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?
English Grammar
Improve your English grammar knowledge and confidence.
Short Grammar Course for English Teachers
In this video course you’ll learn everything you need to know to be completely confident about grammar as an English teacher.
“Used to” lesson plan
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.
Activity to practise questions and narrative tenses
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.
TEFL lesson plan: teaching infinitives of purpose using a James Bond film
Here’s an intermediate level Bond-based lesson plan using scenes from Casino Royale, focusing on ‘so that…’ and ‘infinitives of purpose’.
List of irregular verbs
A list of some of the more common irregular verbs in English.
Grammar Teaching: Implicit or Explicit?
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?
Grammar rules & explanations
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
