VERBS, TENSES and STRUCTURES
This section covers verbs, tenses and structures.
Verb is any member of a class of words that function as the main elements of predicates, that typically express action, state, or a relation between two things, and that may be inflected for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and to show agreement with their subject or object. (Dictionary.com,https://www.dictionary.com/browse/verb?s=t, accessed 28.12.2019)
Tense is a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb. (Dictionary.com,https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tense?s=ts, accessed 28.12.2019).
In this section teachers will be able to access resources for teaching the following grammar topics:
- Verb “to be”
- Simple Present
- Present Continuous
- Simple Past
- Past Continuous
- Present Perfect
- Present Perfect Continuous
- Future: will, going to, present continuous for arrangements
- Imperatives
- Common irregular verbs and past participles
- Common gerunds and infinitives
- Modal Verbs: can, must, may, might, would, should, could, used to, don't have to
- Common phrasal verbs
- Conditional sentences Types 1 & 2
- Relative clauses
- Passive Voice
- Impersonal constructions: “It's cold”, “It's necessary”, “There's a new cinema in town”
Verb “to be”
To introduce the verb 'to be' you can use the following video lessons, in class. Alternatively, you can have your students (at home) or in th...
Simple Present
The simple present is a verb tense. It is also called present simple and present indefinite. It is used to show repetition, habit or ge...
Present Continuous
The Present continuous is also called present progressive. It is a verb tense which is used to show an ongoing action that is taking place now...
Simple Past
The Simple past can also be called past simple, past indefinite or preterite. It is a verb tense which is used to show that a completed a...
Past Continuous
The Past continuous can also be called past progressive. It is a verb tense which is used to refer to an ongoing past action that was hap...
Present Perfect
The Present Perfect is used to describe an action performed during an unspecified period between the past and now, and has not yet finish...
Present Perfect Continuous
The present perfect continuous is also called present perfect progressive. It is used to refer to an action that has started in the past and has conti...
Future: will, going to, present continuous for arrangements
There are two different ways to talk about the future: Simple future: Going to + infinitive. It is used to denote an event that is ong...
Imperatives
Imperatives are mostly used for giving orders, instructions (as to how to perform a task), for requesting or advising somebody to do (or not to do) so...
Common irregular verbs and past participles
You can begin by reminding students of the rules of formation of regular verbs. REGULAR VERBS IRREGULAR VERBS Base Form Past Simple :...
Common gerunds and infinitives
Both gerunds and infinitives can be used as the subject or the complement of a sentence. Gerunds usually sound more like normal, spoken English, where...
Impersonal constructions
In English you can use impersonal expressions with infinitives. The format of these expressions is the following: "It is + adjective/noun to" + infi...
Modal Verbs: can, must, may, might, would, should, could, used to, don´t have to
Modal verbs are used to express modality, like likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestions, order, obligation, or advice. In the...
Common phrasal verbs
A phrasal verb is a combination of words (a verb + a preposition or verb + adverb) that when used together, usually take on a different meaning...
Conditional sentences Types 1, 2, 3
Conditional sentences are also known as Conditional Clauses or If Clauses and they are used to express that the action in the main clause (without if)...
Relative clauses
Relative clauses are clauses starting with the relative pronouns who, whom (used as the object of the relative clause), that, which, whose, where...
Passive Voice
Verbs have both active and passive voice. Active voice: It is when a subject does an action to an object. Passive voice:It is when a noun that wou...
Impersonal constructions: Personal and impersonal passive in English
Personal and impersonal passive in English You can use the following two video resources to explain personal and impersonal constructions in English....