Verb Patterns

  As mentioned earlier, our example sentence has used a regular verb 'to play'. With the regular verbs we simply add '-ed'. This spelling pattern changes for words that end with a consonant and a Y: 'cry' goes to 'cried', 'try' to 'tried'. Another spelling pattern we have to be aware of is our consonant plus vowel plus consonant. In these instances, we double the consonant used: 'shop' needs the double P; 'ship' needs the double P. With these spelling patterns, and most spelling patterns in general for the English language, there are always exceptions to the rules. So we have to be aware of those exceptions. We also have to impart those exceptions on to our students. We can do so through various exercises and various activities to end our class. To form the negative sentence here,...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs United Kingdom Stockport 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: Unit 6 covered the four different tense and three forms used to discuss the past. The four tenses are past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. The three forms each of these tenses can take are the affirmative, the negative and the question form. This unit explained that in our studies of the three times and their corresponding tenses we will begin to notice patterns in the structures of how they are formed. For example, the continuous tenses will always use...  [Read more]

  http://www.teflonline.net This ITTT video is the second part of a lesson looking at the structure of the Present Perfect tense. It reviews an example of the structure with a regular verb -- played. I/you/we/they have played. She/He/It has played. The video then examines some of the spelling patterns that are used with irregular verbs. For example, verbs ending with a consonant + y. cry changes to cried, try changes to tried. Another spelling pattern with irregular verbs ending with a consonant + a vowel + a consonant Shop changes to shopped, ship changes to shipped. When teaching this particular point, as with other grammar points, it is important to explain to students that there are exceptions to most rules in the English language. Where specific patterns exist we...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hachioji 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: A.V. - U.S.A. said: This unit specifically talked about present tenses in the English language. This includes: present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous. It was a complex topic and, as mentioned in the unit, probably one of the most difficult to teach and learn. This is true for a number of reasons. There are numerous rules that must be followed when forming and using verbs, and then there are also no rules and no patterns in other areas of this topic. For example, the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Norzagaray Bulacan 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: Lesson 13 talks about pronunciation and phonology. In this lesson i learn about the different variations and patterns of the English language. I learn about Intonation which is the variation in volume and pitch within a sentence. Using the rise/fall pattern of English is very normal but when the teacher uses the fall/rise intonation pattern, it indicates that the speaker wants his/her audiencce to respond in some way. Lastly, I learn about the teaching techniques for pronunciation which are:...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Spain Hospitalet De Llobregat 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 is focused on teaching theories, methods and techniques. Starting with an overview of the most important teaching techniques, the unit then focuses on the Engage, Study, Activate (ESA) methodology, which is defined more in detail. The concept of “elicitation” is explained and different elicitation techniques are described. Each component of an ESA lesson is detailed and also different ESA lesson patterns, such as the straight arrow or the boomerang pattern, are...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Algeria Sidi-bel-Abbs 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 chapter was interesting, because I had never realized before that the past and present tense forms of verbs are so similar. Both can be divided into simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous, and the usages in both cases are very similar as well. It was very useful to know also that past, present, and future tenses all are formed essentially the same way, except for the first word in the construction, which depends on the tense. For example, the continuous form is...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs China Jiujiang 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: The content of this unit is about teaching pronunciation and phonology. It covers information about the use of intonation and stress to emphasis speech, phonemic symbols and articulation (the speech organs). I have learned about intonation patterns and about what they mean. For example, the normal pattern of intonation in a statement is the rise/fall intonation and the fall/rise intonation indicates surprise and that the speaker wants a response. Stress is used to emphasize words and I have learned...  [Read more]

  It also helps us form our tenses. Many of the tenses will use these auxiliary verbs; particularly we have our continuous tense and our perfect tense. There are additional tenses that use auxiliary verbs. We'll get into that when we talk about our individual tenses. Another important aspect of our verbs is that they generally tell us what tense the sentence has been formed in. Take for instance the verb "to live." We could use it as live, lives, living or lived. "I live" or "she lives in Bangkok," meaning the present. "I am living in Bangkok," still the present or "I lived in Bangkok," meaning the past. Another difference with our verbs has to do with whether or not the verb is regular or irregular. With the regular verbs, in order to conjugate the verb into the past, we simply...  [Read more]

