Tenses

‘English tense’ is a rather confusing phrase, don’t you think? What is a ‘tense’?? Therefore I rather use the phrase English ‘Time Slots’ instead when teaching ‘tenses’. The angle, with which tenses are taught, is from confusing diagrams in which the tenses are nicely laid out, but with little effect when you have to memorize the diagram… (not to mention how to apply it correctly), and use the correct tense, especially in a test setting! Then the names of the Tenses: The Present Indefinite-, Present Continuous-, Present Perfect Tenses, The Past Indefinite, - Continuous, - Perfect Tenses, as well as the Future Indefinite, - Continuous, - Perfect Tenses, as well as the Present Perfect Continuous Tense, the Past Perfect Continuous and the Future Perfect Continuous Tense... !! Now teach this to an English Additional Language learner! There is a key though, as explained in the T4E model, which will blow your mind and is rather revolutionary in its approach! To make it real easy, when teaching English grammar in tenses, I only use the names of the main time slots, the Present-, Past- and Future time slots.

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 the needed context.

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.

Training Conferences

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.