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While (thankfully) none of the grammar in this unit was new to me, I really enjoyed reading about the most common student mistakes/errors and thinking about how to fix those errors. It was a particularly helpful exercise for me to pinpoint and put words to the mistakes/errors my own students here in Japan make. (Participles, for example, seem particularly tricky...)
I liked the thorough lists of usages for each tense, with those lists always including an example. Ideally, all students should have a compact appendix with those usages and examples, so they can always quickly refer to the chart while doing homework (or even to glance at on their phone while having a real-life conversation!). For me, orally drilling these examples of common usage is also important, so students can work on developing a sort of "native ear"--that instinct for when a verb is being used correctly or not.
Finally, I was really happy to find examples of activities for each type of verb tense. (I'm going to play 20 Questions with my students this evening!) I liked the "Find someone who..." Bingo game for the present simple, and I liked the "time zone" game and the "describe the noise your pair is making" game for the present continuous. I'm definitely going to use some of these activities in my bi-weekly adult classes!
