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I really liked the example given in this text, about John cooking. I'd like to come up with one example sentence like that to use for all tenses in the past, present, and future. I know in my own language studies, having one consistent example like that really helps to logically distinguish between all of the forms. Thank you for that!
I've noticed that in Japan, students commonly mix the past simple and past continuous structures together. "I was played soccer," for example. Students also struggle with forming questions about the past tense. "Where came from?" Sometimes students shy away from the "perfect" tenses, asking "Did you go there before?" instead of "Have you been there before?" I hope that, especially in my adult conversation classes, I can use some of the mentioned activities in this unit to make students more comfortable with the past tenses.
I've played the "What were you doing at 7PM last night?" detective game with junior high school students before, and that really seemed to work well. I've also used discussions of past holidays (e.g. summer vacation) to teach the simple past tense. In the future, I'd like to try a CV activity with some of my students.
I wish the text provided some examples of activities for teaching the past perfect continuous. I'd like to find a good text with exercises for students to practice the different past tenses.
