Teaching Past Tense

  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. 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. Given that this was an introductory unit, I do not feel I learned a significant amount of information, but do appreciate it was more of an over view. The acronyms were good information and helpful. It was interesting to learn what salaries ESL teachers...  [Read more]

  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. 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. The unit on Equipment and Teaching aids gives an insight to the different types of equipment available for the classroom and also how to effectively use them. It also serves as a very useful online directory for teacher resources including...  [Read more]

  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. 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. This unit was good in learning about the different materials teacher may use in the classroom to effectively teach their lesson. Materials can be either...  [Read more]

  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. 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. Lesson planning...  [Read more]

  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. 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. From this unit I learnt of the...  [Read more]

  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. 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. This lesson teaches the various forms of the future tense, including various forms of present tense (present simple and present continuous) that can be used for events that...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflcourse.net This video reviews the past tenses. The past tenses form one part of ITTT's online TEFL courses. During the section on the past tenses you will learn the structure of each tense in its positive, negative and question forms as well as the usages of each tense. You will also learn some useful teaching ideas for the tenses. Past Simple: Subject + verb in past simple form I played Past Continuous: Subject + was + present participle I was playing Past Perfect: Subject + had + past participle I had played Past Perfect Continuous: Subject + had + been + present participle I had been playing To learn more about the past and other tenses check out our other videos online and consider taking one of our TEFL courses. A teaching certificate from ITTT will enable you...  [Read more]

  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. 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. In this unit, it taught me how to develop the reading and listening skills of the students. It discuses the different strategies to motivate the students interest to the topic they are...  [Read more]

  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. 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. Again, such few questions is great and scary! I love that you all have faith that I had studied the material well enough to answer 10 short questions; however it is a bit...  [Read more]

  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. 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. I have learnt that the intelligence of a student alone is not enough but requires a teacher's input for them to learn English.A teacher can teach using different...  [Read more]

  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. 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. One more \"piece of...  [Read more]

  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. 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. This unit is very important for i have been able to go through the tips on how i can make a good lesson plan and also how its very...  [Read more]

  These 10 teaching ideas for the past simple tense will encourage your students to use the language in fun communicative ways. Grammar lessons can often be quite daunting and boring for students so it is important to have activities that students will enjoy doing. These ideas offer plenty of student-to-student interaction and allow students to draw on their own life experiences as well as encouraging them to use their imagination. 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...  [Read more]

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]

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 Simao 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 learned that there are four past tenses - past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. Each past tense has a specific usage and grammar structure. Past simple (for regular verbs) is V+ed/d . Irregular verbs need to be memorized by students. Usage: past action at a specific time (when the time is given or not, but the action...  [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 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 Haizi 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. A refresher on past tenses was extremely beneficial. Often when we speak of things that happened in the past, we do not consider the breakdown of what form of past tense it is. Considering the past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous in sentence construction is important when teaching non-native speakers about how to speak about things...  [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| This units illustrates different past tenses and their usages, such as past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous tense The unit gives a reader essential information about the four types of the past tense: past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past...  [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 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 Hongxingqiao 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. The forms of the past tense are similar to the present tense. There are four forms of the past tense, the past simple, the past continuous, the past perfect and the past perfect continuous tense. The past perfect and past perfect continuous forms are identified by the past tense of the verb 'to have'and the past particle form of the verb. The past continuous and...  [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 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]

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 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 Minle 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 my opinion Tenses are very important so in this Unit the Past Tense. Tense always helps to maintain effective communicative tasks either writing or speaking. This Unit is very well designed which gives a good review of Past tense, its usage and relative activities that I can use while teaching. In my opinion Tenses are very important so in this Unit the Past...  [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 Yangfang Koumeikuang Shenghuoqu? 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. It is one of the major topics in teaching English Tenses are important for establishing sentences.It is a building a block of English.People use it when they want to express themselves in what time frame.Without the tense of a sentence,we can not figure out what time the incident took place.There are twelve different structures in English.Although...  [Read more]