IELTS HOPECO: Processes (Part 5) - Selecting the correct verb tense 

❖ SELECTING THE CORRECT VERB TENSE  

     For all processes, with a few exceptions, you use the simple present tense when writ­ing about processes. This verb tense is preferred, not because a process is a fact (something many students suggest as a reason to use the simple present) but because it is a routine or habit and, therefore, something that happens regularly. In the same way, if the examiner asks you to talk about a typical weekend or day at work, you would also use the simple present tense because you are talking about your routine or habit.

    Look at Exercises B and C again, and write a few sentences describing what happens in each process. Use the verbs that you selected. Try to keep the sentences simple but concise, and make sure that you write about each stage in order. When you have finished, discuss your sentences with a classmate.

❖ EXERCISE D

Now look at the beer making process below and complete the report by adding the correct verb form from the verbs in brackets.

The illustration highlights the various stages……………(involve) in the production of beer from the original ingredients of malted barley, hops, sugar, yeast and water.

The whole beer production process…………… (start) when malted barley………… (mill) before………………… (add) to water and then………………(mash). Following the mash-ing process, it…..……….(enter) the lautering phase which results in malted barley that is then……………(boil) along with hops and sugar. Spent grain is also produced as a by-product which…………………(feed) to cattle as feed. Once………..(boil), the material enters a whirlpool and is subsequently cooled before entering a large fermentation tank. It is at this stage that yeast……………….(add) to the mix. During this particular stage, carbon dioxide is produced and once fermentation is complete the yeast is also discarded. The liquid then………….(enter) a maturation phase before………………… (filter) and then bottled, canned or…………(put) into tankers for transportation.

 

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