The English Verb Tenses ‘Ultimate Mind Map’ is just one more weapon in your arsenal, if you’ll forgive the military metaphor. So I developed a system comprising only two basic elements: an arrow and a dot. Here are those download links again, and don’t forget to let me know what you think here. – I’ve been running.’; ‘She’s been cleaning the house all morning, and still hasn’t finished.’, The future perfect continuous form is one I like to wow my students with. In fact, there is sometimes a direct correspondence between a form in the student’s own languages and English, especially if it’s a European one. 5) See 2) and 3) (you get the idea!). Instead I’ll send you to sleep with a little discussion about my timeline diagrams, in case they are, incredibly, not as clear as I’d like to think they are. What is dronfie (drone selfie) and why you should take one? Now go fight them on the benches, and make sure to give some Fun English Lessons whilst doing so! -He was waiting at home all day when she sent him the message. Visit this page now! 4.4.1. I almost left it at that, but in the end I decided to add a smaller, paler dot on either side of the big one to include the ‘habitual, repeating action’ function. Build free Mind Maps, Flashcards, Quizzes and Notes Create, discover and share resources Print & Pin great learning resources Register Now Past Continuous 1.1. Q: Will you have been washing that car for five years in March? 2.3.2.1. 2.3.1.1.1. But, since you will need the third column as well, to form other tenses in English, it is advisable to learn both the second and the third column of irregular verbs. Once upon a time, millions of years ago, long before there were any people, I lived happily with my family. ESL Printables,
We can bowl them over (and often total confuse them) later with all the variations and subtleties that lie within. For questions, we use inversion: Was the film good? For instance, the past tense of fly is flew (fly/ flew / flown) . Mind map: Past simple tense Firstly, take a look at the blue branch on the right which will explain the affirmative (positive) form of the Past Simple tense. Or: I didn’t go to the cinema yesterday.) Anyway, it’s a place absolutely crammed with cool mind maps, including mine – he he! THANK YOU SYLVIE ;). Required fields are marked *. Now this is where things start to get interesting: I decided to use two dots at full intensity! 1.3.1.1.2. -John will be running a marathon this Saturday. 4.3.1. 3.1.1.1. A: The car is going to be washed. Discover (and save!) ), You CAN reproduce it online or embed it in your blog or website as long as you…. And I don’t italicise lightly.. , Colour codes are extremely useful for students so they can see the shared elements, such as the ~ing endings of all the continuous tenses, clearly. (For example: Where did you go yesterday? As I hinted earlier, this was not an easy undertaking. (Example: Louis brought a photo out of his wallet and showed it to us. 1.2. I didn’t find one. So this is my attempt to create one, here and now, just for you guys (I know, I know… I’m too good to you I tried to keep it to the absolute minimum number of symbols required, especially due to the space and time constraints I had. 4.4.2. I am the dinosaur from the past! Again, I simplified. It would have taken too much time, for dubious effects, to attempt to track down and credit the authors of all of these various excellent images. The present perfect simple links the present to a point earlier in time, in other words it links the present to the past. GO / WENT / GONE). Memorize the second column of the irregular verbs! -Am I doing my homework now? So, to sum up, the English tense system is both more extensive and yet more logical and ordered than many students are aware of. If any of the authors of any of these images see them and want a credit and link back to their work I’m only too happy to oblige. 1.2. Further, we shall focus on the cute black sheep, that is, the verb to BE ! the website where English Language teachers exchange resources:
-I am not doing my homework now. 4) Make sure the © Copyright… text is included and intact We often don’t mention both of the points explicitly. Linda visit ed her sister in New York last month. This isn’t a grammar lesson, so I’m not going to send you to sleep with a long boring discourse on the relative merits of the past simple and the present perfect. Welcome to
2.3.2.3. They are, effectively, the same thing. Feel free to share, and I hope it helps you in some way! (Examples: Susan went to Florida on business. 1.3.1.2.3. Vocabulary Mind Maps Collection by Asun Villamil. 2.3.1.2.3. It’s illogical, but it’s unavoidable! Jul 12, 2013 - This Pin was discovered by Priyanka Mathur. For me, that’s by exposing them to as many ways of ‘experiencing’ the language as possible. 2.3.1.1.3. Examples: 1.1.1.1. Active 1.3.1.1.1. Then, we use the Past simple tense when we talk about a past habit.