Overdo vs Overdue - English Grammar - Teaching Tips
This video covers the difference between 'overdo' and 'overdue'. As these two words have a similar pronunciation and spelling, their usage is often confused. 'Overdue' describes something that is past a due date or past a scheduled time, for example: I need to pay all my overdue bills to avoid a late fee. 'Overdo', on the other hand, is used when speaking about doing something to an excessive degree, for example: Don't overdo the salt in this recipe or it will taste bad.
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Unit 8 describes the future tense and related rules, usage and teaching guidance with an emphasis on the seven common forms below:
1) future simple ? I will pick up late.
2) future continuous ? I will be getting on the train at five .
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3) future perfect ? I will have finished my exams by Monda.
4) future perfect continuous ? He will have been driving for two hours before he reaches Pari.
5) be going + infinitive ? It is going to rain late.
6) the present simple ? The train leaves platform 5 in ten minute.
7) the present continuous ? I am meeting her for coffee tomorro.
Future Simple The future simple forms are: Affirmative: I shall/will, you will, he she or it will + verb, we shall or will and they will Negative: I will not/shall not, you will not Question: Shall/ will I? Will yo.
Negative Question: Will/shall not? Will you not? Won?t Contractors: I?ll, you?ll The future simple is used for future facts and certainties, promises and predictions without evidence, assumptions, speculations and spontaneous decision.
Notably, ?shall? is used to make suggestions or invitations and in affirmative sentences, is more formal whereas ?will? generally expresses a stronger intention, coercion or determinatio.
Teaching ideas regard the future simple include fortune telling, palm-reading, with present simple in time clauses, going on holiday, winning the lottery, predicting future changes or what others will be like in the futur.
Future Continuous The future continuous is formed with subject + will + be + verb + in.
Affirmative: We will be waiting for yo.
Yes/No Questions: Will you be holding a red rose? Yes, I wil.
No, I will no.
Negative: I will not be wearing a dres.
The future continuous is used as follows: ? to say something will be in progress at a particular moment in time, ? to predict the present to say what we think or guess might be happening now, ? for polite enquiries referring to other people?s plans but not to influence the listener?s intentions, and ? to refer to future events which are fixed or decided without suggesting personal intentio.
Teaching ideas include arranging diaries, dates, trying to get out of the date from hell and illustrative situation.
Future Perfect The future perfect form is - will + have + past participl.
Affirmative: I will have worked here for 2 year.
Yes/No questions: Will you have worked here for 2 year.
Yes, I wil.
No, I will no.
Negatives: She will not have worked here for 2 year.
The future perfect is used to say that something will have been done, completed or achieved by a certain time in the futur.
The idea is to look back on the past (a completed action) from a future standpoin.
Future perfect generally uses an adverbial expression that signals when the future event will be complete.
Teaching ideas include fill in future diaries and elicit questions in the future perfect, invention of an extremely successful future career, chose a famous historical person and note dates in his or her life and a romantic novelist descriptio.
Future Perfect Continuous The future perfect continuous form is will + have + been + verb + in.
Affirmative: I will have been working for seven year.
Yes/no questions: Will you have been working for seven years? Yes, I wil.
No, I will no.
Negative: He will not have been working for seven year.
The future perfect continuous form is used to say how long something will have continued by a certain tim.
For example, by the time you get here, I?ll have been working for six hour.
The future perfect continuous often includes an adverbial expression that begins with b.
By next week, I will have been searching for work for two year.
Be going + infinitive (?going to? future) The be going + infinitive form is the verb ?to be? in the present tense + going to + base form of the ver.
Affirmative: I am going to play football next wee.
Yes/no questions: Are you going to play football next week? Yes, I a.
No, I am no.
Negative: I am not going to play football next wee.
The uses of the tense include intentions, predictions based on present evidence and plans (decisions made before speaking.
Teaching ideas include making holiday or birthday plans, going to game, itinerary from a courier, predictions based evidence and song.
Present Simple The present simple is composed of: Affirmative: Subject + base for.
Negative Subject + not + base for.
Question: Do + Subject + base form? The uses of the tense include to suggest a more formal situation, for timetable and schedules and to suggest a more impersonal ton.
Teaching ideas include compiling or sharing information from airport or railway schedules, writing company press releases and discussing weekly timetable.
Present Continuous The present continuous is made with the present simple tense of the auxiliary verb to be and the present participle of the main verb (verb + ing.
The structures are: Affirmative: Subject + auxiliary verb ?be? + verb + ing Negative: Subject + auxiliary verb ?be? + not + verb + ing Question: Auxiliary verb ?be? + subject + verb + ing The present continuous is used for definite arrangements (I will be going for a drink later) and for decisions and plans without a time frame (I?m leaving you.
