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This unit provided an excellent review of the past tenses and how they are formed and used. Native English speakers use these automatically so one can appreciate how difficult it could be to teach these tenses (concepts) to new students, especially lower level students. A fun and creative way might be to create a ?time machine? representation in the classroom with past, present, and future signposts with time markings in between. One student could stand in the at the present signpost and describe an action that was done (past simple) or was being done (past continuous) in the past to another student standing at the present signpost. The past actions being described could be demonstrated by other students. The past perfect and past perfect continuous actions can also be demonstrated in this way too. In fact, all the tenses and their structures could be learned in this manner. This visual representation could also be done with clay or drawings (supplies permitting) to provide the students with another way to learn and reinforce their knowledge and understanding of the tenses. Of course, these learning ideas would be used more in the study phase rather than the activity stage as they are helping the student to learn the concept rather than using it.
