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7 Activities for Teaching the Simple Past for the ESL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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7 Activities for Teaching the Simple Past for the ESL Classroom
The simple past is one of the most important tenses in the English language. As it describes past actions, it's quite an easy tense to teach using a variety of fun and interactive activities. Here are 7 activities for teaching the simple past for the ESL classroom.
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1. Preparations
2. Good Days and Bad Days
3. Charades Series
4. Dear Diary
5. Get Out and About
6. Accurate Endings
7. Double Duty Review
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1. Preparations
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Past Simple Wh Questions Roll of the Dice
Here's a fun past simple Wh questions ESL game to help you teach your students how to make questions in the past simple tense.
To play the game, divide the students into pairs (A and B) and give each student a corresponding part of the worksheet and each pair two dice.
Student B begins by rolling the dice and adding up the numbers rolled.
Student A then formulates the past simple question that corresponds to the number on their worksheet.
For example, if Student B rolls a two, Student A asks question two on their worksheet, i.e. 'What did you wear yesterday?'
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A Summary of All English Tenses for ESL Teachers and Learners - TEFL Blog
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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A Summary of All English Tenses for ESL Teachers and Learners
The tense system of English is probably one of the most daunting areas for many speakers of other languages. Multiple tenses should be taught through explaining strict grammar rules while allowing the students to practice proper structure, as well as evaluating themselves with quizzes and examples.
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1. The Past Tenses
1) Simple Past Tense
2) Past Continuous Tense
3) Past Perfect Tense
4) Past Perfect Continuous Tense
2. The Present Tenses
1) Simple Present Tense
2) Present Continuous Tense
3) Present Perfect Tense
4) Present Perfect Continuous Tense
3. The Future Tense
1) Simple Future Tense
2) Future Continuous Tense
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Teaching Multiple Tenses: The Past, Present, and Future Tenses - TEFL Blog
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Teaching Multiple Tenses: The Past, Present, and Future Tenses
In English, varying tense forms will change the structure of a sentence and verb conjugation. When studying English grammar, learning different tenses can present a great challenge to learners as well as teachers. English language learners may have to adjust to a greater number of tenses in English than in their native tongue. According to ITTT course materials, experts will state there are twelve tenses in the English language. The changes informing English verbs which mark past, present and future tenses are a key concept for learners to grasp to communicate effectively.
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Peculiarities of the English Language
Present Tense
Past Tense
Future Tense
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What is Grammar in English - Everything EFL Teachers Need to Know - TEFL Blog
Tue, 11 Jul 2023 Federico Riva
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What is Grammar in English - Everything EFL Teachers Need to Know
English language grammar has a whole lot of definitions that focus on sound rules, words, sentences, and the combination and interpretation of other elements to make complete sense. To achieve this, the International TEFL and TESOL Training Lessons outline several aspects of the English language, such as parts of speech, present tense, past tense, future tense, phrasal verbs, and passive voice.
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PARTS OF SPEECH
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions
Gerunds
Articles
TENSES IN SENTENCES
The Present Tenses
Past Tenses
Future Tenses
MODAL AUXILIARY VERBS
METHODOLOGIES
Conclusion
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The Past Tenses - Past Simple - Mill Drill Activity
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we show you how to execute a mill drill activity for this tense. Here, the teacher provides the students with a survey or questionnaire with statements in the past simple tense. The students then go around the classroom and ask other students about their past experiences.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section... [Read more]
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English Grammar - Past Tenses Review - Teaching English Abroad Programs
This video reviews the past tenses. The past tenses form one part of ITTT's online TEFL courses. During the section on the past tenses you will learn the structure of each tense in its positive, negative and question forms as well as the usages of each tense. You will also learn some useful teaching ideas for the tenses.
Past Simple: Subject + verb in past simple form
I played
Past Continuous: Subject + was + present participle
I was playing
Past Perfect: Subject + had + past participle
I had played
Past Perfect Continuous: Subject + had + been + present participle
I had been playing
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The Past Tenses - Past Simple - Teaching Ideas
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we focus on useful teaching ideas for this tense. A great idea to practice this tense is a picture story. Here, the teacher provides the students with various photos or images and the students are asked to piece them together to make a story in the past.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the... [Read more]
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The Past Tenses - Past Simple - Structure
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. This tense is used to express completed actions in the past. In this video, we focus on the structure of the past simple.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
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The Past Tenses - Past Perfect - Structure and Usages
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past perfect tense. This tense is used to talk about a past action and a related past action before that. We relate two past actions to each other.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
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The Past Tenses - Past Simple - Usages
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we focus on the usages of the past simple tense, which mostly include completed actions at a definite time in the past.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
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The Past Tenses - Past Perfect Continuous - Structure and Usages
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past perfect continuous tense. This tense is used to talk about two actions in the past focusing on the fact that one of the two actions had been continuing at another point in the past.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
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The Past Tenses - Past Continuous - Structure and Usages
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past continuous tense and how it is formed and used. This tense is used to indicate that a certain action was in progress at a particular time in the past.
