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The Past Tenses - Past Simple - Usages

 

This video is part of our series on the past tenses in English. We start off the series with the past simple tense. In this video, we focus on the usages of the past simple tense, which mostly include completed actions at a definite time in the past.


Below you can read feedback from an ITTT graduate regarding one section of their online TEFL certification course. Each of our online courses is broken down into concise units that focus on specific areas of English language teaching. This convenient, highly structured design means that you can quickly get to grips with each section before moving onto the next.

This unit was about understanding the different ways of evaluating students' levels and progress in English languag.
Followings three different ways can be carried out to assess a student's language leve.
1) Tutorials : Evaluation can be done by reviewing the work done, asking students understanding and problems if there is any at the end of the lesso.
2) Evaluation by the students: Students cab be asked to evaluate their lesson through a list of questionnaire that represents the understanding of lesson among students and further it can be discussed for future lesson.
Mother language cab be used in this process if the students are too poor in English for this kind of discussio.
3) Tests: Different types of tests are carried out according to different stages in a course from start till end to evaluate the ability and progress of student.
#Placement tests helps teachers to recognize the ability of students to choose a right level of class for the.
#Progress tests should be taken periodically to gauge what language skills have achieved and what has been misse.
Most of teachers may not prefer these kind of tests as they believe students should attain exams naturally not by memorizing them by attaining frequentl.
#Diagnostic tests are more likely to same as placement test or sometimes more extensiv.
Teachers conduct these exams at the start of the course to identify the ability and knowledge of students relevant to a specific cours.
So, they can prepare the effective lesson and materials in the futur.
#Practice tests are normally formatted according to the structure of external exams which might be taken at the end of the cours.
Practice tests help students to get ready for external examination.
TOEFL, IELTS, TOFIC are some of the most popular and broadly certified external examinations for English language that students attend them to study abroad or live in the abroa.
The University of Cambridge made itself responsible for a broad range of English language level assessmen.
KEI, PFT, FCE, CAE, CPE are some different exams taken under the Cambridge assessment according to different level of difficultie.



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