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Frutadomar Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
Time relationships grammar
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00 I am a new EFL teacher without training. I did some volunteer work back in the United States so I learned how to teach some aspects of grammar but I still have some things I need help with. 00 00 I have a grammar point in one of my books called time relationships 00 There are adverbial phrases: As soon as…, until…, whenever…, while…, after…, before…. 00 00 While I know how to use these phrases as a native speaker, I 00 00 don’t know about how I would teach them and I am having trouble thinking of rules. Could someone perhaps help me with this? 00 Thank you 0-Top answer
02 br 00 ... 02 br 00 I'd suggest illustrating English tenses and time relations by means of a simple graphical notation: just draw a time axis and show everything thereon: a section would be a period of time (occupied by an action), a point — a moment of time. 02 br 02 br 00 As a non-native speaker who never had trouble with this matter, I am just wondering: What kind(s) of problem do your students have??
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- 02 br 00 I'd suggest illustrating English tenses and time relations by means of a simple graphical notation: just draw a time axis and show everything thereon: a section would be a period of time (occupied by an action), a point — a moment of time.
- 02 br 02 br 00 As a non-native speaker who never had trouble with this matter, I am just wondering: What kind(s) of problem do your students have??
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0 Aren't definitions enough? 02 br
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00 "While" — two actions/processes happen simultaneously 02 br
00 "As soon as" — Too events occur at the same moment of time 02 br
00 "Until" — One actions is terminated by an event (start of another action, for example) 02 br
00 "After" — One action lies (on the time axis) to the left of some point (if a
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00 "While" — two actions/processes happen simultaneously 02 br
00 "As soon as" — Too events occur at the same moment of time 02 br
00 "Until" — One actions is terminated by an event (start of another action, for example) 02 br
00 "After" — One action lies (on the time axis) to the left of some point (if a
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"as soon as" is used to express that one event happens immediately after another one not at the same time.
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