At what level do you teach future tenses to second language students?
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After present tenses! Lol
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i know what u mean. mine is next week. the most helpful site that is free is \nhttp://www.learnspanish.com\nit helps u with superlatives, pres. prog, EVERYTHING. it'll definitely help u wit subjunctive
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We evoling in tense but mecidenice is not factaci in coutry genarrly. That's because we publisely far ahead we'll taught.
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english as a second language?\nno comprende, senorita.
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I would suggest eTandem! That way a learner can learn English, but also teach some of their own language(s).
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El profe de español me dio una tarea.  \n(My professor in Spanish gave me an assignment.) \n\nMe puse a estudiar los pretéritos de español para esa tarea.\n(I started studying the past tenses of Spanish for that assignment.)\n\nYo sabía nada así que vine a Yahoo Answers en busca de respuestas. \n(I didn't know a thing so I went to Yahoo Answers to look for answers).
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If you think about it, the way English does indirect objects with their accompanying pronouns is confusing.\n\nIf you are using the indirect object pronoun first, no "to" is necessary:\nMy mother told me a story.\nBill gave me a beautiful present.\n\nHowever, if you want to put the indirect object pronoun last, you should use "to":\nMy mother told a story to me.\nBill gave a beautiful present to me.\n\nThat's all well and good, but what if you are just using the indirect object, without a direct object?  It's kind of up in the air:\n\nHarry's father explained to him.\n*Harry's father explained him. (The * indicates ungrammaticality).\n\nSince there is no direct object in this sentence, it seems hard to determine whether a "to" will be required or not, because we can't tell from the relative positions of the indirect object and the direct object.\n\nIt gets even more complicated when there are two pronouns, since different dialects of English allow different ways:\nGive it me. (Okay in some dialects of English.)\nGive it to me. (Okay in other dialects of English.)\n\nThat's an explanation of the grammar behind the situation.  However, my true answer is that people who are not native speakers of English don't have the same kind of grammar system in their minds that native speakers do.  Being a non-native speaker of a couple of other languages, I would hope that you recognize that you don't do things exactly like native speakers of those languages do.  (Even the most fluent non-native speakers are usually aware of their limitations.)\n\nAlso being a non-native speaker of a couple of different languages, you may recognize that being corrected on something doesn't meant that you are able to change it in your speech right away.  It appears that the processes of second language acquisition are not as sensitive to conscious correction as we sometimes might hope.  So perhaps you think that people are being resistant to your corrections, when they are actually behaving quite normally according to established second language acquisition behavior.
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i learned by listining to parents and children talking to each other... it comes alot faster when there is no english that is present.... always remember ne-verb-pas for not
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It really depends on which form of the word your teacher is looking for, but here are a few sentences.\nThe suspect's apprehension will take place at nine o'clock.\nThe student's apprehension of the English language made her teacher proud.\n\n*How are my sentences incorrect?*
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Gone Car - Sentence 1 is in a sense a prediction made in the present about an event to take place in the future (at some time in the following ten minutes). Sentence 2 is more on the order of a simple statement about what will be accomplished (or completed) at the moment the next ten minutes have passed. Again the difference between the two sentences is very subtle.\n\nI think there is a fundamental problem which this question illustrates quite well. That problem is this: You are being instructed in the rules of formal English grammar from a textbook. But these are not necessarily the forms that (most) English-speaking peoples use in their everyday conversation. \n\nI think it more likely that one would say (at least here in the U.S.):\n\n1-By ten minutes from now you will have finished reading this.\nor\n1-By the time ten minutes are up you will have finished reading this.\n\nor\n\n1-By the time ten minutes have passed you will be done reading this.\n\nI like the third way best. It is simple and clear. There are other ways to say the same thing besides these three. These are just some of the more common examples.\n\nYou see the problem though. If you use the form I am suggesting here then you are not studying the future perfect tense. But again there is to my mind something lacking in the method of instruction here. I can guarantee you that NO ONE speaking English as a primary language stops to think, "Shall I use future perfect tense her or just future?" It just isn't done. EVER. I had totally forgotten that a tense called future perfect even existed until you called my attention to it again. And this would be the case with most any native speaker who has completed school and pays little attention to rules of grammar. Still we get along and make ourselves understood. The point further is that I think the third example I gave above is easier to understand.\n\nSo that leaves you with a very real dilemma. On the one hand you must learn the formal rules of English grammar from the textbooks as your instructor(s) want you to. But on the other hand, you'd also like to learn how English is actually spoken and written by native users, wouldn't you?\n\nNow, back to your second sentence. It might be said the way you have it. Sure. But you are more likely to hear something like\n\n2-In ten minutes you will finish reading this.\n\nor\n\n\n2-Ten minutes from now you will finish reading this. \n\nWell I have had my say and I'm afraid I may just have confused you more. Just keep this in mind: there is the English of formal grammar on the one hand and on the other, the English as it is actually used by the users. In the very long view (generations or even centuries) the second determines the first.
