Tense and aspect

Tense and looking Tense and aspect atomic number 18 the most in-chief(postnominal) grammatical categories for expressing cadence and temporal relations in English. For me, I will share my experience right away I am an English indoctrinateer at Udonthani Vocational College. I teach many English courses such as English for communication 2 , English Conversation , Business English .In each course I constitute taught 4 language adroitnesss such as listening skill, writing skill, speaking skill and reading skill. Students moldiness learn each language skills beca single-valued function English is very important . If you want to communicate English very well you must practice 4 language skills. According to the radical 28 Tense and aspect They are very necessary in teaching grammar. Students must learn how to use extend and aspect. I will teach every English course but I dont teach them all at the same time. The aim of teaching tense and aspect is to deliberate miscellaneous linguistic approaches to the description of tense and aspect in English Moreover the course description will be the focus of the ways of expressing present, bygone, future time. Now I will explain you some English course that I teach in this semester. Before start teaching I will study the course discription from the Vocational Education Commission curriculum. After that I will construc the course syllabus follow the the curriculum. I do the course outline by myself. Then I will study the content and provide the lesson which related the course description from many textbooks. I choose some content and coincide to one book. For example I teach English for Conversation 2 (2000-1202) for the first year student in accounting field. I teach 18 Weeks in each semester. I must plan my teaching 9 units (1 unit per 2 week) I will choose some tense and aspect to teach in each unit . In unit one I taught almost family . I will choose Present Tense of verb to be and verb to do. Students must k at one time the structure of Tense . How or when to use it? How to make Wh-question. In unit 2 I taught about keeping a diary. Students must know and understand departed Simple Tense. They can tell the story in the past . The most important thing before to teach teacher must prepare their teaching and lesson plan . Teacher must improve teaching method and strategies The teachers must know the think uping of tense and aspect and likewise had understanding .I will show you the content as followWhat is Tense? The Definition of Tense (noun) a form of a verb apply to indicate the time . Tense is a method that we use in English to refer to time. in that respect are three main principle of tenses . They are past tense , present tense and future tense. I will explain the meaning of each Tense. First, Present Tense verb show something is happening right now or at the present time. Second, Past tense verbs which tell about actions which happened some time ago are past tense verbs . Th ird, Future tense mean verbs which tell about actions which are going to happen are future tense verbs. Many languages use tenses to talk about time. Other language shit no tenses, but of course they can still talk about time, victimisation different methods. I will talk about time in English with tense. For example Jirapon goes to temple. ( Present Tense) Udom went to school yesterday ( Past Tense) Suki will go to school tomorrow ( Future Tense)What is aspect? Aspect expresses a bluster of the action related to time such as completion rod duration. Present childly and past simple tenses shake off no aspect. Aspect unceasingly include Perfect Tenses and Progressive or continuous Tense .For examplePerfective aspect ( be+ ing) My parents have resided in Udon Thani since last October. I have studied English since last year.Progressive aspect ( have+ past participle) They are reading newspaper in the room.David is washing his cable car at home.There are many words that are ti me clues some can be used to indicate a number of tenses, for instance that something happened in the past or that it will happen in the future. If you learn to recognize these time clues, you will find them very helpful. Note that some time clues can be used with more than one verb tense and also that this table is not a complete listing of all the time clues that can be used with all of the tensesLesson Plan field of honor English For Communication 2 Level Certificate 1 Instructor Mrs. Sutida IntawaiObjectives Students will be able to 1.to inductively review both(prenominal) struture and names of basic tensesContentVocabulary Food, nationalities, dates and time, restaurantsStructures Present simple tensePresent continuous tensePresent