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In this unit, we learned about the past tenses of verbs, which includes past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous. This unit gave a description of each tense, along with common mistakes/errors students make for each of these tenses and a few different ideas for practicing their forms and usages during the activate stage of the lesson. From this unit, I feel that I have a better understanding of how challenging it can be for students to learn and use these past tenses. During the test, I struggled to determine which usage went with what tense, and thinking of ways to explain and practice the differences in their forms and usages was also difficult. However, this taught me that I need to be prepared to explain to students why we use one verb tense in certain ways but not in others, and I also need to think of how students can practice with these tenses, as well as utilizing the various activate ideas provided in this unit.
