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30/11/2022
MSc. Manuel Adrián Arrioja
This session will be about the verb be.

Warming up

Unscramble the word below.

ENSCCIE: SCIENCE
Now write in the bubble five words that you associate with it.

knowledge, discipline, scientists, research, transformation

Reading

Read the paragraph in the next bubble. Then answer the questions.

What title would you give to the paragraph?

Title: research and scientific rigor

What does the paragraph have to do with the unscrambled word above?
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 The paragraph is related to science because in it, there are contributions from
different authors to scientific methodology.

Find in the paragraph:

A year of publication 2006

An author Rajasekaret

A synonym of research investigation

Ways of getting information for research experiment observation, analysis, conparasion and reasoning.
Meaning of ubiquitous that it's everywhere__
Grammar

“To be or not to be; that is the question.”

What is the meaning of this famous quote?

Well it means “ To Live or not to Live” , at this point Hamlet discusses how painful
and miserable human life is, and how death (specifically suicide) would be preferable,
would it not be for the fearful uncertainty of what comes after death

The verb be

Among other contexts, the verb be is usually found in sentences related to:

 Introductions

My name is Bond, James Bond.

This is my friend Dr. Morin.

I’m Mr. Freire.

 Professions

I’m a teacher.
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She is a medical doctor.

They are scientists.

 Definitions

“Research is a logical and systematic search for new and useful information on a particular topic. It is an
investigation of finding solutions to scientific and social problems through objective and systematic
analysis”.

The verb be has the following forms:

The verb be
Infinitive form Be
Present simple: + I am, I'm We are, we're
You are, You're You are, you're
He/She/It is, He/She/It's They are, they're
? Am I? Are we?
Are you? Are you?
Ias he/she it? Are they?
- I am not, I’m not We are not, We aren’t, We're not
You are not, You aren’t, You're not You are not, You aren’t, You're not
He/She/It is not, He/She/It isn’t, He's They are not, They aren't, They're
not not

Past simple + I was We were

You were You were
He/She/It was They were
? Was I? Were we?
Were you? Were you?
Was he/she/it? Were they?
- I was not, I wasn't We were not, We weren't
You were not, You weren't You were not, You weren't
He/She/It was not, He/She/It wasn't They were not, They weren't
Past participle Been
Present perfect has/have been
Past perfect had been
Present participle Being
Present am/is/are being
continuous
Past continuous was/were being

We use the infinitive form be with modal verbs:

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 It will be dark soon.
They might be tired.

The verb be is a link verb. It is used:

 with a noun phrase:

My mother is a teacher.
Bill Clinton was the president of the US.

 with an adjective:

This soup is very tasty.

The children were good.

 with a prepositional phrase:

John and his wife are from Manchester.

The flowers are on the table.

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-
reference/the-verb-be

The sentences below were taken from Labbas (2013). Match the items on the right to the items on the left.

Contextualizing the verb be

1. Learning a. is in perpetual evolution.
2. The aim of this paper b. is to have a deep understanding of the
construct of personal epistemology.
3. the focus c. is a review to research that describes the
stages of the development of
epistemology
in education.
4. The strategy for the analysis d. was the first scholar to conduct empirical
research with college students to
investigate their intellectual development.
5. Piaget (1950) believes that knowledge e. is to explain the concept of personal
epistemology.
6. The aim of reviewing the three categories f. is mainly on the different models in this
area of research.
7. Perry (1970) g. is to understand the constructs related to
epistemological development.
8. The purpose of this review h. is a continuous process.

Make a sentence about your research proposal/project. --- The decoloniality of curricular management is key to the educati

The purpose of this research is to … The transformation of curricular management in private schools in the San Blas territor
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