Teaching ideas include diaries, schedules and role-pla.
The review of the future tense helped to formalize my knowledge of these rules that native speaker need to recall and will help me explain the concepts to future student.
2) future continuous ? I will be getting on the train at five .
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3) future perfect ? I will have finished my exams by Monda.
4) future perfect continuous ? He will have been driving for two hours before he reaches Pari.
5) be going + infinitive ? It is going to rain late.
6) the present simple ? The train leaves platform 5 in ten minute.
7) the present continuous ? I am meeting her for coffee tomorro.
Future Simple The future simple forms are: Affirmative: I shall/will, you will, he she or it will + verb, we shall or will and they will Negative: I will not/shall not, you will not Question: Shall/ will I? Will yo.
Negative Question: Will/shall not? Will you not? Won?t Contractors: I?ll, you?ll The future simple is used for future facts and certainties, promises and predictions without evidence, assumptions, speculations and spontaneous decision.
Notably, ?shall? is used to make suggestions or invitations and in affirmative sentences, is more formal whereas ?will? generally expresses a stronger intention, coercion or determinatio.
Teaching ideas regard the future simple include fortune telling, palm-reading, with present simple in time clauses, going on holiday, winning the lottery, predicting future changes or what others will be like in the futur.
Future Continuous The future continuous is formed with subject + will + be + verb + in.
Affirmative: We will be waiting for yo.
Yes/No Questions: Will you be holding a red rose? Yes, I wil.
No, I will no.
Negative: I will not be wearing a dres.
The future continuous is used as follows: ? to say something will be in progress at a particular moment in time, ? to predict the present to say what we think or guess might be happening now, ? for polite enquiries referring to other people?s plans but not to influence the listener?s intentions, and ? to refer to future events which are fixed or decided without suggesting personal intentio.
Teaching ideas include arranging diaries, dates, trying to get out of the date from hell and illustrative situation.
Future Perfect The future perfect form is - will + have + past participl.
Affirmative: I will have worked here for 2 year.
Yes/No questions: Will you have worked here for 2 year.
Yes, I wil.
No, I will no.
Negatives: She will not have worked here for 2 year.
The future perfect is used to say that something will have been done, completed or achieved by a certain time in the futur.
The idea is to look back on the past (a completed action) from a future standpoin.
Future perfect generally uses an adverbial expression that signals when the future event will be complete.
Teaching ideas include fill in future diaries and elicit questions in the future perfect, invention of an extremely successful future career, chose a famous historical person and note dates in his or her life and a romantic novelist descriptio.
Future Perfect Continuous The future perfect continuous form is will + have + been + verb + in.
Affirmative: I will have been working for seven year.
Yes/no questions: Will you have been working for seven years? Yes, I wil.
No, I will no.
Negative: He will not have been working for seven year.
The future perfect continuous form is used to say how long something will have continued by a certain tim.
For example, by the time you get here, I?ll have been working for six hour.
The future perfect continuous often includes an adverbial expression that begins with b.
By next week, I will have been searching for work for two year.
Be going + infinitive (?going to? future) The be going + infinitive form is the verb ?to be? in the present tense + going to + base form of the ver.
Affirmative: I am going to play football next wee.
Yes/no questions: Are you going to play football next week? Yes, I a.
No, I am no.
Negative: I am not going to play football next wee.
The uses of the tense include intentions, predictions based on present evidence and plans (decisions made before speaking.
Teaching ideas include making holiday or birthday plans, going to game, itinerary from a courier, predictions based evidence and song.
Present Simple The present simple is composed of: Affirmative: Subject + base for.
Negative Subject + not + base for.
Question: Do + Subject + base form? The uses of the tense include to suggest a more formal situation, for timetable and schedules and to suggest a more impersonal ton.
Teaching ideas include compiling or sharing information from airport or railway schedules, writing company press releases and discussing weekly timetable.
Present Continuous The present continuous is made with the present simple tense of the auxiliary verb to be and the present participle of the main verb (verb + ing.
The structures are: Affirmative: Subject + auxiliary verb ?be? + verb + ing Negative: Subject + auxiliary verb ?be? + not + verb + ing Question: Auxiliary verb ?be? + subject + verb + ing The present continuous is used for definite arrangements (I will be going for a drink later) and for decisions and plans without a time frame (I?m leaving you.
Teaching ideas include diaries, schedules and role-pla.
The review of the future tense helped to formalize my knowledge of these rules that native speaker need to recall and will help me explain the concepts to future student.
