Thank You for including me. I would like to share my discovery on teaching tenses to ESL pupils who have very little exposure to English. After many methodological styles and attempts, I finally managed to make my elementary level students understand and use the concept of Simple Past Tanse, Simple Present Tense, Present Continuous Tense and Past Continuous Tense effectively.

 

usually/always/

sometimes/seldom/

often etc.

now /

at this moment etc.

yesterday / last night / just now /  etc. at that moment / then etc.     Simple Present Present Progressive Simple Past Past Progressive   He / She / It ..........s .....  is      .......ing

 

.........ed (or as memorised)

....... was

........ing

              They / We ..........(no 's') ...... are     .....ing

........ed

(or as memorised)

....... were 

........ing 

 

 

After going through the table and its contents, I gave them some pictures and told them to talk about the incidents and happenings and to my surprise, about 70% of the pupils fared well. Hope this helps. If there are any other suggestions, please forward. I would be gald to receive some comments on how to improve this further. Thank you

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