Saying Past Tense

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Empire Nevada 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 covers conditionals and reported speech. Conditionals are sentences containing 'if/when' which refer to past, present, and future possibilities using two clauses, such as \"If I had the money, I would buy a car.\" The different types are the zero conditional, first conditional, second conditional, third conditional, and mixed conditional, which use different grammar structures and are used for expressing different types of possibilities. Reported speech refers to when someone is reporting what...  [Read more]

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  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]