Teach Simple Past

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Leidian 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. There are four past tenses: past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. Past tenses are not too different from present tenses, except that past tenses obviously relate to past time periods. The past simple tense is used: For a past action when the time is given; When the time is asked about; When the action clearly took place at a definite...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Zhongzhou 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. Paste tense verbs are generally used to describe an action or event that has happened in the past. The four types of past tense verbs are: simple past tense; past continuous tense; past perfect tense; and past perfect continuous tense. The simple past tense is used to describe something that happened or existed in the past. To form these tenses we add "ed" or "d"...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Menglong 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. In this unit I learned the four past tenses that is Past simple, past continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous and how to use them. For example, past simple is for actions starting and ending in the past, past continuous is for actions starting in the past and continuing to the present, past perfect is for actions that started and ended...  [Read more]

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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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Geyi 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. Teaching key point: 1.Make tenses clear . 2.Compare tenses. Present with past 窗体底端 Task 4 –Give at least 2 teaching ideas (suitable for the Activate stage of a lesson) for the tenses below and give examples of sentences that you would expect your students to produce: a)Past simple--matching:present tense with past(do-did), discussing past holidays/ major...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Lincheng 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. This unit covered the past tenses. It includes the past simple, the past continuous, the past perfect, and the present perfect continuous. The past simple is used generally when a definite time is given, a definite time is implied, and when the definite time is revealed as a result of the question. The past continuous is used for interrupted past actions, gradual...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Dingqiao 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 helped me to review four basic past tenses which include: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous. Such points were considered: form, usage and common student mistakes. Past simple is used for acrions completed at a definite time in the past. Past Continuous can express an action which began before that time and perhaps...  [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 Lehong 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 unit is about the past tense which is not very much different from the present tense except that the former relates to actions which happened in the past. From what I gathered, the past tense is also divided into four different times that is; the simple past, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. Each of...  [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 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 Past tenses have almost the same structure but related to past time periods. Past tenses are four: past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. We form past simple: Regular verbs: Affirmative: subject + base form of the verb + d/ed Negative: subject + didn’t/did not + base form of the verb Question: did + subject + base...  [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 Gucheng 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. As a teacher we should be careful and aware about our use of grammar specially dealing with events explaining the time of action. Whether it be event that occurred in the past, an event that occurred in the present or an event that will occur in the future. I learned that most of my errors or mistakes made in the past is the use of irregular verbs. I also used to have...  [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]

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]

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]