Wednesday 19th April 2017 WALT: understand and use the present and past perfect.

The Past This is when an event has already happened. I walked across to buy some sweets from the shop. I shouted to my brother in the playground. I ran down the lane with the dog.

The Present This is when an event is actually happening. I am walking across to buy some sweets from the shop. I am shouting to my brother in the playground. I am running down the lane with the dog.

The Future This is when an event has not taken place yet. I will walk across to buy some sweets from the shop. I will shout to my brother in the playground. I will run down the lane with the dog.

Look at each of these sentences and decide what tense it has been written in. Past We went for a walk. Future George will rush into school today. Past City beat United 6-0 last week.

Forms of the past tense The simple past tells us something has started and finished in the past. They use a past participle verb. I ate two cakes. The present perfect suggests either that an action has been completed – ‘perfected’ – or that an action that started in the past now continues in the present I have eaten all the cakes and now I feel sick The past perfect is used to refer to something that occurred earlier than the time being considered, which is already in the past By the end of the party, I had eaten all the cakes and felt very sick.

Grammar Activity to do in your exercise books

Activity: Change these sentences from the simple past tense into present perfect tense.

Write a paragraph using the photograph Write a paragraph using the photograph. Use the simple past at least three times and present perfect at least three times.