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

2. 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)
My aunt and uncle are running a financial planning business.
Bob walks to the grocery store every Friday.
My sister was struggling to build the snowman, so I helped her.
Shelby wrote a five page story for her English class.

3. Announcements & Agenda 2/22
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
note-taking on basic and progressive verb tenses
Paired activity: creating sentences using the progressive tense.

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

5. 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

6. 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
George________________( to plan/FT) nothing for New Year’s Eve because he never________(to have/PRS T) a date.
When the dog ___________ (to bark/Past T), we all jumped.
The helicopter ____________( to fly/Past T) the stadium.
The coach ___________(to speak/FT) Johnny about his performance during practice.
The rollercoaster ________(to be/PRS T) the fastest ride in the park.

7. 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.

8. The Four Principal Verb Parts
Present
Present Participle
Walk
Run
Walking
Running
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.

9. Past
Past Participle
Walked
Ran
Run
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

10. 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.

11. Present Progressive Forms
Instructions: conjugate the verb ‘to watch’ in the present progressive tense
Singular
Plural
I ____________
We __________
You ___________
He, she, or it ______________
They ____________

12. 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.

13. 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 ____________

14. 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.

15. Announcements & Agenda 2/18
1. bring interactive notebooks Monday
2. Make up work! Get it done!
3. Remaining presentations?
Agenda
Completing packet on progressive tenses: classwork grade.
Group activity on progressive tenses
Note-taking on perfect tenses

16. Future Progressive Form
8. 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.

17. Future Progressive Forms
Instructions: conjugate the verb ‘to hike’ in the future
progressive form
Singular
Plural
I __________________________
We ________________________
You ____________________________
You __________________________
He, she, it ____________________________
They _________________________

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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)

21. 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 _______________________

22. 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

23. Verb Forms: Past Perfect Tense
Instructions: conjugate the verb ‘to build’ in the past perfect tense

24. 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.

25. Verb Forms: Future Perfect Tense
Instructions: conjugate the word ‘to pay’ in future perfect tense.