I Sat Down To Write This Post And Found That a Surprising Thing Had Happened...

by Jenny Hartland

“I sat down to write this post and found that a surprising thing had happened….”

One of the big challenges of learning English as an additional language is mastering the different tenses. Many of our learners receiving EAL tuition discover that many more tenses occur in English than in their native language. 

Did you notice the different tenses in the bold sentence at the top of this post?

Our EAL tutors particularly enjoy explaining the past perfect - a tense which helps to build awareness of a time sequence of actions or events in the past, making it a key tool in story writing. Through a series of ‘starting point’ activities, our learners grow in confidence as they gain the skill of switching between the English past tenses. 

So … at what point in time will you enter the story?

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