English Tenses 4 Me
This website is a growing resource for teachers and tutors teaching English as an Additional Language, as well as students learning it. All content is written by Jan Stander. He taught English for fourteen years and then left the educational scene to follow his passion - teaching the T4E system / model to anybody that would like to improve their English tenses.
The material in this e-book literally changes the face of teaching the English Language as such. It is revolutionary in that it sets forth a whole new way of thinking when it comes to tenses, and the consequent teaching of the English language.
Using English as an additional language himself, Jan had to figure out ways to teach tenses. As classes were being conducted for Grade 9’s to 11’s, Jan developed a new system to bring across the content with regards to tenses, as well as all language aspects in which tenses feature. After several years he set out to write a book on his findings. This book is the result of this newly developed system and the consequent discoveries he made.
It entails what he calls the ‘English Foundational Language System’, a system that can be easily taught to students and practically applied by them even within the restrictions of a test setting. Therefore this system makes for a convenient aid in all English language teaching as well as for those having to write English tests.
T4E
In the e-book T4E, you will find a solution to an age-old problem: teaching or studying tenses effectively. Tenses do not only comprise of the names of the tenses - past, perfect and future - it entail how to change a sentence into a question or negative; which question tag to add to a sentence; to change a sentence into a passive and active voice; how to report what someone else had said - reported speech; finally how to express the probability for something to happen - 'if sentences'.
A master of tenses will correctly combine the verbs, auxiliary verbs (helping verbs) and time words, thus providing and conveying the needed context. Eventually, this is what tenses are all about: conveying and providing relevant context.
In this book, you will find supplements which go beyond the scope of tenses. He touches on the Articulation of specific difficult sounds in English. Singulars and Plurals are dealt with in another supplement, and then he shares 5 steps to follow for the effective analysis of any poem.
Jan can be contacted for training conferences in which he deals with the teaching of English tenses according to the T4E model he has developed.
Printed book on T4E
Besides the e-book, a printed version of T4E will also be available soon. Contact us for orders.