Fatimah Al-Quraishi

  Communicative Language Teaching  What is CLT? The communicative approach in language teaching starts from a theory of language as communication. The goal of language teaching is to develop what Hymes (1972) referred to as "communicative competence." Hymes coined this term in order to contrast a communica­tive view of language and Chomsky's theory of competence.   Chomsky held that linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener in a completely homogeneous speech community, who knows its language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions as mem­ory limitation, distractions, shifts of attention and interest, and errors (random or characteristic) in applying his knowledge of the language in actual performance.   The Communicative Approach is based on the idea that learning a language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning. In the Communicative Approach, the main objective is to pres...

Past Simple Tense من الماضي البسيط ز   Past Simple Tense  is the tense that we use to talk about completed action in a time before now. زمن الماضي البسيط هو الزمن الذي يستخدم للحديث عن الاحداث التي وقعت وأنتهت في الماضي.   The use of Present Simple Tense  استخدام المضارع البسيط We use past simple tense to talk about the time of the action that can be in the recent past or the distant past and action duration is not important.   يستخدم الزمن الماضي البسيط للحديث عن الفعل الذي حدث في الزمن الماضي سواء كان قريب أم بعيد ولايهم مدة الفعل. مثل: My uncle died last year. He lived in Baghdad in 1975. We crossed the Channel yesterday.    Sentence Form with Main Verb صيغة الجملة مع الفعل الرئيسي   Affirmative Form ( صيغة الإثبات ) الجمع و المفرد Subject (plural/ Singular) +  verb + ed  + etc. They  played  football. She cooked the dinner.   ...