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Entries Tagged as 'Present perfect continuous'

Tense review activity (a lesson plan)

February 19th, 2009 · 11 Comments

Sometimes students tell me that they would like to do a revision lesson. I ask them what they would like to revise and they say, “Verbs, of course”. Then I say, “What aspect of verbs would you like to revise?” and they reply, “Oh, you know - the past, the present, the future, and things […]

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Tags: Can and could · Grammar · Lesson plans · Past simple · Present continuous · Present perfect · Present perfect continuous · Present simple · Student drawings

Using YouTube as a musical corpus

April 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

In my last posting I gave alist of 10 songs containing either ‘going to’ or gonna or both. In this posting, I am going to show you howI found them.
In the old days, if you had wanted to find 10 songs each containing a piece of target language, you would have had to do one […]

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Tags: 'Used to' · Ain't · Grammar · Learner-friendly corpora · Present perfect continuous · Songs · Using YouTube