Unit 10: Review

Review activities

Activity 1: Technical terminology about time

Work in alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

1. period in time vs. point in time
2. time interval vs. time instant
3. absolute time vs. relative time (e.g. tomorrow)
4. sidereal time vss, system time

Activity 2: Discussing time travel

Work in pairs or threes if possible. Use the following expressions and discuss the concept of time travel. Use examples from science fiction, e.g. Dr. Who or Back to the Future.

1. time dilation
2. spacetime
3. the arrow of time
4. directionality

Activity 3: Technical terminology to discuss tense

Work in alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

1. time vs. tense
2. tense vs. aspect
3. aspect vs. modality
4. progessive aspect vs. simple
5. perfect aspect vs. simple

Activity 4: Labelling verb tenses

Work in alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

1. We have been studying this course for ages!
2. I enjoy studying.
3. We will be taking a test next week.
4. He had been walking for an hour when ...
5. I'll be back [the Terminator].
6. They are trying to solve the problem.
7. She has been studying at that workstation for five hours.
8. At last, I have finished the code.
9. I will have finished my code by midnight.
10. We did it!
11. My dog had been running in circles when...
12. They had gone by the time...

Activity 5: Providing examples of verb tensess

Work in alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the differences between the following terms.

1. Present simple
2. Past simple
3. Future simple
4. Present perfect simple
5. Past perfect simple
6. Future perfect simple
7. Present progressive
8. Past progressive
9. Future progressive
10. Present perfect progressive
11. Past perfect progressive
12. Future perfect progressive

Activity 6: Explaining types of verbs

Work in alone, in pairs or threes. Explain the following terms and provide an example for each.

1. lexical verb
2. modal verb
3. finite verb
4. non-finite verb
5. stative verb
6. dynamic verb
7. punctual verb
8. durative verb

Master list

Activity 7: Vocabulary

This list contains of the important technical terms related to time and tense. The terms are grouped by the unit in which they were introduced.

Work alone, in pairs or groups. Describe, explain and provide examples for each of these terms.

1. absolute time (e.g. 1 April 2022)
2. relative time (e.g. tomorrow)
3. sidereal time
4. system time
5. instant (e.g. date, point in time)
6. interval (e.g. duration, period in time)
7. time dilation
8. spacetime
9. the arrow of time
10. directionality


11. close (in time, reality or register)
12. remote (in time, reality or register)
13. finite verb
14. non-finite verb
15. tense
16. aspect
17. modality
18. simple
19. non-perfect
20. progressive aspect
21. perfect aspect


22. indexical time
23. deictic time
24. period (i.e. interval)
25. point (i.e. instant)


26. Present simple
27. Past simple
28. Future simple
29. Present perfect simple
30. Past perfect simple
31. Future perfect simple
32. Present progressive
33. Past progressive
34. Future progressive
35. Present perfect progressive
36. Past perfect progressive
37. Future perfect progressive


38. context
39. cotext
40. lexical meaning
41. grammatical meaning
42. functional meaning
43. lexical verb
44. modal verb
45. stative verb
46. dynamic verb
47. punctual verb
48. durative verb


49. bijectives
50. surjectives
51. injectives
52. domain
53. arguments
54. codomain
55. image
56. timeline
57. single events
58. repeated events
59. continous events


60. rule-based parsing
61. probabilistic parsing
62. regular expressions


63. natural language processing (NLP)
64. NLP pipeline
65. part-of-speech (POS) tagging
66. POS tagset
67. dependency parsing
68. parse tree
69. NLP Compromise
70. Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK)