Verb Usage: tensesThe following PowerPoint contains bell-ringers, announcements, notes and class activities (class work grades) for the unit on verb usage

Bell-ringer: identifying verb tenses 2/18• Instructions: copy the following sentences and underline the

verb/verb phrase. Identify if the verb tense is basic (present, past or future) or progressive (present progressive, past progressive, or future progressive)

1. My aunt and uncle are running a financial planning business.

2. Bob walks to the grocery store every Friday.

3. My sister was struggling to build the snowman, so I helped her.

4. Shelby wrote a five page story for her English class.

Announcements & Agenda 2/22• Announcements

• 1. request to re-test forms for the dramatic techniques test need to be turned in tomorrow. (you will get your test back at the end of class)

• If you have been absent, get your make up work done! Those grades exist as zeroes until the work has been completed.

• Agenda

1. note-taking on basic and progressive verb tenses

2. Paired activity: creating sentences using the progressive tense.

• Why is it important to have a strong command of the English language?

Verb Tenses: the basic tense• A tense is a form of a verb that shows the time of an

action or condition.

• In other words, a tense tells us when things happen.

• Fill in the chart of simple tenses below and conjugate the verb to bring

Basic Verb Tenses Example

Present- an event that is happening now (to bring)

Past- an event that already happened

Future- an event that has yet to happen

Practice with Basic Verb Tenses• Complete the following sentences and supply the correct tense of

the verb provided.

• Key : PRS T: Present tense Past T: Past tense FT: Future tense

1. George________________( to plan/FT) nothing for New Year’s Eve because he never________(to have/PRS T) a date.

2. When the dog ___________ (to bark/Past T), we all jumped.

3. The helicopter ____________( to fly/Past T) the stadium.

4. The coach ___________(to speak/FT) Johnny about his performance during practice.

5. The rollercoaster ________(to be/PRS T) the fastest ride in the park.

The Four Principal Parts of Verbs• Tenses are formed from principal parts and helping

verbs.

• A verb has four principal parts: the present, the present participle, the past, and the past participle.

The Four Principal Verb Parts

Present Present Participle

WalkRun

WalkingRunning

To form present tense:Add –s or –es when subject is he, she, it or a singular noun

Used with helping verbs to form all progressive tenses

Example: he runs, she bathes, Paul walks.

Example: is walking, was walking, will be walking.

To form future tense:Add the helping verb ‘will’

Example: He will run, she will bathe.

Past Past Participle

WalkedRan

WalkedRun

To form the past tense Used with helping verbs to form all three perfect tenses

Example: He walked, Paul ran Example: he has walked, Paul had run

Verb tenses: the progressive tense

• Progressive tense shows actions or a state of being in progress.

• Present Progressive• The present progressive form of a verb expresses action or a

condition that is continuing in the present.

• Althea is finishing her song.

• The present progressive form consists of the helping verb am, are, or is and the present participle of the main verb.

Present Progressive Forms

• Instructions: conjugate the verb ‘to watch’ in the present progressive tense

Singular Plural

I ____________ We __________

You ___________ You ___________

He, she, or it ______________

They ____________

Past Progressive Form

• The past progressive form of a verb expresses action or a condition that was continuing at some time in the past.

• Example: We were watching a scary show.

• The past progressive form consists of the helping verb was or were and the present participle.

Past Progressive Forms• Instructions: conjugate the verb ‘to speak’ in the past

progressive tense

Singular Plural

I _______________ We _____________

You ____________ You were working

He, she, or it __________________

They ____________

Bell-ringer activity: review of verb tenses 2/18• Instructions: copy the following sentences and change the

basic tense to progressive tense. Use context clues in the sentence to infer if it should be in the present progressive, past progressive or future progressive.

1. Sean plays computer games.

2. The horses trotted around the track.

3. This machine worked yesterday.

4. Serena hurried to her dance class.

5. Harry and Sally take piano lessons.

Announcements & Agenda 2/18• Announcements

• 1. bring interactive notebooks Monday

• 2. Make up work! Get it done!

• 3. Remaining presentations?

Agenda

1. Completing packet on progressive tenses: classwork grade.

2. Group activity on progressive tenses

3. Note-taking on perfect tenses

Future Progressive Form8. The FUTURE PROGRESSIVE TENSE indicates continuing action, something that will be happening, going on, at some point in the future.

• This tense is formed with "will" plus "be," plus the present participle of the verb (with an -ing ending)

• Example:

• I will be running in next year's Boston Marathon.

• Our campaign plans suggest that the President will be winning the southern vote by November.

Future Progressive Forms

Singular Plural

I __________________________

We ________________________

You ____________________________

You __________________________

He, she, it ____________________________

They _________________________

Instructions: conjugate the verb ‘to hike’ in the future progressive form

Practice Exercises: activity one

• With your assigned partner, read through the passage and underline any simple or progressive verbs with the colored pencils as directed on the worksheet.

Practice Exercise: activity two

• write an example of • three basic tenses

• three progressive tenses on strips of poster board paper

• present them to the class explaining why they are in either the basic or progressive tense.

Present Perfect Tense (the tricky stuff..)

• perfect means complete

• Present perfect tense expresses action

• completed at the present time• Or

• begun in the past and continuing into the present.

• This tense uses the helping verbs has and have and the past participle of the verb.

• Examples:

• He has written a letter to his uncle. (completed action)• The Waltons have lived here for seven years. (continuing)

Verb Forms: Present Perfect Tense

• Instructions: conjugate the verb ‘to bake’ in the present perfect tense

Singular Plural

I _____________________________ We _____________________________

You ______________________________

You ______________________

He, she it ______________________

They _______________________

Past Perfect Tense

• Past perfect tense expresses action completed before certain time in the past.

• It uses the helping verb had and the past participle of the verb.

• Example: She had written the letter before I saw her

Verb Forms: Past Perfect Tense• Instructions: conjugate the verb ‘to build’ in the past

perfect tense

Future Perfect Tense

• Future perfect tense expresses action which will be completed before a certain time in the future.

• It uses the helping verbs will have or shall have and the past participle of the verb.

• Example: He will have finished the paper before next Friday.

Verb Forms: Future Perfect Tense• Instructions: conjugate the word ‘to pay’ in

future perfect tense.