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The Past Tenses - Past Continuous - Teaching Ideas
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past continuous tense and suitable teaching ideas for this tense. The past continuous is very conducive to using pictures and talking about actions. We give our group of students cards with images and ask them to create sentences for what the people in the picture were doing at a certain time in the past.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each... [Read more]
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The Past Tenses - Past Perfect - Teaching Ideas
This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. In this video, we take a look at the past perfect tense and suitable teaching ideas for this tense. We'll ask our students to describe what a person in a picture had just done before the photo was taken.
Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.
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Teaching Multiple Tenses: Should You Do It and If So Which Ones? - TEFL Blog
Tue, 28 May 2019 Mark Crocker
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Teaching Multiple Tenses: Should You Do It and If So Which Ones?
Teaching multiple tenses might sound frightening as teaching a single tense can sometimes be a challenge on its own. However, while it might seem difficult the first time you try it, it isn’t as daunting as you would think. When teaching more than one tense at a time there are two main factors to consider: which tenses to teach together and what language level you are teaching.
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Simple Rules to Consider When Teaching Tenses
Future Tense Forms
Perfect Continuous Tenses
Other Tense Options
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Overview of All English Tenses - Present Tenses Overview - Present Perfect
The present perfect always relates the past to the present. This can be through the unfinished past, where we're expressing duration, such as 'I have played football for 10 years,' the indefinite past expressing experience in your life, such as 'I have been to Italy and Spain,' and also to show the present results of a past action 'I have broken my leg.' I broke it in the past and it remains broken in the present. Our final present tense is the present perfect continuous tense. Our example sentence here 'I have been playing football for 10 years' has the structure subject plus auxiliary verb 'have' or 'has' and then a second auxiliary verb here 'being' plus 'verb-ing'; 'I have been playing.' Very much like... [Read more]
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Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching.
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These recent units over tenses have been fairly challenging for me due it being so long since I have last... [Read more]
What is a TEFL curriculum? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What is a TEFL curriculum?
Across the globe, there are five widely accepted levels of EFL learners, which are represented in the teaching materials and book series available for students and teachers.
These levels are commonly referred to as:
Note: Any levels above these are typically termed 'advanced' and aren't usually taught in standard settings.
Please note that different curricula may categorize these levels in various ways. For instance, the Touchstone series from Cambridge uses a four-level scale, which, however, covers the same content as a conventional five-level scale. Another series, "Cutting Edge," encompasses six levels, including an advanced level, along with the standard five.
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Challenges and Principles of Teaching Tenses and Conditionals - TEFL Blog
Fri, 17 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Challenges and Principles of Teaching Tenses and Conditionals
In the early lessons of the course, I was able to better understand the components of the sentence, and the knowledge about word types was expanded. It includes a definite article, adjective, noun, verb, preposition, adverb, conjunction, gerund, personal pronoun.
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Tenses
Conditionals
The five main conditionals are as follows:
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What is a TEFL curriculum? - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ TEFL FAQs
What is a TEFL curriculum?
Across the globe, there are five widely accepted levels of EFL learners, which are represented in the teaching materials and book series available for students and teachers.
These levels are commonly referred to as:
Note: Any levels above these are typically termed 'advanced' and aren't usually taught in standard settings.
Please note that different curricula may categorize these levels in various ways. For instance, the Touchstone series from Cambridge uses a four-level scale, which, however, covers the same content as a conventional five-level scale. Another series, "Cutting Edge," encompasses six levels, including an advanced level, along with the standard five.
Let's examine some representative syllabus content for each level from the "Cutting Edge" series,... [Read more]
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DO – DOES – DID – DONE
The word "do" comes up a lot in English. This is because it can be used in a variety of ways and tenses. Let’s look at each one in more detail below.
TO DO – Present Tense
TO DO – Past Tense
TO DO – Past Participle
TO DO – To replace a verb
DO / DOES / DID – For Questions
Another example would be:
DO and DOES – For Emphasis
One thing to note here is that "did" is used for positive sentences in the past tense and that the main verb is in its base form.