ideal tensePresent perfect continuous tensePast simple tensePast continuous tensePast perfect tensePast perfect continuous tenseFuture simple tenseFuture continuous tenseFuture perfect tenseFuture perfect continuous tenseFunctions 1. Talking a bout Tense and aspectTeaching procedures /ActivitiesWarm up / Lead in 1. The teacher greets students and tell them that they are going to learn about outline goals for todays class. origination1.Teacher presents the charts of structure of tense and aspect .Let them guess the kind of tense and aspect.PracticeTeacher divide students into groups of 2 to 4 pick out students take personal nurture quiz in groupsCheck answers as a class, ask students to quickly speak about what they have learned about their fellow studentsProductionHave groups identify tense names used in questionGive auxiliary verb physical exercise to students to be done individuallyCorrect auxiliary exercise in classWrap upTeacher and students discuss and summarize about this unit together.Teacher suggests students for further study by searching for more information from other resources for example, internet , library , newspaper and Self Access Learning Center in the college.Teaching aids/ real(a)sChartAuthentic mate rial newspaper , food menuTextbookEvaluation and measurementObserving the participation in classCorrecting the exercisesPersonal noteLanguage PointsAffirmative article of faithPresent Simple (I do, work, like etc.)She works in the office. They talk about their project.Subject VerbI / We / You /They work talk use play watch doHe / She / It works talks uses plays watches doesExample I live in Nakonnayok but my sister lives in Prachinburi.( We use the present simple for things that are align in general, or for things that happen sometimes or all the times) I walk to school. The museum open at 09.00 a.m. and closes at 05.30 p.m. Suda goes to work in the morning. He does everything that she asks.(We use the present simple with always/ never/ often / usually / sometimes) We always travel by train. I often try to fix my computer. He washes his car every weekend. She usually carries her note book computer to work.Negative Sentences Pattern I dont + verb (present simple negative)Example Santa doesnt come. The racing car doesnt slow.Subject Auxiliary Verb + not VerbI / You / We / They don t workHe / She / It doesnt work I drink coffee but I dont drink tea. The children dont play in the park. bloody shame doesnt go to the library. She drinks tea but she doesnt drink coffee.Question Sentence Pattern Do you.. (Present simple question).?Example Do they work? Does she work?Auxiliary Verb Subject Verb +?Do I /we / you / they work?Does He / she/ it work? Do you smoke? No, I dont. Do they speak English? Yes, they do. Does she work hard? Yes, she does Does your brother live in Bangkok? No, he does.Worksheet 1Personal Information Quiz1. When did you last see a film?2. How many times have you been oversea?3. What type of books do you like reading?4. When were you born?5. How long have you been learning English?6. What will the weather be like tomorrow?7. What were you doing at 7 oclock yesterday evening?8. What are your parents doing?9. Where are your classes taught?10. Wha t are you going to do after this course finishes?What are the names of the tenses used in the higher up question?1. Present simple tense2. Present continuous tense3. Present perfect tense4. Present perfect continuous tense5. Past simple tense6. Past continuous tense7. Past perfect tense8 Past perfect continuous tense 9. Future simple tense 10. Future continuous tense 11. Future perfect tense 12. Future perfect continuous tenseFrom http//esl.about.comWorksheet 2Complete the table using examples from the text in activity B1Worksheet 3Match the verb forms (1-6) with their main concepts (a-f)Worksheet 4Writing Simple present Tense In conclusion, Tense and aspect are still problem for Thai learners. There are many error when do they speak and confuse because they speak English similar Thai speaking. They have many problems such as word order and use tense mistake. For example I am not enjoy this film. Lets leave. What do you eating now?etc. So the teacher of English should develop thei r teaching and try to teach students learning by doing. Students will gain English language skill especially Tense and aspect from teacher as well.Reference Heather Jones Ken Method Fast track 1 A communication dustup in Everyday English ( 20001201) Educated Co.,Ltd. 2003 Tawee Omak .English for communication 2 ( 2000-1202) Aimphan PressCo.,Ltd. 2009 Tricia Hedge Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom . Oxford University press.2008http//esl.about.comwww.athabascau.cea