Understanding fast speech
UNDERSTANDING FAST (REAL) ENGLISH If you join a video game with native English speakers, one of the first things you will likely notice is how fast they speak. They may slow down for you, but not when they are talking with each other. If you are very good at the game you are playing –...
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I (Terry) taught English for 50 years. Very early on (about the time when the above photo was taken) I was struck by the fact that many students study English for ten or more years, but never learn it well enough to actually use it. My main interest, then, became to help them finish the...
The most popular video games can be great English-language-learning resources
The most popular video games can be great English-language-learning resources Graphics by Denis Samovol Terry Fredrickson December 19, 2018 A common perception of video gaming among non-gamers is that at best it is a harmless distraction and at its worst, it’s an addictive time-wasting impediment to getting ahead in life. While there certainly are dangers...
Our Targated Audience
OUR TARGATED AUDIENCE We are especially interested in those gamers who would like to be able to join in multiplayer games with English speakers. Many of them have never thought of doing this and, hopefully, we can motivate them to give it a try. If the gamers are skilled in a particular game, they can...
You can learn a lot of English for watching video games. You can learn even more by joining multiplayer games with English speakers. You can do this even if your English is far from perfect, but it is much better if your grammar is as correct as possible.
Grammar for Gamers will help you. We will focus only on the grammar that is most useful for video games. This will help you better understand what your teammates are saying and it should help your teammates better understand you as well.
Since you are gamers, we know you like to have fun. Therefore, we will try to make the subject of grammar as fun as possible and as easy to understand as possible. We will also use many examples from video games.
Topics : These are the topics covered in Grammar for Gamers: Introduction, Nouns 1, Nouns 2,Nouns 3, Verbs & verb tenses 1, Verbs & verb tenses 2, Verb forms, The Progressive, Present Perfect, Future, Modals, Active-Passive, Prepositions, Adjectives, Phrasal Verbs, Adverbs, Conditionals, Other Resources
Other online references you might want to use:
The Present Perfect: In-game Examples
How do English speakers actually use the present perfect? Let’s start with some real-world examples from video gamers.
Talking about the future
The two most common ways video gamers use to talk about the future are “going to + verb” and “will”. We look at both in this video which includes video clips from DayZ and Fortnite. Keep the examples in mind when you talk about the future whether in a video game or in a conversation with English speakers.
The Future: In-game Examples
Video gamers are constantly thinking about what they are going to next, so they talk about the near future a lot. Here are many examples of how they do it, all taken from popular multiplayer video games.
Changing Tenses: In-game Examples
In your English classes, you probably learned verb tenses one at a time. In real life, however, we change tenses often, even every sentence or two. Here are some great examples of REAL ENGLISH tense shifts from a variety of popular video games!
Questions and Answers: In-game examples
Real questions and real answers – lots of them, taken from some of your favorite multiplayer video games. You’ll find the skill of asking and answering is a lot more interesting and fun than what you get in most English classes.