  Here we have a set of five words, which all share one sound: the ?oh? sound, as in ?go?, ?show?, ?dough?, ?note? and ?boat?. They?re five different spelling patterns to tell our students so they can identify when to make the ?oh? sound. We can have a simple letter ?o?, ?ow?, ?ough?, ?o? with the magic ?e? which turns our vowel into what we knew as long sounds and the ?oa? as in ?boat?. Now, for a non-native learner, perhaps they can handle something like this. They remember that these spelling combinations help to produce the ?oh? sound and they can go about their business looking at the words and memorizing this knowing that these spelling patterns will produce the sound ?oh?. Now that?s okay until we get to a situation where we can also have words like ?to?, ?cow? and also...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification Germany Cottbus 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: Unit 6 relates to Unit 4 in the sense that both refer to tenses with similar patterns for sentence construction. However, the simple past verb forms in affirmative sentences have an additional challenge for students: irregular verbs. We, teachers, must be careful to help and support students patiently with this issue because it is one that requires most attention from learners. The past forms, especially the simple past and the past continuous, are also very common to teach at the...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Rye Arizona 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: Unit 2 was all about the different parts of speech, such as: nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, gerunds, articles, pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Although, as a native speaker I feel that I follow the rules of English, I did not necessarily know the finer details of the language. Before the lesson I did not know the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb, even though I was using them correctly in my speech. I also did not know that you use the term many when using a counting...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Ruse Bulgaria 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: The past and the present tenses share similar patterns of structure and usage. Both the present and past continuous forms use the verb to be, eg. in the present as 'I am' hearing this, in the past as 'I was hearing this' Both the present perfect and the past perfect use the verb 'to have' eg. in the present perfect, i have been skating, in the past perfect I had been skating. The same 'to have' verb is shared in the perfect continuous forms also. When we understand the structural...  [Read more]

  Moving further down our list of parts of speech, we have our adjectives. Adjectives modify or describe nouns. Basically, they give more information about the noun. Here, we've used a noun such as chair. It could be any old chair. It's only the noun. If we want to describe the noun, we need to use an adjective before it. So, I could say "I have an old black leather chair". Here, we have to be concerned about the adjective order. In this instance, I started with age, as age typically goes before color and then I use the color to go before the material. This is a certain pattern. Depending on the adjectives you want to use, you always have to use certain patterns to which you'll need to be aware of when teaching your class. Another way to describe a noun is by showing possession. We...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Jobs Hitachi Japan 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: Lesson planning unlike conjugation of verbs is not written in stone like verb tenses, conjugation, or grammar. Although a necessary, integral part of learning or teaching it is kind of like a living, breathing, creature; it can and should be flexible. There are however certain basic guidelines. It must be kept simple and contain learner objectives and teacher aims. In all cases it must contain some sequence of the engage, study, and activate format. Otherwise the learners will not become fluent.The...  [Read more]

  We'll begin our examination of all the tenses by first looking at the present tense. There are four present tenses and we'll begin with the present simple tense. It's the most common tense in the English language as it talks about things in general, general facts, routines, habits. Those are usages that we'll look at in a little while but first let's focus on the form of the tense. Here, we've got our subjects 'I', 'you', 'we', 'they' and the base form of the verb followed by the rest of our sentence. Here for the 'he', 'she' and 'it' subjects, we have to conjugate our verb and in this case we've added an '-es' for 'teaches' followed by the rest of our sentence. With subjects 'I', 'you', 'we' and 'they' the pattern stays the same throughout we use the base form of the verb....  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Woodlawn Park Oklahoma 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: Unit 6 covered the four past verb tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect, and Past Perfect Continuous. The Past Simple is used for an action that was completed in the past. The Past Continuous is used for an action that began in the past and possibly continued after a second past event. The Past Perfect is used for a past action that was completed before a second past action. The Past Perfect Continuous is used for a past continuous action that was occurring when a second past...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about Advanced TESOL Courses 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: I.M. - Phillippines said: Phonetics PhonologyPhonology is the study of the sound patterns that occur within languages. Phonology is concerned with anatomy and physiology – the organs of speech and how we learn to use them. The root of phonology ‘phone’ originates from the greek word phoneme which means sound. Phonology is also connected to socio-linguistics and this makes us think of how accent, intonation, rhythm and pronunciation affect social attitudes. Man is unique among primates in that he has...  [Read more]

Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Certification India Yamuna Nagar 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: There are a lot of ways to express the future tense in English, but most commonly used are the 'going to' future tense and the present continuous. Students should be able to notice patterns with the forms of the future tense, especially assuming the student has prior knowledge of the other tenses (present and past tenses are usually taught before the future). The 'pure' forms (future simple, future continuous, future perfect and future perfect continuous) all have 'will' + verb or...  [Read more]

  Moving down our list of parts of speech, we have our verbs. The first big difference between verbs that we need to look at is whether it's an action verb or a state verb. Our action verbs, as the name suggests, mean that we typically can see these things in action. We can see people working and we certainly see people going to various places. Now, we have our state verbs. These are basically indicating a state of being. Two examples would be "seem" and "have" or "own". We have a sentence such as "He seems angry." and "I own my house." You can't actually see the action happening, even though those words are used as verbs. A very big differentiation between the two here as well is, state verbs typically don't take the progressive or continuous form. That form is the verb "+ing". As...  [Read more]