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]

  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've learned from this unit that there are four things that students need to do with learning a new language: be exposed to it, understand the meaning, understand how it is constructed and be able to practice and produce it. I've learned that grammar, vocabulary, and functions are all intertwined with teaching a new language in a balanced and manageable way. I've learned that there are many teaching styles but having...  [Read more]

  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 went over what you should focus on when you are planning a lesson. It really made a point to emphasize that you should always remain flexible. Always be open to change because sometimes activities don't go as planned or they might go quicker or slower than planned. Timing was another thing that was stressed in this lesson. You should try to estimate the time of each activity. I think it would be valuable to...  [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]

  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 section mostly provides examples of different paperwork exercises that can be used to engage students. Items like the crosswords and word searches are classic examples of brain teasers which have been used to improve memory functions and analytical prowess in people of all ages. The other focal point of this section lies in the actual textbooks of a course, and deciding whether or not teaching through them, or...  [Read more]

  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 videos in this unit provided a stark contrast between good and bad teaching techniques and attitudes. It was obvious in the first video that the teacher was not using good techniques and the students had a difficult time engaging and learning, overall it was a ineffective lesson. The second lesson used more techniques of the ESA method and the teacher had a much better presentation and attitude which made for a...  [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]

  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 was a great review of the past tense system and its many applications in modern speech. After reading through this chapter, I began to understand concepts like all continuous forms feature some form of verb 'to be" plus the 'ing" form of verb. If the verb "to be" is in the present, it will be the present continuous. If the verb 'to be' is in the past....which means it will be the past continuous. As a native...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Hede Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yancheng 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. Tense system is one of the areas of the English language that can create major problems for both students and teachers. We can state there are twelve tenses, in that there are three different times in English: present, past and future; each of these times also has four aspects: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. It is very important that the teacher...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChengchuAn Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in E'erduosi Shi — Ordos? 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 summative task, I have decided to write an article about time tenses and give some perspective to a new learner on how to form the time structures. I will start this with the basic time tenses we have, which are past, present and future. These three main categories will be expanding in twelve various subcategories which will be explained in...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in XiaoshAjiAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoyang 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 feel very happy to have passed 20 tests in this course, so that I can sit here and write down my feelings about what I have received. The final topic that I chose to write that essay is grammar. 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:...  [Read more]

  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. Unit Four Reflection, for this section of Present Tenses. This section talks about present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous within the system. A language argument talks about the past and present as far as tense. As an English Foreign Language teacher is better to look at it differently. It is present, past and future and with the four aspects; simple, continuous, perfect and...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xinghua Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luoyang 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 four_ present tenses Linguistically, there are two main tenses. They are the present tenses and the past tenses. For the purposes of TEFL studies, three tenses are considered. They are the past tenses, presnt tenses and the future tenses with each having four different aspects. Unit four tends to look at the present tenses in details. It covers the four...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Pingle Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Luoyang 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 continues to define the difficulties of English grammar with a focus on present tenses. The English language is comprised of 12 tenses broken into three main sections (past,present, and future) Unit 4 explores the 4 tenses of the present. The four tenses discussed are Present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and finally present perfect...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Daihai Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Wulanchabu Shi — Ulanqab? 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. Problems for English learners in Russia People in Russia are known to commonly learn English in schools and universities; however, English is rarely spoken outside of the classroom. Although many Russians have been learning English for years, most cannot speak it properly. This is because most of the learning time is spent learning the theoretical...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in YushAnpu Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Shaoyang 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. Tenses- Usually it creates tense for many ESL students during communication. It defines and differentiates the situation by time. Is the time important in communication? Yes, it is. The wrong usage of tenses changes the exact meaning of the situation, what the speaker is trying to convey. So focusing tenses in grammar is more essential than others. Still, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in ChijiAng Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzhou 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 have learnt from this unit that there are so many different tenses to express the future time. The future simple, the future continuous, the future perfect, the future perfect continuous and 'Be going to' are one of those future tenses. Besides there are two actually called present tenses but can be also used in the meaning of future. They are ' Present simple'...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ji'an Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Ji'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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| In this unit I have understand that the tense "going to" future looks very similar to the present continuous, especially when the present continuous form uses the verb "to go" I've learned that the difference is that the "be going to" structure is always followed by a verb This unit describes...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ji'an Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Ji'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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| what I've learned in these subject are the kinds of future tenses and there uses Future tense is slightly more confusing than past or present tense Unit 8 talks about the Future Tenses in English and their complexity I was unaware of unthoughtful of the complexities of future tenses, nor was...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ji'an Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Ji'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. Check out which city/town you may be more interested in and start your journey| The future tenses are used to explain events that have yet to happen Future tense is regarded to be a difficult phenomenon in English language grammar The future tenses are one of tge mist important and complex areas of the English language From this Unit 'The future Tenses", I've learnt the...  [Read more]

