Teaching The Past Simple

  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]

  http://www.teflonline.net For the teaching idea in this ESOL video students are given a set of pictures that feature events in a person's day. In pairs the students will need to put the pictures in an order of their choosing and then create a story about the person's day using the past simple tense. For example: She woke up and had a cup of coffee. She went to be at 9 o'clock. If you would like to become an ESOL teacher and travel the world experiencing new cultures while enabling people to improve their opportunities in life, then you should take a TESOL course. Taking such a course will give you the knowledge and skills needed to make you an effective teacher of English. Visit our site by following the link above for more information on the courses available to you....  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net The teaching idea covered here is one that would be appropriate for adult English language learners. It involves students writing a CV including personal data such as where they were born, their education history and their work experience. This activity could be a precursor to a job interview activity where students interview each other for different jobs using information from their CVs. By taking one of ITTT's TESOL Courses you will learn useful teaching ideas such as the one covered in this video. There are number of options available to study from short 60-hour introductory courses to longer 120-hour TESOL Courses. It is also possible to take ITTT's TESOL Courses in-class at any one of our training centres around the world. Please visit the link...  [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.teflonline.net In this video for a teaching English second language teaching idea the students are given a sheet of paper with a series of pictures and each picture has a prompt with complicated verb structure as well as irregular verbs. The students will have to look at the prompts and order the pictures so as to make a story in the past simple tense. For higher level students you could remove the prompts and leave it up to them to create their own story. Teaching English as a second language is an increasingly popular career move. Not only do get the opportunity to help a variety of people around the world achieve their language learning goals but you also get to experience what it is like to live in another culture, often quite different to your own, which is always...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net In this video we look at the last of three teaching ideas for the past simple. This is a two part exercise that involves students initially guessing the answer to a given question before taking a poll on what the real answers is. This is idea is one of many that can be learned on one of ITTT's online TEFL courses. There are number of options available to study from short 60-hour introductory courses to longer 120-hour TEFL courses. It is also possible to take ITTT's TEFL courses in-class at one of many locations around the world. Please visit the link above for more information about the courses ITTT provides to help you become an English teacher. -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Are you ready to Teach English Abroad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pcXD_GNR04...  [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. 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]

  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]

  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]

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 Jiucun 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 content of this unit showed the 4 English past tenses and their proper usage. They are past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. In a nutshell, we learn the past simple is used to represent an action that occured in a definite time in the past, also to represent a forward sequence of actions in the past. After that, we see the past...  [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 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 Liancheng 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. There are 4 past tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous. Past simple states an action that has happened in the past and is finished with an –ed ending. And a definite time. I worked last night. Past continuous states an action that happened in the past with the verb “to be” (was were) plus the verb...  [Read more]

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]

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 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 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 Yanshan 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. There are four past tenses in English. They are used to talk about things that started and ended in the past or things that started in the past and continue to the present. The past simple tense expresses an action that happened in the past, and the time of the action is usually clearly specified as referring to the past. The past continuous tense expresses an...  [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]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Mabai 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. In this unit we learn about the past tenses, their structure and usage. They are similar to the present tenses, except, of course, they are in the past. The four past tenses are Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous. We are also provided with a list of irregular verbs, both for the simple past form and past...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Changhua 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. Unit 6. Past Tenses, I have learnt evaluating this four Tenses which are Past simple tense expressed completed actions in the past. the second is Past Continuous tense indicates that a certain action was in progress at a particular time in past. Third, Past perfect tense first past action and the fourth, Past perfect tense which first continuous past action. We...  [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 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 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]

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 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 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]