Verb Tense Examples

Past perfect They had jogged in the park.

Past They jogged in the park.

Present perfect They have jogged in the park.

Present They jog in the park.

Future perfect They will have jogged in the park.

Future They will jog in the park.

Pre-assessment StoryTeacher reads the story aloud to the students or makes up a

different one using 6 verb tenses.

I woke (past) up late this morning. My alarm clock never went (past) off. I didn’t (past) realize that the electricity had gone (past perfect) out sometime during the night. I was so glad (past) that I had finished (past perfect) reading your stories before I went (past) to bed. The only thing I had forgotten (past perfect) to do was to write a story with six tenses. No problem, I thought (past) to myself. I will think (future) up a story while I drive (present) to work. It takes (present) me a good half hour to drive to school. I have made (present perfect) up a story in 30 minutes before, so I figured (past) that surely I will have come (future perfect) up with one by the time I got (past) to school. The weather was (past) terrible, the traffic was (past) heavy and half way to school, I realized (past) that I had forgotten (past perfect) my lunch. Now I have driven (present perfect) to school in half an hour before, but today it took (past) me 45 minutes. And I still have not made (present perfect) up a story that uses all 6 tenses! I just wonder (present) if I will have used (future perfect) all six tenses by the time I finish (present) telling you about my morning. Let’s all hope (present) I will use (future) them all soon!

Past perfect-

Uses had

Past action began and ended before

another past action started

Past-

Action started and completed in the

past

Present perfect-

Uses haveAction that

happened at an indefinite past time, or action

began in the past and is still

happening now

Present-

An action happening now, or

a constant or repeated action

Future perfect-

Uses will haveFuture action that will begin and end

before another action starts

Future-

Action that will happen in the

future

Nine desks are arranged into a Tic-Tac-Toe pattern. Students are divided into two teams and line up on opposite sides of the Tic-Tac-Toe desks. The first player on Team 1 is shown a verb and a tense. The player must say the verb form in the tense given and use the verb in a short sentence. If the answer is correct, the player chooses one of the 9 Tic-Tac-Toe desks to sit at and a player from Team 2 takes a turn with a new verb. If the answer is incorrect, the first player on Team 2 gets a chance to earn a seat for Team 2 by supplying the correct verb and example sentence. If the player is correct, he or she may choose a seat and the next player from Team 2 takes a turn with a new verb. Play continues until each student has had a turn. Keep track of how many Tic-Tac-Toes each team wins.

TENSE TIC-TAC-TOE

1) Swim- Present

2) Read- Past

3) Walk- Future

4) Look- Present perfect

5) See- Past

6) Speak- Present

7) Write- Past

8) Write- Past perfect

9) Play- Future perfect

10) Make- Past

11) Run- Future

12) Ride- Past perfect

13) Open- Present perfect

14) Send- Past

15) Ride- Past

16) Climb- Future perfect

17) Jump- Past perfect

18) Swim- Future

19) Sleep- Present

20) Sleep- Past

21) Wake- Present perfect

22) Ride- Past perfect

23) Write- Future perfect

24) Paint- Present

25) Draw- Past

26) Draw- Present perfect

27) Wake- Past

28) Eat- Future perfect

29) Find- Past perfect

30) Want- Future

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