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Understanding all About Verb Tenses

VERB TENSES

 For one reason or another, verb tenses can be one of the most confusing obstacles for many of our students to overcome when learning the English language. As a teacher who has spent his entire career teaching B2 to C2 level English, I find that almost every student who comes into my classroom possesses some degree of a problem relating to verb tenses.

As verb tenses are one of the grammar structures first introduced to students in the most basic of levels, then it becomes obvious that these problems are often endemic, perpetually entrenched as a systemic problem within many teachers own understanding of the English language. Personally, I call these problems hereditary, for the fact that each generation of English teacher faithfully passes the problems down to their students, a percentage of whom will one day become the next generation of English teachers and continue the process.

But are verb tenses really that difficult to understand, or, for one reason or another, are they taught in a way that makes them hard for students to grasp? Verbs, which really are quite simple, come in three tenses: past, present, and future. The past is used to describe things that have already happened (e.g., earlier in the morning, yesterday, last week, three months ago, four years ago). The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that are continuous and the future tense describes things that have yet to happen (e.g., later, tomorrow, next week, next year, ten years from now).

Personally, I don't believe that verb tenses should be that difficult to understand, teach, or learn, and if approached from the right angle, then hereditary problems such as this should slowly, bit by bit, become a thing of the past. I hope that the following slides will help you to teach, and your students to learn verb tenses.

Good luck.

David White
Managing Director English For You Language Institute Trujillo Peru.
Headmaster American School (Bilingual ib school) Trujillo Peru
International conference presenter
International academic consultant.
dwenglishforyou@outlook.com



















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