Introduce irregular verbs Irregular verbs require a special introduction. If students aren’t familiar with irregular verbs, they may find it difficult to form perfect tenses correctly. Irregular verbs do not have past and past participle forms ending in –ed. There are only a limited number of irregular verbs in English. Many of them are very […]

Teaching the present perfect tense is not easy and that is hardly surprising. Although the present perfect is a present tense, it is mainly used to talk about events that happened in the past. This can be quite confusing for ESL learners. Consequently, they tend to use the past simple in cases where the present […]