Simple Past Rules

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liangdu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Jinzhong 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. Learning a second language is always going to have its challenges, however learning a second language in one's home country can and will add to the challenges as there are not as many opportunities to practice with native speakers. I had the privilege of living in Southeast Asia, Thailand to be more precise and one of the many things I was privileged to do was...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaya 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. Past tenses deal with past time periods. They speak of actions that have already taken place in some way. Past tenses follow the same rules as present tenses in the sense that there are four different aspects: past simple, past cotinuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. The system and strcuture remain the same except for the verb which is now in the past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nayun 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. Most of the rules that apply to the present tense do apply for the past. The breakdown of the tenses is similar for both the present and the past tense i.e simple, perfect, continuous, perfect continuous. As a native speaker, you take for granted the rules that build up the English language. One key thing that I noted was that most common verbs in have an irregular...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in QiandaohuZhen? 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. Past tenses are important in daily life because people sometimes need to retell stories to others. Therefore, knowing past tenses can enhance a student's English skills. Past tenses include past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. We use past simple to talk about actions that were completed at a definite time in the past. Past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaohetou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xinzhou 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. Learning English is always hard work, requiring a sincere desire to acquire the necessary knowledge. Without motivation, learning new information is impossible even with the best teachers and teaching AIDS.I personally think that when you start studing a language, a very important part of it is grammar. It is the basis of the basics in any language. Without...  [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 Longgang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bazhong 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. People know that grammar is the thing that every English learner has to learn since the beginning. And learners of any language will continue to learn as well as review grammar as long as they still use that language. Learning grammar is a continues process that learners can never stop. In English, English learners need to learn grammar because grammar is the key...  [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 Zhongzhang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Xianyang 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. Summative Task I chose to write my Summative Task on 22. Peculiarities of the English language. I did not realize how difficult English is until I became fluent in Spanish. I am currently studying French and I am pretty good at French. I have a basic knowledge of Esperanto. English is difficult for several reasons. 1. English is not a phonetic language. English...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Teaching grammar is one of the most challenging things for a teacher of English. As a student, it is essential to learn grammar as this gives you accuracy both in writing and speaking. This applies to every language, not only to English. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Adrian D. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. In many ways grammar can be compared to Mathematics; they both have a set of rules and exceptions that have to be known and practiced until you become so familiar with them that you don’t have to think about them when solving problems in everyday life (for example when you make a simple calculation like 7x8) or, respectively, in everyday communication. Also...  [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]

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 Daliu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Dezhou 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 English language is a peculiar, fascinating beast to teach and to learn. It comes with a long legacy of Anglo-Saxon and Norman invaders, empire building, and globalization of the 20th century. With multiple layers of rules and culture, it overflows with idiosyncrasies and peculiarities to confound native and learning speakers alike. Whether it’s pronunciation,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhaotong-shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| I have learned the system and structure of past tenses in this unit This unit gave me a better understanding of the past in English, as well as the past in French My overview of the content of this unit is learning how to make your sentence grammarly correct when using the Past Tenses,...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiangjia 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. Another fun unit that I also find very tricky to remember the certain rules to what makes a past tense, simple, continuous etc, I say and can write them without thinking but when it comes to deciphering what a sentence is ie. - past perfect continuous, past simple etc, I usually have to go back and study the rules to remember, its great to refresh myself with the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Luzhu 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. In this chapter, I had learned how to use and identify the rules and different forms of past tense like using past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. Secondly, I had learned that there are verbs that have an irregular past simple form which you cannot add ed in the end. In this chapter, I had learned how to use and identify the...  [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 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| This was easier for me than the present tense unit Past tense in English language is used to indicate a completed action in the past, the action that has started before and has been continuing, an action that started prior to completed action This unit has cover past tenses, which was...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wenping 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. I've learnt about there are the rules of learning tenses with very clear usages.Usages show learners how is each tense formed.Before moving to the forming tense, regular and irregular verbs should have practised very well.Then, learners will be required to understand the usage of each tense so that the application is correct.For example, past simple is for the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wenshan-zhuangzu-miaozu-zizhizh? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| This unit was beneficial to help me understand past tenses as it is something I have always battled with and is easy to make mistakes This unit was beneficial to help me understand past tenses as it is something I have always battled with and is...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daibu 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. In this unit I learned a great deal about usage of the past tense verbs. I learned the difficulty for students learning English when confronted with irregular past simple verbs. They have no rules or pattern and must simply be memorized. I also learned a great deal of activities that can be utilized to help students with the irregular verb tenses. In this unit I...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Haidai 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. In Lesson 6, I learned the difference between the Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Continuous tenses. The content is very similar to Unit 4 in that it teaches about rules, usage and structure - but for Past Tenses, whereas lesson 4 covers present tenses. I see why irregular verbs can pose a challenge to both teach and learn since they do not follow...  [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 BingtuannaomaohuNongchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Hami Dìqu — Kumul? 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 unit focused on the present tense which has four aspects in total; the simple present, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous. It explained the forms, usages as well as activate stage activities that teachers could use when teaching this topic to learners, and most importantly gave...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas Grammar is the rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in a natural language. Simply put, grammar is the general rule of a language. Language is logical; grammar tells us in which order we say words. It’s about how words become phrases; how words and phrases become sentences and how sentences become language. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Yang S. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Some of these rules are acquired naturally in childhood while others are acquired in the learning process under the guidance of a teacher. While most of the time, people don’t know which grammatical rule they are following when speaking, they know that what they...  [Read more]

Linda Dunsmore Teaching Ideas 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. For more activities check out: 10 Exciting Activities for the Past Simple For this activity, the students think of significant accomplishments in their lives. After sharing with the class what they have accomplished, the students should describe what they did in order to achieve this goal, for example they graduated college, studied English, took classes, etc. It’s important that the students use the simple past to talk about these actions. Also read: 7 Activities for Teaching the Present...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Kuangshan 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. This unit focuses on the four types of the Past tense as Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous. For each tense there are four areas that have been discussed. In the Form area are stated the grammatical construction and rules of the tense, its affirmative, negative and question form, and the formation of the regular and the irregular...  [Read more]

  In this episode, we cover the pronunciation of the word inflammable. This word is used as an adjective and refers to something that is easily set on fire. The word originates from Latin inflammare. 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. When it comes to revision of the Past tenses (Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Continuous Tenses) it is always a refreshment to go back to the basics and refresh the memory on the rules of...  [Read more]

Elizaveta Pachina Teaching Ideas 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. This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Corey B. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT. Within the three...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhaotong-shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| It was really great for me to learn more about tense in the English language I found this section to be a lot more difficult than the present tense Unit 6 was another grammatical lesson focused on the past tenses and sample ideas of how to teach them The past tenses systems and...  [Read more]