TESL 0110 Assignment 3: Grammar Activity
TESL 0110 Assignment 3: Grammar Activity -Scenario 2- You are teaching a course called English for Academic Purposes in a government-funded program in Manitoba. Your students are CLB 7-8 learners who hope to study at a post-secondary institution after completing this course. Students have been working on writing expository essays. In their writing, you notice that they are still confusing simple past (to report on generalities or truths) and present perfect (to report on aspects from the past which are relevant to the present). Much of the corrective feedback you have provided on their writing so far has been about essay structure. What would you do? -What would you do? - At the beginning of the class, I would let the class know that there seems to be confusion when writing in the simple past tense with the present perfect tense and vice versa. Thus, as to correct the errors occurring, we would look at the two tenses. Warm-up Activity 1 I would arrange the students to work in pairs o