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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

2. In the back of your exercise book...
Grammar Starter: Tenses
Definition: A tense is a category that shows when something takes place. The main tenses are past, present and future.
Example:
PAST - He ate the cake.
PRESENT - He’s eating the cake.
FUTURE - He will eat the cake.
Ask for pupils’ definition before showing the correct one.
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

3. Can you think of anymore irregular verbs?
Tenses
In order to write in the correct tense you need to use the correct form of the verb. Not all the verbs in the English language are regular, meaning there is no rule to follow, so you just need to learn them.
Past
Present
Future
To be I We
To write
To go
Can you think of anymore irregular verbs?
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

4. Task time: now find it!
Today I feel upset because the book I was desperate to read was not in the shop so I could not buy it. I hoped to find it on Amazon but they did not have it either so I will have to keep looking! Let’s hope it is in the shop tomorrow when I go to Nottingham. I am reading another book now while I wait!
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

5. Task time: now find it!
Today I feel upset because the book I was desperate to read was not in the shop so I could not buy it. I hoped to find it on Amazon but they did not have it either so I will have to keep looking! Let’s hope it is in the shop tomorrow when I go to Nottingham. I am reading another book now while I wait!
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?

6. Task time: create your own
Write five sentences in the past tense about an alien spaceship which landed on Earth. Now write five sentences in the present tense about what the aliens find now they have landed on Earth. Finally, write five sentences in the future tense about what the aliens plan to do next week, now they are on Earth.
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Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition?
Can I describe the grammar feature using the correct definition and give my own examples?
Can I describe the grammar feature and give my own examples as well as identifying it in in a range of texts?