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May 26, 2006
Using Short Paragraph Stories to Teach Simple Past in English - Part
Whenever I have to teach the Simple Past tense in English, one activity I always use is speaking and writing practice using some short "stories" that I made up. Writing them was a lot more difficult than I'd originally imagined since use of only regular verbs in a narrative is not really authentic language. Native speakers simply don't talk that way. But, to give my EFL English students some practice in writing the forms of regular verbs in past and especially in pronouncing them, I came up with a couple of shorts using only this form. They're harder to read and pronounce than "normal," but the intensive practice seems to be quite helpful. So, I continue to use them even though I know this speech pattern is not going to occur in natural English
From Using Short Paragraph Stories to Teach Simple Past in English - Part
Posted by Joe at May 26, 2006 12:48 PM
