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Unit 6 has begun to offer me some rules to help organize the four different forms of a tense. I found the introduction on the first page of our material to be helpful in setting a groundwork. Because we covered Present Tenses in Unit 4, I had comparison information for the Past Tenses. The statement that “All continuous forms feature some form of the auxiliary verb ‘to be’ plus the ‘ing’ form of a verb’ prompted me to refer to the Present Continuous form in the previous unit to verify the rule. Likewise, I checked the perfect forms to note the presence of the auxiliary verb “to have” along with the verb with “d” or “ed” added. For example, an affirmative present perfect “She has walked” and the affirmative past perfect “She had walked” demonstrates the continuity of that rule.
Because I see these rules as a way of organizing the forms of tenses, I am more confident of being able to explain the to new learners of English. At the same time, once things can be categorized in groups, it allows for smaller groups of information to have to be memorized separately. This same principle seems to apply to rules with regular or irregular verb endings. In my own studies in foreign languages, I found it useful to be able to apply rules to remind myself of appropriate conjugation, leaving only irregular verbs to memorize. Further, I now find myself able to direct students’ attention to the structure of the sentence to guide them, as opposed to simply memorizing vocabulary.
I also appreciated the emphatic reminder in the accompanying video about worksheets being a better tool for the “Study” phase of a lesson plan, while the series of pictures or perhaps narrating a series of actions in a previous day would offer a better exercise for the “Activate” portion of a lesson.
My reflections on this Unit have revolved around using these rules as useful tools by which to effectively offer direction to students learning a target language.
