So, as a Tutorhow many of these tenses do you teach.
Present Simple I study English. Present continuous I am studying English. Present perfect I have studied English. Present perfect continuous I have been studying English. Past simple I studied English. Past continuous I was studying English. Past perfect I had studied English. Past perfect continuous I had been studying English. Future simple I will study English. Future continuous I will be studying English. Future perfect I will have studied English. Future perfect continuous I will have been studying English.
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It depends in the student's needs.
If students want to be proficient in English they must be able to understand and be able to use all the tenses.
I teach all the tenses! we need all of them for speaking! right?
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It all depends on the needs of the student
- DaniloTeaching English linguistics
I'm studying English tomorrow. or the "be going to" construction: I'm going to study English tomorrow. or by using modal verbs: I might study English tomorrow. I could study English tomorrow. I will study English tomorrow. The difference between will, could and might in these sentences is not in the tense, but in the degree of certainty with which we are referring to the situation of studying English tomorrow. I mean, if "I will studying English tomorrow" is to be understood as the "Future Continuous Tense", how am I supposed to categorize : "I might be studying English tomorrow". There are so many "tenses" listed here, but there isn't one to fit this sentence into. It only goes to show how deeply flawed is the idea behind such grammatical model.
- DaniloTeaching English linguistics
It doesn't work and it can't possibly work because it's all based on half-baked and misinformed ideas about language. Students need to make sure they have a good grasp of the fundamental concepts of language before they venture into learning more complex stuff. One of those basic concepts is the tense of the verb. A verb tense is far from being the first thing the student should learn about language, but it is of course one of the important concepts that they need to understand clearly. Long story short, next time you encounter those intimidating phrases such as "future perfect continuous tense" and similar, you stop reading right then and there, because from that point on you will only be exposing yourself to misleading and confusing information. In English we can talk about future situations in a number of ways, but there isn't a dedicated verb tense that is used solely for that purpose. So, we can use the present tense and the progressive aspect (continued in another post)
- DaniloTeaching English linguistics
I recommend you stop thinking about those constructions as tenses. As far as English is concerned, there are only two verb tenses: preterite and present tense. (Not counting in the perfect as a composite tense which constitutes a secondary tense system in English). I've taught English to students across the globe, and if I'm to pick a single most problematic point about the traditional methods of teaching language, it would definitely be teaching these so-called "tenses". It does damage to the student, undermines his learning confidence, and puts him off studying language. Instead of being given a proper shot at learning the basic ideas underlying the use of language, students are being exposed to these utterly misleading misconceptions about a zillion verb tenses and stuff. What's worse they jump straight into it and the other familiar, equally misleading ideas such as phrasal verbs, complex/compound/complex-compound sentences etc.
If you are including 'conversation' as a part of your lesson you will naturally use all of them at some point. As a native speaker, it just depends on the conversation. And as it has been said, depending on the goals of the student, you will structure the lesson to be sure they practice what is needed.
Depends on the goals that my student and I set and what their needs are.
Student needs to be taught according to his or her needs of learning. Not necessarily all of them
I can teach all. I had taught all to students at different levels...individually and as a class.
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