Teaching the English past simple verb tense to ELL or ESL students is rather straightforward after you'vetaught the present simple. Students will be familiar with the idea ofauxiliary verbsin the question and n
With so many tenses in English, learning not just what they are but how to use them and understand them correctly can take years to perfect. As a teacher, teaching tenses can be an overwhelming task. Fortunately, there are tons of great, readily available resources you can use to teach En...
The simple past is a verb tense used to refer to an action or a series of actions that were completed in the past. Use the simple past tense to talk about things that happened before or existed before now, to talk about a past state of being, or to make clear that something occurred...
◆5-6-2:过去时(past); ◆5-6-3:一般式,动词原形(simple,the base form of verb); 【1】→与主语保持一致(agreeing with the subject); 【2】→表明时间和时态(indicating time and tense); ◆5-6-4:进行式 【1】→动词原形加-ing;(adding –ing to the base form); 【2】→与be连用(using ...
What students need to know about past time expressions I would probably teach past expressions in this order, starting with the time expressions that they hopefully already know from talking about the present: “at…” with times (e.g. “at seven o’clock this morning”) ...
Do you get confused using English tenses? In todays lesson, I teach you how and when to use the Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses. Its easy to confuse the two, and many English students make mistakes with these tenses. In this grammar lesson, you wi
As I have already mentioned, we are going to start with simple past tense. To do this, we need to learn some verbs or I’d better say someinfinitives. All we have to do is finding theinfinitives(to + verb, like: to go).
How to teach grammar. In my opinion , the best way to teach students English is to teach them the typical signal words. For the Simple Present Tense, the signal words are: every, usually, sometimes, always, etc. For the Simple Past Tense, the signal words are: last, ago, yesterday, ...
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The present continuous tense, also referred to as the present progressive tense, can be taught to high school students to maximize their understanding of its proper grammatical use.FormStudents should first understand the form of the present continuous tense. It is the linking verb am/is/are ...