Learn Past Simple

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Fanghua Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Qujing Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Like I stated with the 'present tense' unit, this unit brought out many of the same themes. When we think of a 'past tense,' we generally think of the past simple; something that happened in the past once and didn't occur again after that. But, as we learn through this unit, there are many different ways to illustrate something that happened in the past. We can form...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mabai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wenshan Zhuangzu Miaozu Zizhizh? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this unit we learn about the past tenses, their structure and usage. They are similar to the present tenses, except, of course, they are in the past. The four past tenses are Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous. We are also provided with a list of irregular verbs, both for the simple past form and past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Menghan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xishuangbanna Daizu Zizhizhou? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I have learnt from this unit that there are four past tenses. Simple past, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous. There are such similarities in their usage and form. We use them to talk about things that started and ended in the past or to talk about things that started in the past and continue to the present. Simple past tense is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Laozhuang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hanzhong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Teaching Multiple Tenses 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. There are three different tenses in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changhua Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hangzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit 6. Past Tenses, I have learnt evaluating this four Tenses which are Past simple tense expressed completed actions in the past. the second is Past Continuous tense indicates that a certain action was in progress at a particular time in past. Third, Past perfect tense first past action and the fourth, Past perfect tense which first continuous past action. We...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Alumni Experiences 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. There are three different tenses in English: the past, the present and the future. Each of these tenses has four aspects: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Zhong B. The past tense expresses or indicates a time that is in the past. For instance, if we want to say that an event occurred or something was the case at a particular time in the past, we use the past simple tense which is the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Balidian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Having covered the present tense in unit four, this unit moves on to the past tense and its four forms, past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. Each form was introduced with its grammatical structure, usage, example sentences, and ways in which these can be taught during the activate phase of an ESA lesson. The unit began with a...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hangzhou-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Hangzhou-shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| In this unit I learnt about Past like - Past Simple, Past Perfect, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous - their forms, usages, student errors/mistakes, sample activate stage teaching ideas In this unit I learnt about Past like - Past Simple, Past Perfect, Past Continuous, Past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinxing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weifang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The use of tenses in language is extensive and important. Tenses are key to communicating meaning, intention and purpose. Within the English language there are numerous tenses and the use of these tenses in the right place is key to ensuring the reader or listener is able to understand its meaning. When teaching tenses in a classroom a teacher must first establish...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaobazi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wenshan Zhuangzu Miaozu Zizhizh? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Past tense is simple yet complex. Understanding past tense, past continuous, and past simple is important for all new to the English language. Helping students understand the grammar of the English language will give them an easier pass to a better understanding, will also give them an easier pass to learn and enjoy. Past tense is simple yet...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas 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. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Phuong P. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. In unit 4, we have started talking about tenses in English. I looked at the four present tenses; the present simple, present continuous (sometimes called the present progressive), present perfect and present perfect continuous. Summary, the tense system is probably the area of the English language that causes students (and often...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pu-er-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Pu-er-shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| The past tense is there for us to tell stories of what happened in the past In this unit I learned that there are four past tenses - past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous This was an interesting chapter for me regarding the past This unit was helpful in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hangzhou-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Hangzhou-shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Tenses are always tricky, the chapter dealt with them in a simple concise manner and rules such as the verb form of "to be" and "ing always being characteristic of continuous forms are very useful Tenses are always tricky, the chapter dealt with them in a simple concise manner and rules...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tianhuangping Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I learn about the various past tense forms, that includes simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. Base form and regular form as well as irregular form. A crash course on past tense as with present tenses as well. I learn about the various past tense forms, that includes simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaofeng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I learn about the various past tense forms, that includes simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. Base form and regular form as well as irregular form. The situations needed for each specific tense. A crash course on past tense as with present tenses as well. I learn about the various past tense forms, that includes simple past,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaopu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Huzhou Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I learn about the various past tense forms, that includes simple past, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. Base form and regular form as well as irregular form. The situations needed for each specific tense and how each pattern is formed. A crash course on past tense as with present tenses as well. I learn about the various past tense forms,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Heshan Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Tai'an Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. I’ve been working as an ESL over the past ten years, and one of my biggest challenges for all ages is to teach some specific aspects that I already know that most of the class will be likely to have problems with. First and more expected to become a problem is the Present Perfect Tense. Therefore, if they do not really understand the meaning and its usages, it is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mengxian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Pu'er Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Unit number six focused specifically on the Past tenses. The unit covered each of the tenses: Simple Past, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, and Past Perfect Continuous. Within each of the classification of tenses I was able to learn about the usage of each of these classification of tenses, along with the form. Finally, for each of the classification of the past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhaoge Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Weifang Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Beginners are tough nut to crack because they have no previous knowledge of English. Thus, the word beginner tends to strike fear into the hearts of inexperienced teachers. There are categories of beginner that is absolute beginner. Absolute beginner these are students who have no English at all. These students does not have any knowledge any knowledge about English....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xishuangbanna-daizu-zizhizhou? Are you interested in teaching English in Xishuangbanna-daizu-zizhizhou? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| After learning about the present tense and its aspects, studying the past tense was pretty straight forward, albeit some forms like the past perfect continuous are used more rarely than others I learned the different types of past tenses from this unit...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Qinglongchang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuxi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. In this unit, we learnt different past tenses including simple past, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous, it clarifies the forms and usages of these past tenses as well as the common mistakes and errors made by students. Accuracy is very important for learning English, and getting to know the different past tenses is essential for the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yaojie Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuxi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. From this unit I have learnt a lot about past tenses in English. The Simple Past Tense, often just called the Past Tense, is easy to use in English. From Unit 4 we had already learnt how to use the Present Tense, so the Past Tense was easy. In general, the Past Tense is used to talk about something that started and finished at a definite time in the past. It is very...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yousuo Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuxi Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. The structure of the past tense is not very different from the present tense. The past tense obviously refers to the past time. However some of the points can be difficult for a low-level student to understand and specify. For example he can confuse the difference in usage between the past simple and present perfect. For most non-native English speakers the crucial...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shizi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhaotong Shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. This course unit continues providing knowledge about tenses. The past tenses include Simple past, Past continuous, Past perfect and Past perfect continuous. The formation of past tenses is similar to that of present tenses except that the past tenses relate to the past and the auxiliary verbs ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ in the present tense is used in the past when...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuxi-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuxi-shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| After completing Unit Six I feel I have a much better understanding of the topics covered in Unit Four After completing Unit Six I feel I have a much better understanding of the topics covered in Unit Four This revision is very useful This revision is very useful This part is about Past tense...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kashi-diqu-kashgar-kaxgar? Are you interested in teaching English in Kashi-diqu-kashgar-kaxgar? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| From my perspective, Unit 4 was not very difficult for me In this unit you will look at the four present tenses, the present simple tense, present continuous , present perfect and present perfect continuous This unit deals with a brief overview of verb tenses...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuxi-shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Yuxi-shi? Check out ITTT’s online and in-class courses, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English ONLINE or abroad! ITTT offers a wide variety of Online TEFL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| Past simple verbs end in -ed or -d In this section we learn the difference between past tenses such as past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous The unit focuses on the past tense Unit 6 addressed verbs in the past tense forms From this unit I have learnt a lot...  [Read more]