And the one I asked today about 'I wish' statements...
We shall see if I asked it correctly or if it gets voted off for being useless ; )
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63914/difference-between-he-wishes-it-didnt-and-he-wishes-it-wouldnt/63915#63915
Showing posts with label English Tenses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English Tenses. Show all posts
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Lions and Tigers and Tenses....oh my!
English tenses!
I remember when I was taking my English grammar course during my TESL studies I loved the English tenses section! My professor had an excellent sheet on them all; however, I left that sheet in Canada when I came to Germany >.<. So when I went back for holidays in July I searched through all my boxes, but to no avail, it seems to have jumped ship! I will have to email her and ask if she can forward it me....maybe....
Until then though I found a decent replacement on Englishstackexchange, the diagram in particular makes me happy :).
This is exactly what I needed as I am now teaching an English 3B business course and for some reason I need to teach them the Future present continuous and Future present simple, which they do not like.
"Teacher, why can't we just use 'will'? Why do I need "have" and "been" and "-ing verbs!?"
"Teacher, can't I just say I worked here for 20 years next week?"
Anyways, I really just wanted to post something since it's been sooo long! That's it for now!
Edit: So I got excited too fast, there are a couple of tenses missing from this answer for example the future "going to", but that's all right I will just have to add that in!
I remember when I was taking my English grammar course during my TESL studies I loved the English tenses section! My professor had an excellent sheet on them all; however, I left that sheet in Canada when I came to Germany >.<. So when I went back for holidays in July I searched through all my boxes, but to no avail, it seems to have jumped ship! I will have to email her and ask if she can forward it me....maybe....
Until then though I found a decent replacement on Englishstackexchange, the diagram in particular makes me happy :).
This is exactly what I needed as I am now teaching an English 3B business course and for some reason I need to teach them the Future present continuous and Future present simple, which they do not like.
"Teacher, why can't we just use 'will'? Why do I need "have" and "been" and "-ing verbs!?"
"Teacher, can't I just say I worked here for 20 years next week?"
Anyways, I really just wanted to post something since it's been sooo long! That's it for now!
Edit: So I got excited too fast, there are a couple of tenses missing from this answer for example the future "going to", but that's all right I will just have to add that in!
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