Teaching Present Perfect

  Here now is a teaching idea for the present perfect tense. If you remember back, one of the main usages of the present perfect tense is to talk about past experiences at an indefinite time. Here, will be having students work in small groups. Each small group will receive a prompt. This prompt has various past experiences. However, not conjugated into the question. The challenge for the students will be to take one of these prompts and to create a question based upon it. For example here they see 'win' and 'a competition'. One at a time, the students will take turns forming the question. 'Have you ever won a competition?' The other people listening to the question in the small group, will exchange their past experiences, either 'Yes, I have,' and perhaps tell a bit about the...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net The teaching idea covered in this video is a fun group game that should generate a good deal of student talk time using the Present Perfect tense. The students will be in small groups and each student will have the question sheet with a number of pictures and word prompts. Students take turns forming their question with the aid of the prompts. The groups then give their answers using the Present Perfect. The prompts include: win/a competition, go/scuba-diving, meet/ a famous person The questions would be: Have you ever won a competition?, Have you ever been scuba-diving?, Have you ever met a famous person? Group members would answer, Yes I have...., No I haven't... After a given amount of time each group share their answers with the class. The teacher...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net Being able to use the correct tense when communicating with others is essential. We often use more than one tense when talking to others so it is important that our students have the confidence to be able to know which tense to use in any given situation. For the teaching idea in this video a card game is used to give students the opportunity to ask questions and give answers using more than one tense, in particular reinforcing the Present Perfect Continuous tense. The activity requires the students to work in pairs, taking it in turns to ask a question and give a correct answer. Each card will have a result and a reason, and one student will be required to form the correct question and the other student the correct answer. ITTT offers a variety of TEFL...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net The Present perfect tense is a very useful tense. It is the tense that relates the past to the present. It also tends to be the tense that can often present some difficulties to the English language learner and sometimes the English language teacher. The activity in this video has the students examining two pictures, picture A and picture B. The pictures depict a scene in a house; Picture B is similar to A but with a number of changes. Students are asked to spot the changes and to express the change using the Present Perfect. For example in Picture A, a pile of unironed clothes can be seen next to the ironing board but in picture B the clothes are ironed. So the student would say "He has done the ironing." Another example answer would be, "He has hung up...  [Read more]

  Now here's a teaching idea for the present perfect continuous tense. If you remember we use this tense to talk about actions that had been continuing up until the present moment or very recently. In this activity, you'll be giving a student a card. That card will include the past activity as well as some results. This card says 'You've been driving in the rain on your motorbike. You're all wet and your clothes are too.' The results are 'you're all wet and your clothes are too.' You'll present that information to the rest of the class and, therefore, it's up to the class to guess the action that was occurring up until the certain point in time. What will happen in this activity is, the student at the front of the room will express the present results 'clothes being wet; I'm all...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net The teaching idea covered here is one that would be particularly appropriate for more advanced English language learners, those who can use different tenses accurately. The activity is a board game that focuses on comparing and contrasting the tenses, focusing on the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous. Each student takes a turn at rolling the dice and moving around the board. For example a student could land on a square that says "Something you have been learning for a long time." An appropriate answer for the student could be "I have been learning English for a long time." The next student takes a turn and could land on a square that says "A beautiful place you have visited." This time the student could use the Present Perfect rather...  [Read more]

