Teaching Tenses

CANE Contributing Editor
March 26, 2025

In today’s feature post, regular blog contributor Ruth Breindel shares two resources for helping students understand tenses.

Teaching tenses and their meaning is a difficult task. English is so sloppy with tenses that most students don’t know what a future perfect is (I have resorted to bringing in examples!). I have so many ways of teaching this that I will give them in several blogs.

This first set has a powerpoint and a movie. The powerpoint is humorous and shows how the various tenses can be placed on a Christmas tree. The movie includes music and a centaur – what’s not to like?

Ruth Breindel taught Latin, Greek, Linguistics and Mythology at Moses Brown School for 30 years.

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