Videos to Teach the Past Simple Tense
Recently I have created a set of videos to teach the past simple tense in English. There is a video that helps students learn to form the past tense in the following situations:
3 Speaking Activities to Practice the Past Simple Tense
Textbooks often don´t offer enough speaking practice. If the book is good it gives you two speaking activities per unit and nothing more. Then the teacher has to search high and low to find some more. To make the search shorter, I share three speaking activities you can use to practise the past simple tense….
Past Simple for Regular Verbs – Videos and Speaking Activities to Teach this Grammar Effectively
Do your students struggle with the past simple tense? Do you want to make your teaching more effective and fun?
Past simple tense – the form
Some students find it difficult to learn all the forms of the past simple tense. The following worksheets will help them learn this grammar easily.
Students’ Autonomy – Spelling Rules
Autonomous students are intrinsically motivated, willing to take responsibility for their own learning and aware of their preferred learning strategies.
Past tense of regular verbs
It has been known that people remember grammar rules best if they come up with their own explanation. Therefore, the teachers should try to design their teaching activities in such a way that they will help students create their own rules.
Past continuous tense – usage
In our previous post, we tried to explain how to form the past continuous tense in English. In this post, we will try to show you when you should use the past continuous tense.
Teach Past Simple Tense With Michael Rosen Rap
I have already shared many materials to teach the past simple tense here. You can find activities to teach irregular verbs, a great post on teaching questions in the past simple tense and a post on teaching negative in the past simple tense. However, this post is different. Here, I would like to share a…
Questions in the Past Tense
I remember the times in my teaching career when I dreaded teaching questions. I especially hated the questions in the past simple tense. After my explanation, students got confused and they often failed to produce even the most basic questions. Fortunately, the situation has changed. Nowadays, I look forward to teaching this grammar. I have…
Past simple tense
Past simple is one of the most important English tenses. Scott Thornbury once wrote that he would sacrifice all the perfect tenses and other grammar if he could teach past simple properly. I agree with him, because if the students could you this tense, then I would probably forgive them everything. To teach all the…
Present perfect vs Past simple tense
Many students find the difference between present perfect tense and past simple very confusing. To help them I have created the following infographic.