Past Simple Of Say

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Allenport Pennsylvania and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: This unit focused on the future tenses in the English language. There are 7 common future tenses which include the future simple, future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, be-going + infinitive, present simple and present continuous. As with the units on The Present Tense and The Past Tense, this unit required me to think about language and my word choice. I have been speaking English for over 50 years so I say that it comes \"naturally\" to me but it is really years of...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Piraeus Greece and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: I never realized that the English language has so many tenses. I have been studying Russian for the past couple years and I never fully appreciated their simple verb tenses. Of course the rest of the grammar can be quite complicated but English grammar can be as well. As a native speaker we did not focus so much the specifities of each verb tense - it's always just ccome natural. While going through some of the examples and comparing it to how I would talk myself, even I am very confused what...  [Read more]

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