise the tone of voice at the end of the

sentence to indicate a question.

5. Concept checking questions (with answers), and, where appropriate, time

lines, diagrams, pictures, etc (please continue overleaf if necessary)

CELTA Language Related Assignment, item 4

She’s phoned 3 times today.

She phoned 3 times today.

1. Generative Context
A) We are working at the medical clinic. It’s midday now and the doctor is out.
A patient who is very worried to get the results of an operation has been
calling during the day. When the doctor was back at 5 pm, I told him that the
patient has phoned 3 times and she will likely phone again before closing.
She’s phoned three times today

B) Today, while working in the hospital, Mary phoned to book an appointment.

She has been calling before we closed down for the day. She wanted to make
sure that she was booked in. She phoned 3 times today
2. Meaning
A) This sentence is present perfect. We use present perfect to say that a
finished situation in the past is connected to the present. At the moment of
speaking she has phoned 3 times and as the day is not finished yet, she
might call again.
3. Form

4. Phonemic transcription, including marking the stressed syllables and notes

on pronunciation

5. Concept checking questions (with answers), and, where appropriate, time

lines, diagrams, pictures, etc (please continue overleaf if necessary)

A) Am I talking about the past? Yes

Is it connected to the present? Yes
Is the action finished? Yes
Is she going to phone again? Maybe

Now: 4pm

9am X X X 6pm

Moment of
speaking

Today

B) Am I talking about the present? No

Is the action completed? Yes
Is she going to phone again? No

Now: 4pm
Today

9am X X X Tomorrow

End of day
CELTA Language Related Assignment, item 5

A) A stranger

B) A foreigner

1. Generative Context
A) Yesterday, I went to visit my auntie; she is 86 years old and she lives
alone. When I came in the living room, I saw someone sitting down on the
sofa. I have never seen that person in my life. He is a stranger.

B) My neighbour has recently moved in, and I have never talked to him.
Yesterday, he made a party at home and his level of English was
extraordinary good. I just found that he comes from Finland. He is a foreigner
2. Meaning

3. Form

4. Phonemic transcription, including marking the stressed syllables and notes

on pronunciation

5. Concept checking questions (with answers), and, where appropriate, time

lines, diagrams, pictures, etc (please continue overleaf if necessary)