Past Simple Worksheet

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Past Simple Presentation

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Top 3 The Most Common Mistakes with Present Simple

Oh, I'm in a really big trouble. You cannot even imagine how difficult it is to define the number one mistake of all times.

#1 Adding -(e)s

Wow! I think students mix everything in so many ways with these endings. The most popular grammar topics you need to practice for avoiding this mistake:

• sometimes students do not know the rules for adding ending -(e)s;
• someone forgets to add -(e)s after the verb in 3rd person singular;
• students usually missuse do and does;
• the same goes with don't and doesn't;

#2 Sentence structure with auxilary verb 'to be'

This one is one of my favourite too.  

Usually when students learn do (does) they forget about 'to be' at all. Normally, a teacher can hear something like this in the classroom:

• I am do this exercise every day.
• He is not play piano.

#3 Word order mixed up

Most talented students are able to mix up every possible variation of word order.

The main trick here for the teacher is to make students understand the core structure SVO.

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Lights're on

This phrase always makes me smile. It represents the absence of mental activity in the people's minds in very kindly manner.

Meaning:

• Someone who is mentally vacant (according to urban dictionary); 
• Something that you say when you think someone is stupid, or when someone does not react because they are thinking about something else (foun on free dictionary); 

There's even a song with this awesome idiom here.

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Meeting Students' Needs

Our lives are full of challenges and demands.

As a teacher, I feel myself in constant hunt for new materials and methods. This inner state of searching is quite stressful itself. In addition to it, we have students with different needs. Sometimes to hear their needs & objectives in learning and stick to them while teaching is hard work.

Recently I have met adult people who are successful in their careers. They are aware of business procedures of goal setting and getting specific results. In other words, adult students from international companies realize what they want to achieve in short-term milestones.

• Do we plan our lessons in accordance with our students' objectives? 

• Do we adjust our plans and methods to students' needs? 

• Do our students feel satisfied with the progress?

I think it is important to ask yourselves this question from time to time. Having some good plan for teaching, the material taken from some excellent book cannot be just good enough.

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Confidence

Confidence has several main meanings:

1. feeling somebody/something is good
2. believe in yourself
3. feeling something is true
4. a secret or keep information secret

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Past Simple: Usage

We continue our conversation on Past Simple. Today we talk on Past Simple usage.
Understanding the situations for each tense is very crucial. Every tense form gives you a background information for the story you wat to tell.

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Have Other Fish to Fry

To have other fish to fry

• to have something more important or more interesting to do 

"When it was time to act, they had other fish to fry."

 Difinitions are taken from here and examples are taken from there.

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Past Simple

Today we take a quick look on the Past Simple Tense.

First, let's look at the formation of Past Simple Tense.

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A Frog in the Throat

To have a frog in the/one's throat

• to lose voice; to have a hoarseness of a voice:

"I feel like I'm getting a frog in my throat when I have to speak in public. She says she gets a frog in her throat when she is nervous."

Difinitions are taken from the Erudite Dictionary app and examples are taken from here.

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Present Continuous Presentation

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Come clean

Come clean

• (idiomatic) to confess; to admit the truth 
• to tell the truth about something that you have been keeping secret: 

"I thought it was time to come clean (with everybody) about what I'd been doing."

Difinitions and examples are taken from here.

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Change off

Change off

• to alternate with another at doing an act:

"Tom and I changed off so neither of us had to answer the phone all thetime. Let's change off every 30 minutes."

• to alternate between two different acts or instruments or between an action and a rest period:

"Every so often I changedoff between pushing and pulling the cart up the hill."

Difinitions and examples are taken from here.

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Present Continuous: Exceptions

Though it is the simpliest tense, it has some exceptions and few exceptions from those exceptions. Don't panic!!!

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Point out

Point out

• to indicate: "Everyone pointed the error out." 
• to bring to notice: "As Dulce had pointed out, he was trying to get away from the family." 
• to show something: "The story she pointed out was headlined, Psychic Help Finding Lost Children?"

Difinitions are taken from here and examples are from there.

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Present Continuous Worksheet

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Present Continuous Worksheet

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Are You a Master of Your Life?

How can we master our own lives?

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What is an opportunity?

How would you define an opportunity?

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What is your attitude to life?

What is your attitude to life?

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Quote of the Day

Possible topic for discussion: Can you remember yourself when you seemed to lose everything?

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Possible questions for discussion

How do you understand 'with all your heart'?
What does this quote say about? Travelling or something else?

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Quote of the Day

Topic for discussion: What have you learned about the life so far?

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Topic for discussion: do love taking pictures?

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Topic for discussion: What books do you love reading?

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Present Continuous

Present Continuous is not a mystery at all. But for those who are at a loss, let's take a closer look.

Usage

These are the main rules for using Present Continuous:

• Action going on at the present moment.

'You are talking nonsense.'

• When there are two action one of which is in process (Present Continuos) the other is a habitual action (Present Simple).

'I never talk when I'm working.'

• Future action as something fixed.

'He is coming tomorrow.'

• Continual process usually with the words always, constantly, ever, etc.

'The Earth is always moving.'
'She is always complaining.'

Formation

Affirmative

'I'm writing a letter.'

Negative
'I'm not writing a letter.'

Question
'Am I writing a letter?'

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The Road

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Is Survival a Talent?

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The Way I Teach Present Simple and Present Continuous

Lately I have made a discovery for myself. 

Usually I start teaching tenses for my students with the Present Simple, which is quite logical. It is the first tense you use to say anything in English: your name, your age, where you live, what you like. I thought having students understood their first grammar structure correctly is very nice. From the very first lessons, they would know how to use at least some structure in a right way. Isn't it great? No, it's not. Believe me it's bitter truth for me too.

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Present Simple Presentation

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To your attention and for your consideration I present my Presentation which is free for downloading and you're welcomed to improve it your way.

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Here is the link to my wonderful presentation:

Present Simple Presentation

I think for now it is my last post on Present Simple. We are moving on other grammar structures!
You are welcomed to study other resources for the same topic: Present Simple Questions, Negatives, Free Worksheet, How to Teach Present Simple and Present Continuous.

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Wonderful Icebreaker: Guest who am I?

My favourite game to start a lesson with all the groups of students is "Guess who am I".
Reasons I love it are very obvious:

• It is fun to play both with children and adults.
• It is easy to prepare if you don't have one ready. Of course, I will provide you with some wonderful worksheet for that:)
• It gives you general idea of your students' level of English. It is the main trick I love this game for. The way your students communicate shows their fluency in speach.

Good luck playing it.

Here are some ideas for possible personas to choose:

1. You're Terminator
2. You're Shrek
3. You're Ali Baba, etc.

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