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Vocabulary Key grammar
Teach, learn or study? Find out or know? Present perfect and past simple
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0 IELTS candidates often confuse teach/learn/study 0 Match the underlined verbs in these sentences
and find out/know. Circle the correct words in from Abi's talk (1-3) with the tenses (a-c).
these extracts from the Reading passage.
1 I've always enjoyed a past simple
1 This advertisement proves what comedians have travelling. b present perfect
@ wry/ found out for years. 2 It was a summer break. simple
2 Over the past half-century, scientists have 3 She's been living there c present perfect
known I found out much about babytalk. for 20 years now. continuous
3 Children don't study 1 learn to walk until their
bodies are ready. 6 Which sentence from Exercise 1 describes:
4 Knowing 1 Learning how to chat like an adult is
a something in the past that is now ended?
a gradual process.
b a situation that started in the past and is still
5 Yet we still do not understand this critical
going on?
period or know I find out why it ends.
c a feeling from the past that is still present?
6 Read these extracts from CLD to check your
~ Underline the verb forms in these sentences from
answers.
Abi's talk and say what tense they are.
learn, teach or study? 4 Before we went, we hired a car, which we
picked up when we reached the airport.
To learn is to get new knowledge or skills
5 I didn't know the word for tyre.
I want to learn how to drive.
6 1\venty minutes later, a recovery van arrived.
When you teach someone, you give them new knowledge or skills.
7 So, what have I learned from this experience?
My dad taught me how to drive. My dati learnt me hew te dfi•uv.
When you study, you go to classes. read books, etc. to try to 0 Match the sentences (1-7) in Exercises 1 and 3
understand new 1deas and facts.
with the uses of the past simple, present perfect
He is studying biology at university and present perfect continuous tenses (a-d).
a a past action or state that is clearly now over
know or find out?
(often with a time expression) 2.. • • •
To know something means to already have information about 1
something. b a situation or state that started in the past and
continues into the present (often with a time
Kelly knows what time the train leaves.
reference)
To find out something means to learn new 1nformat1on for the first
time. c a series of events that took place in the past
d an action or activity that started in the past and
Can you find out what time the train leaves?
is still continuing
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~ Work in pairs. Complete these questions with
teach, learn, study, know or find out. 0 @ IELTS candidates often make mistakes using
tenses. Circle the correct verb form in these
1 How many English words do you .... K1tPW .... ?
sentences.
2 Do you prefer to ... a language by talking
to people or reading books? 1 In the last few decades, there was ;(fj{IS--oeeTg a
3 If you worked in a school, which subject would rapid development in computer technology.
you prefer to ..... ? 2 The most popular country that UK residents
4 How would you .... . ... where the best have visited I visited in 1999 was France.
language schools are in your home town? 3 I was I have been responsible for taking care of
5 Did you .. ............... hard for your school exams? myself since I was eight years old.
4 Obesity became I has become a global problem.
0 Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions in 5 Sometimes people who have been on a diet eat
Exercise 3. even more afterwards than they have eaten 1 ate
before.
6 One day, the company has been I was shut down.
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