ATTENTION : Filipino Teachers

    What are the differences between the following sentences ?

A)  I will cook rice  by  12  noon.

B)  I will have cooked  rice  at  12  noon.

    For ordinary  Filipino  students there's no  difference. They think  'Magluluto  ng  kanin (pagsapit)  ng alas dose ng tanghali,'   assuming  that those sentences  (in A and B)  have  the same meaning, except  B  has  "have"   and   "-ed "  in cook.
   When  asked  about those  sentences, a typical Filipino  student  or teacher will answer  according to the presence and/or absence  of certain word (i.e.  have)  and/or  certain letters (i.e. -ed in cooked)  and  not  according  on the meaning  of the  sentence.
  Astonishingly,  they  might even  know  that those  sentences are in the future and perfect future tenses, respectively, without  understanding what   perfect  future  really  means.
  A worst  encounter  was when  a private college graduated PT  insisted to me that  the  "-ed "   in   sentence  B   should  be uncalled for (or wrong)  because  of the  presence  of  " will ",  even though I   explained  to her  that  verbs followed with  had, have, or had  should  be in the past (i.e. past participial form).
   Have  form  before  a verb makes a sentence  in the  perfect tense;  will before  a verb  makes  it in  the future tense.  Therefore, will +  have form + past participle  makes  a sentence  in the   perfect future  tense.
    When I've read from  an English  textbook  "will have benefited "   my stand was now affirmed once more, and yet  she did not concede, and she still asserts  that  " -ed "  in  ' will have cooked '   must   be wrong.
    I  am  sad  about this.

    As early as  year 2001  I've  noticed  that   many  of those  taking teaching profession  and other courses  do not  really  understand  the perfect  tenses.
    The best  way  to determine  whether  Filipino students  or teachers  understand  those  sentences (in A  and B), ask  them  to translate  or explain those sentences in Filipino (Tagalog).

    When  Dr.  Juanita B. Carlos  (Ph D.), then superintended  to all  principals and teachers in  Muntinlupa, Taguig and Pateros, asked  us to make a project about  Measurement &  Evaluation, I'd preferred  to tackle the ' Have Forms '   (1)  to learn  them  more,  (2)  to verify  my assumption  (that  many teachers  here do not really understand  past perfect, present perfect, and future perfect tenses),  (3)  to learn how to really understand or know those tenses (and to teach them to students), and (4)  to have an estimate  of those understand and do not understand have forms.

   It took a long period of time  before  I've decided to discus this problem in public.
   Although devastating, but no one will pay more attention to this problem  until  it hurts  him or  her.

Solution

English (A)
    I will cook rice by  12  noon.
Filipino
   *Magluluto ako ng kanin (simula)  pagsapit ng alas dose ng tanghali.
   *Magsisimula akong magluto  ng kanin sa katanghaliang tapat.

English (B)
    I will  have cooked  rice at  12  noon.
Filipino
    *Maluluto na ang kanin ( na aking niluluto) mamayang alas dose ng tanghali.
    *Makaluluto na ako ng kanin pagsapit  ng katanghalian tapat.

   In sentence  A, the start of  cooking will be  at  12  noon,  whereas  in sentence B   the  cooking is already started  sometime before 12  noon  and  will be  completed  at  12 noon.


Sincerely,
ALLAN   POE   BONA   REDONA
June 09, 2012  6:01 PM


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