Teach Past Forms

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangguang 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 section we learn the difference between past tenses such as past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. There is a pattern seen with all continuous forms, all perfect forms, and all perfect continuous forms. For example, in the continuous form the use of the verb "to be" can be used in present, past or future tense with the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jiupu 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. As in the previous unit dealing with present tense forms, this unit focused on the form, correct usage and common mistakes made when using past tense. I was introduced to past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past paste perfect continuous. I was given examples of common usages for each form as well as some ideas for how to teach them in class. An aspect of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Huzhou-shi? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| 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 In this unit I learned more about the four different features of the past tense: past simple, past continuous, past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shangyong 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. This was a good unit.Past tense forms may be very confusing but with this explicit explanation given here, It is simply understood. The past simple form was discussed. This form is usually used for events that happened in the past at a particular time. It is formed by adding "ed" in at the end of a regular verb. It is important though to note...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bingtuan Yisansan Tuan? Are you interested in teaching English in Tacheng Diqu? 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. There are three different times in English: the present, the past and the future. Each of these times has four aspects: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. Twelve in all. Each of them has three forms: affirmative or positive, negative and question. Present tense has 4 tenses: present simple, present countinuous, present perfect and present...  [Read more]

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 Jingxing 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. In this unit, I have systematically acknowledged the past tense. It makes me dwell on how to teach this grammar and how to let learners practice. And also the how to help learners acquire the complex form of past form. Past tense which doesn’t exist in Chinese grammar is always ignored by Chinese learners. Therefore, if past tense can be taught with present and...  [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 Langao Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yantai 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 English, there are four present tenses: simple present, present continuous,present perfect and present perfect continuous. Simple Present Form: Use the base form of a verb, adding an /s/ to the end of the verb if the subject is singular. (Unless the verb is irregular, in which case other rules may apply.) Uses: Use 1: Actions that are habitual or routine EXAMPLES:...  [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 Guali 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. There are four past tense forms including the past simple, the past continuous, the past perfect, and the past perfect continuous. The past simple is used as a past action when the time is given when the time is asked about, when the time is not mentioned and the action occurred, and when the time is definite as a result of questions and answers in present perfect....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yuhe 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. Past tenses relate to an action and/or event that happened in the past. Past systems are comprised of several tenses that differ depending upon the time being involved. Past simpleis used when an action is finished in the past. It is important for EFL teacher to make differentiation between regular and irregular verb forms so that learners won’t be confused as the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xindeng 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. This unit delved deeper into the english tense system (ETS) specifically past tense forms. It highlighted the differences of regular and irregular verb forms by showing how present, past and future tense affects the verb’s form. It also showed how to recognize the use of simple or perfect sentence form by explaining the differences in sentence structures. This...  [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 Wutubulage Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bo'ertala Menggu Zizhizhou — Bo? 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 chapter teaches about the present tense.Apart from the present tense,we also got the the past future tense,all of which have the simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous forms. The present tense consist of regular and irregular verb forms. Here we can classify them into affirmative, negative and question types. Affirmative (...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Simaogang 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. This was an interesting chapter for me regarding the past. past simple-used to express completed actions in the past (ed-d to base form) ( did/didnt before base form )(did + s before base form ) past cpntinuous - indicates that a certan action was in progress at a particular time in the past.(s+was/were+verb+ing)(s+was/were+not+verb+ing) (was/were +s+verb+ing) past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaoshan Jingji Jishu Kaifaqu? 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 unit 6, past tense is simply expressing the past. It refreshes my memory on unit 4 present tense also. In general, all the tense are indicated to describe the past, present or future in a conditional form. I have learned more about activating teaching ideas on each session which gives me the ideas how to assign activities during the class. In...  [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 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 Xinchang 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. In this Unit, we have learned 1. past simple tense 2. past continuous 3. past perfect tense 4. past perfect continuous and their usages as well as affirmative, negative and question forms. Thank you for giving me various nice teaching ideas. Where can I get these comics, please？I noticed that when the video gave examples about different sentence forms, the teacher...  [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 Bingtuan Nongjiushiyiliuba Tuan? Are you interested in teaching English in Tacheng Diqu? 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. There are four present tense forms including the present simple form, the present continuous form, the present perfect form, and the present perfect continuous form. The present simple form is used for habitual or routine actions, permanent situations, facts, commentaries, directions, instructions, newspaper headlines, present stories, and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dulong 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 tenses relate to past time period. They have the same forms as Present tenses. The difficulty for students will be learning all forms of irregular verbs. Past simple shows completed action in the past. Past Continuous express actions in progress those happened in the past. We can also use it in description. It usually requires some form of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baijiazhuang 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. Class level: High Beginner Room: 4 Expected number of students: 14 Time: 90 Language points: Simple Present Tense is the previous knowledge of the learners. Teaching aids: board and pens, projector, pictures, handouts, board game cards. Learner objectives: By the end of this lesson students will be able to: 1. recognize and write verbs using the past tense. 2....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mengyang 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. This unit covers the past tenses ; past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. First, past simple is used to express completed actions in the past. The form of past simple is divided into regular verbs (cry->cried, work->worked) and irregular verbs (see-saw). To teach past simple, teachers can use curriculum...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yongxing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ya'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. From this unit I've leant about different parts of speech. There are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, pronouns, gerunds, prepositions and conjunctions. About nouns i've learnt that they can be common, compound, proper, collective, abstract and plural, and also they can be countable or uncountable. All verbs we can divide into transitive and intransitive....  [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 Yongping 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 six was a relatively short unit that dealt with the past tense in English language. In this unit, I came across the four forms of the past tense: simple past, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. The formula to construct a sentence in affirmative, negative and question form in respect to the four forms of past tense were also taught in this...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Nazhang 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 lesson outlined the 4 main past forms and their usage. In English language, there are 4 Past Tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous, Past Perfect. Each tense can be used in different situations and can convey a different meaning. The past form of the verb differs, therefore some verbs can take a regular form, by adding "ed" at the end of...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wenwu 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. This chapter centers on past tense ( with roles like the present tense). It's divided into Simple past tense with form as Affirmative (add "ed" or "d" to the base form) Negative (add "did not" before the base form) Question (did+subject +base form)mainly for regular verbs.irregular verbs are studied like that example see-saw,go-went. Usages include completing actions in...  [Read more]