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The Challenge of Teaching English Grammar - TEFL Blog
Sun, 15 Oct 2023 Federico Riva
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The Challenge of Teaching English Grammar
One of the most intimidating requirements for many English teachers is teaching English grammar. This is due to the many components of English grammar, including, but not limited to, parts of speech, as well as past, present, and perfect tenses. Conditionals, direct and reported speech, modals, and phrasal verbs all fall under the English grammar umbrella.
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Understanding the Components of Grammar
Navigating Tenses and Verb Forms
Exploring Voices and Modals
Mastering English Grammar
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Overview of All English Tenses - Present Tenses Overview - Present Continuous
Our second example sentence 'I am playing football at the moment.' is the present continuous tense. This has a different structure as the subject 'I', the verb 'to be' in the present tense 'am', 'is' or 'are' plus the verb with an '?ing' on the end. So here: 'I am playing football at the moment.' Whereas the present simple tense is used to talk about habits routines and facts, the present continuous tense is used to talk about actions in progress at the time of speaking or around the time of speaking. Our third example sentence is the present perfect: 'I have played football twice this week.' Here, the structure is the subject 'I', auxiliary verb 'have' or 'has' plus the past participle. The past... [Read more]
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English Grammar - Past Perfect Continuous - Teaching Ideas - TESL
In this TESL training video the teaching idea for the past perfect continuous tense involves giving the students a prompt and asking them to finish it with a sensible answer in the past perfect continuous tense. For example:
I didn't have dinner last night... because I had been snacking all day.
She passed the test... because she had been studying hard.
The past perfect continuous is a rarely used tense and is often quit confusing for learners of English as well as new English teachers. Taking a 120-hour online teaching course with ITTT will give the knowledge needed to make sure you know how to explain such tenses to students the moment you step into your first TESL classroom.
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Overview of All English Tenses - Present Tenses - Present Perfect - Prompt Teaching Idea
Here now is a teaching idea for the present perfect tense. If you remember back, one of the main usages of the present perfect tense is to talk about past experiences at an indefinite time. Here, will be having students work in small groups. Each small group will receive a prompt. This prompt has various past experiences. However, not conjugated into the question. The challenge for the students will be to take one of these prompts and to create a question based upon it. For example here they see 'win' and 'a competition'. One at a time, the students will take turns forming the question. 'Have you ever won a competition?' The other people listening to the question in the small group, will... [Read more]
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English Grammar - Past Simple - Structure -- TEFL Course
This video explores the structure and usage of the past simple tense. The different structures of this tense are:
Positive: Add --ed or --d to the base form of the verb
She worked last night.
Negative: Add did not or didn't before the base form of the verb
He didn't teach yesterday.
Question: Add did plus the subject before the base form of the verb
Did she drive yesterday?
The past simple tense is used to talk about completed actions in the past. For example:
I watched television last night.
In order to be a confident and successful English language teacher in the classroom, it is necessary to have a good understanding of the various English language tenses such as the one shown above. The best way to achieve this... [Read more]
Problems for English Learners in Russia - TEFL Blog
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Problems for English Learners in Russia
People from different countries inevitably face problems when they are trying to learn English. Russia is no exception. Let’s have a quick look at some typical problems that my fellow countrymen face.
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Grammar
Meaning
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As you may know, Russian is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, and some may think that it can cause problems. In reality, the Russians are fine with understanding the Latin alphabet and... [Read more]
Common Difficulties in Teaching English to Native Mandarin Speakers - TEFL Blog
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Common Difficulties in Teaching English to Native Mandarin Speakers
Learning a second language can be difficult, and this is especially true when the learners L1 and their target language are completely different in structure, sound, and tones. An English as a second language student who speaks French, German, or any other European language will have an easier task than one who speaks a language that is not of European origins. One such language is Mandarin Chinese.
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State of The Problem
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Overview of All English Tenses - Present Tenses - Present Perfect - Usages
The main function for the present perfect tense is to relate something in the past to the present. We can do so in a number of ways. First, we have indefinite past actions. 'I have been to Italy twice'. We're not concerned with when it happened, we just simply want to say that it has happened in the past. It's a fact of something I have done in the past but yet it's still true in the present. Unfinished past actions: 'I have lived here for three years'. I started living here in the past and it's still true now. With this usage, you will typically see time expressions. Finally, we have past actions with present results. I have lost my keys. It's implied that I still haven't found them. I lost them in the... [Read more]