I recommend this book to any EFL teacher. Using this book it is suddenly easy to prepare lessons where new tenses are introduced. The examples and uses make preparation a piece of cake; the section on difficulties helps you to anticipate potential problems.

I would say this is an essential EFL book.


Teaching tenses without tensing up...   October 19, 2002
 108 out of 108 found this review helpful

This book is excellent. It was the main thing that helped me get through my TEFL course. It explained tenses in a way which was so straight forward, I had no trouble understanding them myself! It also provided excellent suggestions on practical exercises to use with your students. During my course, when it fell to me to teach the second conditional, those exercises proved priceless. All new EFL teachers should have one.


A really good book for TEFL Teachers   September 18, 1999
 51 out of 51 found this review helpful

If only all TEFL books were written as well as this, we would have an easier life. This book is particularly useful for native speakers (Learning English is another) in that it gives clear guidance on the seemingly chaotic rules that the English tense system follows.

For each tense, we are provided with the form and function of the tense, suggested contexts with which to introduce it, and a list of problems that foreign students often have, and means of solving them. The back of the book comprises a large set of photocopiable drawings to elicit tenses from students.

This is the one TEFL book I would not be without.