Verb + Verb Pattern

  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]

  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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Lake Mills, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Lake Mills, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 6 covered the past tenses. I actually found these to be more difficult then the present tenses. We learned that there is a bit of a pattern with the verb tenses,for example : if the verb "to be"...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Washington? Are you interested in teaching English in Grand Coulee, Washington? Check out our opportunities in Grand Coulee, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Past tenses are similar to present tenses, except it relates to things that happened before. Past simple is an -ed or -d added to the base form. It can be very tricky for learners...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in South Carolina? Are you interested in teaching English in Belton, South Carolina? Check out our opportunities in Belton, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Pronunciation and stress are important areas of English to practice, and while the exact pronunciation of any word or phrase is highly contextual, there are overall patterns that students...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Hampshire? Are you interested in teaching English in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire? Check out our opportunities in Fitzwilliam, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! It was very helpful to see the parallels between the present and past tenses, which match up identically with each other. For my teaching in Lao, it will be difficult to help...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Texas? Are you interested in teaching English in La Grange, Texas? Check out our opportunities in La Grange, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Just like the present tenses, there are four aspects of the past tense: simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous. The rules for forming each tense aspect follow a similar pattern as the...  [Read more]

  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 need to introduce them to our...  [Read more]

  The next item that we're going to consider is the use of resource books. There are many different types of resource books available and within those books there tends to be a general pattern and typically the resource book pack will come in a three book series and typically that three book series will be in the form of the student book, a workbook and a teacher's resource book. So for example here are those three books for this particular series called ?Total English? and in the student book the type of information that we can gain from here is the actual background to the teaching points themselves plus some additional information in terms of short worksheets and so on and so forth and tape transcripts at the end for listening activities, which these days often come on a CD...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Iowa? Are you interested in teaching English in Westfield, Iowa? Check out our opportunities in Westfield, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 16 focuses on conditional and reported speech and was another example of the complexity of English, and of teaching English. Zero, first, second, third and mixed conditionals have a pattern, but...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Missouri? Are you interested in teaching English in Grandview, Missouri? Check out our opportunities in Grandview, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this unit we studied about how to tech phonics and pronunciation to students. Teaching correct pronunciation of english is very important. We also learnt about teaching phonics, it means...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in North Carolina? Are you interested in teaching English in Granite Quarry, North Carolina? Check out our opportunities in Granite Quarry, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 4 discusses the present tenses, they are divided into four tenses: present simple, present continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous. Present...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Missouri? Are you interested in teaching English in Cassville, Missouri? Check out our opportunities in Cassville, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! In this unit I learned the proper form or tenses according to their usage.The correct usage of past simple regular verbs is by adding 'ed' to the base form of the verb like 'work' to...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New Jersey? Are you interested in teaching English in Cape May, New Jersey? Check out our opportunities in Cape May, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 18 teaches thoroughly Modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice. As far as modals are concerned we could review about these auxiliary verbs with uses and tenses and more important for us,...  [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]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New York? Are you interested in teaching English in Russell, New York? Check out our opportunities in Russell, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! When learning about past tenses after the lesson about present tenses, similar patterns emerge in relation to grammatical structure. For example, using the conjugated form of the verb "To be"...  [Read more]

Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in New York? Are you interested in teaching English in Henrietta, New York? Check out our opportunities in Henrietta, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Unit 6: Past Tenses follows a similar pattern that the present tenses do. The past simple used the verb plus the past tense -ed ending for regular verbs, but there are many irregulars that...  [Read more]

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  For statements in the negative form, what we have to do is add the auxiliary verb 'to do'. For subjects 'I', 'you', 'we' and 'they', we simply leave 'do' as 'do', use the word 'not', and keep the base form of the verb now for the negative statements. However, for 'he', 'she' and 'it', we have to conjugate our auxiliary verb into 'does'. We still use 'not' and we still keep the base form of the verb. The pattern performing questions is very very similar to the pattern performing negative statements. However, what we've done is invert our subject and our auxiliary verb so that the questions read the auxiliary verb first. Of course, again, we use 'do' for 'I', 'you', 'we' and 'they' and use 'does' for 'he', 'she' and 'it'. In both cases, we've left our verb form as the base form of...  [Read more]

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Do you want to be TEFL or TESOL-certified in Florida? Are you interested in teaching English in SarasotaCounty seat, Florida? Check out our opportunities in SarasotaCounty seat, Become certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language and start teaching English in your community or abroad! Teflonline.net offers a wide variety of Online TESOL Courses and a great number of opportunities for English Teachers and for Teachers of English as a Second Language. Here Below you can check out the feedback (for one of our units) of one of the 16.000 students that last year took an online course with ITTT! Learning past tense after learning the present tense and then starting to learn the rules for the different types was very helpful in understanding this unit. Naturally, I...  [Read more]

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