Saturday 3 September 2011

When to teach/learn the list of Irregular Verbs?


Most EFL teachers agree that it’s useless to teach the list of irregular verbs to beginner students, since they don’t know the simple past tense yet, particularly the present perfect tense. However, I’ve just heard someone saying that the list of irregular verbs should be the vocabulary students need from the very beginning in order to understand what the teacher says. According to him, the first language must be forbidden, even for teachers who deal with beginners. What do you reckon?

5 comments:

  1. I THINK THAT IS ESSENCIAL TO LEARNING ENGLISH THE TEACHING OF THOSE VERBS, OR REGULAR TO, BECAUSE WHEN STUDENT INCREMENTED THEIR LANGUAGE MUST LEARN MORE ATIONS OR VERBS.
    IF SOME TEACHER SAY THAT THE TEACHING OF IT IS WRONG I THINK THAT ITS INCORRECT, WHEN WE ARE CHILDREN AND WE ARE LEARNING SPANISH WE STARTED WITH SOME WORDS EVEN IF WE DONT KNOW THE SIGNIFICATE BUT WE KNOW IT FOR OBLIGATION.
    WE HAVE TO INCREASE OUR VOCABULARY.

    GISELLE DETKEN

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  2. Your comment is really interesting Giselle! Thanks!

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  3. I think it's a good teacher who understands his students and more than that is a friend I wish you all the luck in the world to continue to fulfill all its objectives ... luck

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