Tense versus Aspect in TEFL
What’s the difference between a tense and an aspect in English, and what are the different tenses and aspects?
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What’s the difference between a tense and an aspect in English, and what are the different tenses and aspects?
This is a one hour lesson suitable for intermediate level learners. It uses a listening text to set the context for eliciting the target language.
Use this activity at elementary level upwards, either as a warmer or as a practice activity for forming yes/no questions, reported questions or narrative tenses.
Here’s an intermediate level Bond-based lesson plan using scenes from Casino Royale, focusing on ‘so that…’ and ‘infinitives of purpose’.
A list of some of the more common irregular verbs in English.
Should we be teaching grammar implicitly, in context and communicatively, or explicitly, with rules-based grammar lessons? Or is a combination of the two the most effective way?
A
Articles
B
Be Used To
C
Causative Have
Comparatives / Superlatives
D
Demonstrative pronoun or determiner?
F
Few and Little
First Conditional
Future Continuous
Future Perfect
G
Get Used To
H
Have and Have Got
I
Indirect Questions
Intensive Pronouns
L
Lend and Borrow
N
Nouns - concrete, abstract, proper and common
P
Passive
Past Continuous
Past Perfect
Past Simple
Present Continuous
Present Perfect Continuous
Present Perfect Simple
Present Simple
Q
Questions
R
Reflexive Pronouns
Reported Questions
Reported Speech
Reporting Verbs
S
Say and Tell
Second Conditional
Small and Little
T
Tag Questions
Third Conditional
Too and Enough
U
Used to
W
Will and Going to
Wish
Z
Zero Conditional