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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Overview Past Simple Past Continuous - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this video, we provide you with a useful overview of the various past tenses. We focus here especially on the differences between the past simple and past continuous.
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Great unit for introduction to the intricacies of teaching English as a foreign language. As someone that has no prior experience, I already feel much, much more comfortable being at the... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Overview Past Perfect Past Perfect Continuous - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
In this video, we provide you with a useful overview of the various past tenses. We focus here especially on the differences between the past perfect and past perfect continuous.
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After this unit of study, I learned the different ways of evaluating students? levels and progress. As an English teacher who has three years of teaching and tutoring experience,... [Read more]
Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Perfect Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Structure - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Usages - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Continuous Ideas - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Simple Mill Drill - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Continuous Structure Usages - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Perfect Structure Usages - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Perfect Usage Online Teaching Course Efl - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
The past perfect is used as the past in the past to talk about events that happened in the past before another past event. For example: The concert had started before I arrived. The past perfect is covered in more detail in ITTT's 120-hour online teaching course. There are other courses available from 60-hour courses covering teaching skills to a 250-hour Diploma in TESOL. You can also take a specialisation teaching young learners or in teaching business English. Whatever your requirements are, if you are looking to become qualified to teach English from your own home, ITTT will have the right online teaching course for you.
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Tefl reviews - Teaching English Esl Efl Tips/past Tenses Past Perfect Continuous Structure Usages - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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.
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Past Simple Quiz - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a fun English ESL worksheet to practice the past simple tense for ESL students.
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Past Simple Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun worksheet to complete a summer holiday store with past simple tense.
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The Past Simple Tense - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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The simple past tense is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. It indicates an action which is completed at a definite time in the past.
The simple past tense is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. It indicates an action which is completed at a definite time in the past.
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Present, Past, Perfect Participles - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a great infographic showcasing the most important English verbs and their participle forms.
Participles are structures that are actually made from verbs, but we characterize them by showing any situation, object or person.
We use participles to give detailed features of the object they point to on any subject they are talking about.
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Past Simple Irregular Verbs Crossword - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here is a fun crossword puzzle for your EFL students to practice the past simple irregular verbs. Have fun!
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Past Simple Irregular Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This board game is a great speaking practice on some past simple irregular verbs.
Students take turns asking and answering questions about actions which happened in the past. They can practice some prepositions of time as well for more advanced students.
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Simple Past Verbs Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun board game for teaching or revising the past simple tense. Students advance on the board with dice, when they land on a square they are asked to make a sentence using the picture clue and the verb provided.
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What were they doing? Past Continuous Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This worksheet is great for practicing the past continuous tense. Students need to use a verb in the simple past and a verb in the past continuous.
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Hyper Harry's Holiday - Simple Past Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun activity to practice the simple past. Students look at the images and talk about what Harry did on holiday.
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Present, Past and Future Tense Exercises - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a useful worksheet with exercises to practice the present, past and future tenses.
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Past Perfect Tense (Structure & Examples) - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Past perfect tense indicates the finished or completed actions of the past. For example, I had taken eaten two pieces of cake before my friend finally showed up.
Past perfect tense indicates the finished or completed actions of the past. For example, I had taken eaten two pieces of cake before my friend finally showed up.
Subject + had + Past participle (v3)
To make the positive sentences, we use the following structure:
Subject + had + Past participle (V3)
Examples of positive sentences
We add ‘not’ after auxiliary verb to make the sentence negative.
Subject + had + not + Past participle (V3)
Examples of negative sentences.
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Past Simple Tense ESL Writing Activity - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun ESL printable writing activity worksheet for learners of English to practice the past simple tense with both regular and irregular verbs.
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10 Exciting Activities for the Past Simple - TEFL Blog
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Grammar lessons can often be quite boring for students so it is important for us as TEFL teachers to have fun activities that encourage the students to use the target language creatively and foster high student talking time. Below is a list of 10 activities that can be used for lessons on the past simple.
Matching pairs
Diary
Telling Stories
Find Someone Who …
When I was young
Memory games
Irregular verb bingo?
What did you do (…)?
Past simple battleships
Good day/Bad day
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Past Perfect Continuous Teaching Ideas Tesl Efl - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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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10 activities for the past simple ▷ Infographic - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Having a variety of interesting and fun activities to draw on is an important part of keepingyour lessons fresh and your students engaged in learning, especially when it comes to teaching grammar points. In this graphic we look at 10 different activities for the past simple. The aim of these activities is to provide high student talking time using the target language. They should also encourage the students to produce the language themselves with varying amounts of creativity.
Matching Pairs’ is a great activity for recognising irregular past simple verb forms. The activity helps students remember the different forms and encourages them to produce their own sentences. The ‘Diary’ activity encourages students to use the past simple with... [Read more]
18 Dialogs to Practice the Past Simple - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here is a collection of dialog cards to practice the correct usage of the past simple tense.
Cut out the dialog cards and hand them out to your students, who form answers using the past simple tense.
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Present Perfect vs. Past Simple Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great ESL board game to practice using the present perfect and past simple tenses in English.
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