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Do they?  I'm not watching any english news reports so haven't noticed it.  Grammatically speaking, it is incorrect.  You use the preposition on before specific names of days or dates, like on Monday, or on May 25, but it does not sound right when you say on tomorrow or on yesterday(you can use for before tomorrow and yesterday).  Yeah, it can get annoying, but we have to accept that languages undergo a lot of changes, these also evolve or become extinct like living things, as it is mixed with other languages or when it is spoken by other ethnicities. There is the emergence of a distinctive language spoken in a certain region, like Singlish in Singapore or tag-lish in the Philippines, or maybe Hin-lish in India(they have their own english expressions that you can only hear from that place) Even for British and American English, there are marked differences and so with Australian.  And with the advancement of technology, it can get worse.  Just notice how the young generation seem to have their own english language and spelling.  People nowadays don't even bother with proper spellings.  As long as it sounds the same, it is okay, which can be another pet-peeve for some people.  Maybe in a few years, we'd be speaking in sms language.  \n\nFor the meantime, what you can do is to write to these TV stations and point out about their mistake and maybe they will rectify it.  But don't get too upset about it. It's the natural progression of things in this world.
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If you don't mind me asking, how old are you, and if you're still at school, what level are you at?  (Just so I can get an idea of what would be most suitable) I teach English (in particular, grammar and writing) in Asia.  Many of the TESOL TESL and TEFL websites have great lessons, guides and quizzes to help you with grammar and spelling.  Although they are designed to teach kids whose English is a second language, it still helps clear up all of those tricky intracies of English Grammar.  Dave's ESL cafe is a good one, as are the links listed in the sources below.\n\nIf I have time, I could maybe proofread something for you and tell you how you are going.\n\nGood luck!\n\ne.xox8
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The main tenses are the Present, Future and Imperfect, but there are also other tenses that take the present stem. They list them helpfully on this site, with tables of the endings involved.
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Look under English 101.
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One of my future goals is to teach people proper grammer.
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There are grammatical errors directly related to the person's native language.  In Spanish, the key errors are preposition choice, verb conjugation, and noun-adjective sequence.\n\nThe best way for them to learn is to do "real" communication practice. Constantly model back their sentences, correctly, and have them repeat it back to you. Do sentence building exercizes, where students brainstorm words for each category (article, adjective, noun, verb, adverb or prep. phrase), then build sentences using the words they brainstormed. Do shared writing, where as a group you write a story, focusing on correct word order.\n\nHere are some links with ideas and information:\n\nhttp://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/help_ELL_lit_la.phtml\n\nhttp://noncredit.cocc.edu/ABE/ELL/Online+Resources/default.aspx\n\nhttp://www.ncte.org/pubs/journals/ej/articles%5C124645.htm
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Is that how you will teach your students how to spell?