Title: Unit 6: Tutoring Verb Tenses
Course: STEP DEV > Section: Tutoring Verb Tenses

OBJECTIVES

- Assess your knowledge of verb tenses.

- Identify the materials and preparation required to help a tutee with a verb tense.

- Recognize the three subsets (form, use and keywords) of  STEP 2: Theory.

INTRODUCTION

Tutoring verb tenses follows the same five steps as any other lesson.  However, verb tenses STEP 2 (Theory) is broken down into three subsets: form, use and keywords, as presented below.

During STEP 2A (form), the tutee discovers how to form the tense in the affirmative, negative, interrogative and short answer forms. The tutee learns when the tense is used during STEP 2B (use) and finally in STEP 2C (keywords), they become familiar with all the keywords that indicate when the target verb tense should be used.

It is easy for the tutor to help the tutee discover the form , use and keywords for each verb tense with the STEP 2:  Theory  activities.   Click on STEP 2 to see an example from the Step by Step Simple Present Tense lesson.

Important: Do this step as quickly as possible by focusing only on what the tutee is having difficulty with.

PRE-ACTIVITY

1.  What materials do you think you would need to help a tutee with a verb tense?

ACTIVITY

When giving a verb tense lesson or any other grammar or speaking lesson, you should have the following materials ready.

- Step by Step tutor annotated lesson

- Step by Step tutee lesson

- a notebook

- Useful Expressions sheet

   Simple Present Tense Lesson Example

   To get ready for a simple present lesson, the tutor has done the following:

   1.  Read over the simple present tense tutor annotated lesson and downloaded it on her phone.

   2.  Downloaded a copy of the simple present tense tutee lesson.

    3.  Prepared a place in her notebook for new vocabulary words and notes.

   4.  Placed a printed copy of the Useful Expressions sheet near the tutee.

   These materials will be used in Unit 7:  Tutoring the Simple Present Tense that will follow this unit.

POST-ACTIVITY

Click on the button and take the post-activity quiz.