  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 mostly about the tenses: present simple, present continuous, present perfect, present perfect continuous. I think this unit was the hardest unit for me because, I actually have a hard time using the tenses myself. Especially, present perfect and present perfect continuous. However, it is a little bit more clear to me of the difference between each tenses.I think it would have been better if there were more...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Baidishi Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Hengyang 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 ITTT 120-hour on-line TEFL course is intended to provide the novice ESL teacher with the fundamentals for building an ESL teaching career. The course is divided into a total of twenty individual units. Half the units are concerned with the process of teaching English to non-English speakers. The other half of the syllabus is concerned with class content –...  [Read more]

  In this video diary entry, Chantelle discusses unit 4 of her TEFL course. This unit covers the present tenses; present simple, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous. The structures, usages and possible teaching ideas for each tense are outlined in the unit as well as common errors made by learners. The tenses are an aspect of the language that many native speakers of English struggle with as they are not explicitly taught in schools and, as Chantelle mentions, this was one of the more difficult units she has studied so far in the course. 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...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Ganzhou Shi? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzhou 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| 5 An interesting unit, I learnt about the future simple tense, the future continuous tense, the future perfect continuous tense, the future perfect tense, a review on the present simple and the present continuous tense I will have been studying future continuous a lot by this time next...  [Read more]

  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, I have learnt about the present tense. EFL teachers believe there twelve tense in all, which is quite different from Asian and Slavic languages on this aspect.There are three times in English: the past, the present, the future. Each of these times has four aspects: simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous, so twelve in all. This unit focuses on four present tenses: the present simple, the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in HubiAn (Ganzhou Jingji Jishu KAifAqu) Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzhou 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 was full of the seven most common future tenses: simple future, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, 'going to' future, present simple, and present continuous. I had not really thought of present simple and present continuous as being future tenses so that was helpful to see along with the example...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Litian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ji'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. In this unit I learnt about future tense. Here I learnt about the form i.e., affirmative, negative and question; usages; typical student error/mistakes and teaching ideas of Future Simple, Future Perfect, Future Continuous, Future Perfect Continuous, 'going to' future, Present Simple, Present Continuous. In this unit, I learnt how present simple and present continuous...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Gongdian Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Pingdingshan 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. Structures of past tenses are not too different than present tenses. All continuous forms feature some form of the verb. If the verb ''to be'' is in the present, it will be present continuous. If the verb ''to be'' is in the past, it will be the past continuous. All perfect continuous forms feature some form of the verb ''to have''plus ''been'', plus the...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in GAoxing Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Ganzhou 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 went over the different future tenses. The seven that it went over are, future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, be going + infinitive, present simple, and present continuous. It went over how and when to use these and the different teaching methods that I can use for each of them. This unit went over the different...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified and teach in Xiaji Zhen? Are you interested in teaching English in Yangzhou 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 the seven most common tenses. These would include future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, be going plus infinitive, present simple, and present continuous. I learned the common mistakes made by learners. This unit was also helpful in providing teaching ideas to practice usage of the tenses. In this unit I...  [Read more]