The Future Continuous verb form indicates an action or an event that will be in progress at sometime in the future. As you can see from the timeline here, the action begins in the future and continues past a specific time the speaker is talking about. For example,...
The Present Participle is a participle that ends in -ing. We use it with the auxiliary verb to be to form the continuous tenses: {be} + (verb -ing} I was walking home. She is running for the bus. Form The present participle is formed by adding -ing to the bare...
Questions are used to get information we do not already have. There are a number of different ways of forming questions in English depending on the kind of information we want. Questions are basically the other side of the coin to statements in that statements give...
Your Mother Tongue (or MT) is the language you learn and speak as a child. It is sometimes known as First Language (FL), Native Language (NL) or Arterial Language. Note that it is NOT always the language spoken by your mother! It is usually the language learned in the...
Concept Checking is a way to make sure your students have understood what you have been explaining. It's about asking the right questions. These two examples show why concept checking is necessary in your classroom: Example 1 You asked your students to read a...
Whilst it is true that in many countries around the world English teaching positions can be found all year round, some months are better than others and whenever possible you should try and apply for a job when the demand is at its highest so to avoid frustration and...
You can find near-perfect weather, lush produce and tasty food, an easy-going lifestyle and sociable people if you're working as an English teacher in Colombia. But what about the crime rate, violence and drug problem? It's probably just not what you think it is and...
We use possessive adjectives with nouns to show possession or ownership. Like most adjectives they come before the noun which they describe: {possessive adjective} + {noun} your + car his + mother its + food There are seven possessive adjectives in English: my...
When we use a preposition, we can follow it with the gerund: {verb phrase} + {preposition} + {gerund} He coughed before beginning to speak. They succeeded in breaking the door down. With most prepositions this is no problem. However, when we use the preposition to,...
A Participle is a form of a verb. In English there are two participles: Present Participle Past Participle Usage We use the participles to help form different verb tenses. For example in this first example we use just the basic verb form known as the...