  Here's an idea for teaching the present perfect continuous tense. However in this activity what the students will be doing, is comparing and contrasting this tense with the present perfect tense. This is something that a teacher will want to do after they've explored both tenses and because both tenses are quite confusing, we'll ask the students to compare and contrast the two, making sure that they can tell the difference. In this activity, the teacher will have cut out each individual card. The teacher will distribute the cards to the students and after a minute has gone by, the teacher will then ask the students to fold their cards over and get into a pair. One student in the pair will then present a certain result and ask the student to form the question. Here, with the...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net In this video we look at a TESOL teaching idea for the Present Perfect Continuous. This tense is the one we use when we want to say what has been happening. The activity in the video is called "Guess what I've been doing?" It is a fun activity that can generate a lot of student talk time. Students each receive a card that has two pieces of information on it, a past activity and a result. Each student has a turn of telling the class the result and the class then has to guess the activity using the Present Perfect Continuous. For example, the past activity on a card is "You have been driving your motorbike in the rain", the result written on the card is "You are all wet. Your clothes are wet". The other students could ask, "Have you been swimming?", "Have...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yangxia Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayinguoleng Menggu 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. There are two tenses in English: past and present. The present tense is used to talk about the present and to talk about the future. There are four present tense forms: Present simple: I work Present continuous: I am working Present perfect: I have worked Present perfect continuous:I have been working There are two tenses in English: past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Shuixigou Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulumuqi Shi — Urumqi? 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 went in depth on the present tense in English. There are a few different types of present tense in English: the simple present, the present perfect, the present progressive, and the present perfect progressive. This unit also describes how each present tense is used and how to negate each of the present tenses. This unit went in depth on...  [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]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tacheng-diqu? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| As it's knowing to all, the English language state 12 tenses in total, which formed by 3 tenses(or times), past, future, and present, and each of these tenses has 4 aspects, simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous In this unit, I recognized how to divide Present Tense into 4...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Sahan Zhen? 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. The present tenses are the focused topic in this unit. The usage and forms of present simple tense, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous have been listed clearly in this unit. Furthermore, the various typical mistakes of the above four tenses have been demonstrated there. It also presents some useful teaching ideas for...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Tacheng-diqu? 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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| The present tenses are one of the most important part of the English grammar This is very challenging for me, a native English speaker I learned different ways to teach tenses to my students I learned different ways to teach tenses to my students I found this unit very helpful in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yulongkashi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hetian Diqu — Hotan? 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 the English language there are three main times: past, present and future. Each time can have four different tenses: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous, making a total of twelve possible tenses. This unit focus on the present tenses. Present tense is used to talk about something that is going on now or that is true now and any time....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Yanqi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Bayinguoleng Menggu 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. There are two tenses in English: past and present. The present tense is used to talk about the present and to talk about the future. There are four present tense forms: Present simple: I work Present continuous: I am working Present perfect: I have worked Present perfect continuous:I have been working The simple present is a verb tense with two...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Guoying Muchang? Are you interested in teaching English in Hetian Diqu — Hotan? 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 in English there are four present tenses: simple present, present continious, present perfect, present perfect continious. These four tenses have different kind of uses and we looked at the form and usages of each tense in this unit. The purpose is to understand the differencies between these tenses and minimize the...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Jintang Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhoushan 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 more about future tenses, Future Simple, Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future perfect Continuous, Present Simple and Presente simple cotinuous with future meaning, how they are divided and their correct places. In this unit I learned more about future tenses, Future Simple, Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future perfect Continuous,...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bingtuan Yiersan 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. The section explain the way from simple to complex sentence is constructed when speaking in present. It elaborate the information of how simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous are being used. After the section, what I notice is the key words (which was taught in the section) that would be the helpful to distinguish the difference in them. E.g....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Bingtuan Nongjiushiyiliuwu 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 English tenses related to time (past, present, future), each containing four aspects of simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous. This unit focused on the present tense and it's aspects. This unit gave clear meanings and definitions to each aspect of the present tense, and how these aspects are used by native speakers....  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Wulanwusu Zhen? 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. This unit covers the present tenses, which includes the present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and the present perfect continuous. The present simple conveys very basic information about present conditions. It includes facts like "The moon is round" and habits "I go bowling every Thursday." The present continuous conveys actions that are in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Liuheng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Zhoushan 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 more about future tenses, Future Simple, Future Continuous, Future Perfect, Future perfect Continuous, Present Simple and Presente simple cotinuous with future meaning, how they are divided and their correct places, I learned different teaching ideas so I can use it in class. In this unit I learned more about future tenses, Future Simple,...  [Read more]