Tense and aspect

reach and sight Tense and vista argon the most key grammatical categories for expressing metre and temporal relations in slope. For me, I forget share my experience straight I am an side schooler at Udonthani Vocational College. I train many an(prenominal) English public lifes much(prenominal) as English for communication 2 , English Conversation , business organisation English .In each bloodline I founder taught 4 style skills such as listening skill, writing skill, speaking skill and plow out skill. Students moldiness let out every language skills becaexercising English is very central . If you want to communicate English very well you must(prenominal) practice 4 language skills. According to the topic 28 Tense and aspect They are very necessary in teach grammar. Students must learn how to use filtrate and aspect. I pass on teach every English course besides I dont teach them all at the analogous time. The aim of teaching try and aspect is to battlefie ld various linguistic approaches to the description of filtrate and aspect in English Moreover the course description give be the focus of the ways of expressing insert, past, time to come 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 issue and provide the lesson which related the course description from many textbooks. I rent some content and combine 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 try and aspect to teach in each unit . In unit one I taught well-nigh family . I will choose indicate Tense of verb to be and verb to do. Students must know the mental synthesis of Tense . How or when to use it? How to make Wh- inquiry. In unit 2 I taught to the highest degree keeping a diary. Students must know and understand ago childly Tense. They can herald the write up 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 meaning of tense and aspect and also had understanding .I will show you the content as followWhat is Tense? The Definition of Tense (noun) a form of a verb use to indicate the time . Tense is a method that we use in English to refer to time. There are three of import principle of tenses . They are past tense , present tense and future tense. I will explain the meaning of each Tense. First, state Tense verb show something is happening right now or at the present time. Second, Past tense verbs which make out about actions which happened some time ago are past tense verbs . Third, prox 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 commit no tenses, barely of course they can free talk about time, using 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? reflection expresses a feature of the action related to time such as completion rod duration. Present dim-witted and past simple tenses fall in no aspect. Aspect always include Perfect Tenses and Progressive or endless Tense .For examplePerfective aspect ( be+ ing) My parents meet lived in Udon Thani since move October. I scram studied English since nett year.Progressive aspect ( have+ past participle) They are reading newspaper in the room.David is washing his motorcar at home.There are m any words that are time clues some can be apply 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 t up to(p) is non a complete listing of all the time clues that can be used with all of the tensesLesson PlanSubject English For Communication 2 Level Certificate 1 Instructor Mrs. Sutida IntawaiObjectives Students will be able to 1.to inductively review both struture and names of basic tensesContentVocabulary Food, nationalities, dates and time, restaurantsStructures Present simple tensePresent unceasing tensePresent ameliorate tensePresent holy consecutive tensePast simple tensePast continuous tensePast utter(a) tensePast perfect continuous tenseFuture simple tenseFuture continuous tenseFuture perfect tenseFuture perfect continuous tenseFunctions 1. Talking about Tense and aspect learn procedures /ActivitiesWarm up / Lead in 1. The teacher greets students and tell them that they are going to learn about outline goals for todays crime syndicate.Presentation1. instructor 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 4Have students take personal info quiz in groupsCheck answers as a class, ask students to speedily speak about what they have learned about their fellow students achievementHave groups identify tense names used in questionGive auxiliary verb exercise to students to be done individually determine 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 , subroutine library , newspaper and Self Access Learning Center in the college.Teaching aids/ materialsChartAuthentic material newspaper , food posterTextbookEvaluation and measurementObserving the participation in classCorrecting the exercisesPersonal noteLanguage PointsAffirmative SentencePresent transparent (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 does physical exercise I live in Nakonnayok but my sister lives in Prachinburi.( We use the present simple for things that are lawful 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 / unremarkably / sometimes) We always travel by train. I often try to arrive my computer. He washes his car every weekend. She usually carries her note book computer to work.Negative Sentences Patt ern 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. Mary 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 overseas?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 d oing?9. Where are your classes taught?10. What are you going to do after this course finishes?What are the names of the tenses used in the above 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 t he teacher of English should develop their 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 Course in Everyday English ( 20001201) ameliorate 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