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New_bee Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

It's among present perfect, simple past, and past perfect tense

Hi ! I'm an English teacher in Indonesia. I always have difficulties in explaining my student about those tenses. Most of the students are confused on how to differentiate and decide when they have to use one of the tenses correctly. I usually use the time line to explain the tenses, but since our native language doesn't use any tenses so it's very hard for the students to "digest" the tenses.
I hope someone whose experiences in teaching EFL could share his/her strategy. Thank you for your kindness....
  

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html (you can find links to the other tenses you're interested in on that page) Don't be discouraged though. English tenses are probably the most difficult point of English grammar because there are so freakin' many of them. Even native speakers will not always agree on which tense to use in a given situation (especially if those speakers come from, say, the US and Britain).

— Ivanhr

  • html (you can find links to the other tenses you're interested in on that page) Don't be discouraged though.
  • English tenses are probably the most difficult point of English grammar because there are so freakin' many of them.
  • Even native speakers will not always agree on which tense to use in a given situation (especially if those speakers come from, say, the US and Britain).
  • It will take a lot of effort on both your part and your students' part to master English tenses, but, provided you put in a lot of work, you'll eventually get there.
  • btw, welcome to English forums!
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English tenses are too broad a subject to be dealt with in detail here but here's something to get you started http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html (you can find links to the other tenses you're interested in
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new_beeHi ! I'm an English teacher in Indonesia. I always have difficulties in explaining my student about those tenses. Most of the students are confused on how to differentiate and decide when they have to use one of the tenses correctly. I usually use the time line to explain the tenses, but since our native language doesn't use any tenses so it's very hard for the stu
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Emotion: smileThank you for your support, it means a lot to me ( and my students). yeah, even though it's hard to learn but it's worth to try.
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