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Objetivos de Otoño

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Proponte usar tu tiempo este otoño, desde el comfort de tu casa o desde la oficina, conecta con estudiantes de todo el mundo en nuestras aulas virtuales, donde ofrecemos un amplio abanico de opciones a la hora de escoger un curso. Visita nuestra pagina web:

 

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Tenses - Intermediate level - General English

Tenses - Intermediate level - General English

Do you need help with your tenses? please see our notes below:

Notes for Virtual English Teacher Online´s General English students at Intermediate level, 

groups I1 & I2, below you will find a breakdown of the past and present tenses:  

Past simple (or simple past) 

A past verb form that has no auxiliary verb in the affirmative.

Examples: I stopped; You heard; We knew. 

Past progressive (or continuous) 

A verb form made with was/were + ...ing.

Examples: I was going; They were stopping.

Past perfect 

A verb form made with had + past participle. 

Examples: I had forgotten; The children had arrived; 

She had been working; It had been raining.  

The first two examples are simple past perfect; the last two (with had been + ...ing)
are past perfect progressive (or continuous).

Present simple (or simple present)

A present verb form that has no auxiliary verb in the affirmative. 

Examples: He goes there often; I know; I like chocolate.

Present progressive (or continuous)

A verb form made with am/are/is + ...ing. 

Examples: I am going; she is staying for two weeks.

Present perfect 

A verb form made with have/has + past participle*

Examples: I have forgotten; The children have arrived; 

I´ve been working all day; It has been raining. 

The first two examples are simple present perfect; the last two (with have been +...ing)
are present perfect progressive (or continuous).

*Past participle
A verb form like broken, gone, stopped, which can be used to form perfect tenses and passives**, or as an adjective. (the meaning is not necessarily past, in spite of the name).

**Passive
A passive verb form is made with be + past participle. Examples: is broken; was told, will be helped (but not breaks, told, will help, which are active verb forms). The subject of a passive verb form is usually the person or thing that is affected by the action of the verb. Compare:
They sent Lucas to prison for five years (active) & Lucas was sent to prison for five years (passive).


Future forms will follow at a later date. If you would like to join in our group lessons and practice your English online, check out our webpage, we have many course options to choose from:

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How we set up online

How we set up online

We were approached recently by a fellow teacher looking to venture online, asking for advice and what our biggest challenges have been in the set up of our online business. It´s very nice to meet fellow teachers and to be able to give each other advice. It´s a great job. Delivering classes online and the convenience of working from home is wonderful, especially when it´s cold outside; the kettle is never far away, remember it´s just as convenient for your students, there are many more pros than cons that have come of our student survey. 

In answer to our fellow teacher, our biggest challenge has been the SEOs of our webpage, we tried to do it all ourselves, which was fun but quite challenging at times, we created the webpages ourselves through GoDaddy, we have one in English and the other in Spanish, our links are below, please take a look. They were very simple to do, however our SEOs overcame our capabilities, so we were unsearchable! if you happened to have been looking on google for an English teacher online, you would not have found us, so this has to be our biggest drawback, but definitely not one to stop us, as there is a solution to almost every problem, we just needed to find it! This is however an ongoing battle today. Although there is no shortage of students as English is very much in demand, it´s possible to create a client base through other means.

We have found students through local advert webpages, (in Spain: milanuncios has been our most successful)  the best and most guaranteed method is word of mouth from previous face to face and online students; friends and family recommendations; business cards and flyers. As far as social network goes we have a Facebook page, a Google+ account; Twitter; YouTube; two blogs, Tumbler and Blogger, a Pinterest account will follow shortly and we are always open to new avenues that pop-up constantly in this fast-paced online world. 

Finding our classroom platform was quite something too! we had a huge list of possible platforms that were being crossed off for various reasons (be it: connection; screen share options; online blackboard; video and audio share, there were many things to look into that some had and others didn’t), we finally chose Zoom.us and highly recommend them. 

We are very pleased to hear that other teachers are looking into the online business, and would recommend that they go ahead. There are many blogs out there which have really good information, that have helped us many a time, where you will see that it really is possible. If there is anything we can do for you, please get in touch; we would be more than happy to help out.

All the best,

Virtual English Teacher Online.

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