Customer Reviews
Teaching Tenses - By: , 15 Sep 2005 
This book is very good both for the teacher & the student. I can photocopy explanations for my students because the tenses are explained very clearly & the photocopiable section is easily adapted for use with many activities.
I would recommend this book to TEFL/TESOL students & to ESOL teachers.
A Must for any EFL Teacher - By: , 07 Feb 2004 This book is a comprehensive analysis of the English tenses. Each tense is carefully outlined with examples & uses. There is also a section about learner difficulties for each of them. Tables & timelines are included throughout.
I recommend this book to any EFL teacher. Using this book it is suddenly easy to prepare lessons where new tenses are introduced. The examples & uses make preparation a piece of cake; the section on difficulties helps you to anticipate potential problems.
I would say this is an essential EFL book.
Teaching tenses without tensing up... - By: , 19 Oct 2002 This book is excellent. It was the main thing that helped me get through my TEFL course. It explained tensesin a way which was so straight forward, I had no trouble understanding them myself! It also provided excellent suggestions on practical exercises to use with your students. During my course, when it fell to me to teach the second conditional, those exercises proved priceless. All new EFL teachers should have one.
A really good book for TEFL Teachers - By: , 18 Sep 1999 If only all TEFL books were written as well as this, we would have an easier life. This book is particularly useful for native speakers (Learning English is another)in that it gives clear guidance on the seemingly chaotic rules that the English tense system follows.
For each tense, we are provided with the form & function of the tense, suggested contexts with which to introduce it, & a list of problems that foreign students often have, & means of solving them. The back of the book comprises a large set of photocopiable drawings to elicit tenses from students.
This is the one TEFL book I would not be without.
