Sentences in the progressive present, past and future tense

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Sentences in the simple present, past and future tense

Sentences in the perfect present, past and future tense

In this unit, pupils deepen their understanding of the simple, progressive and perfect tense forms by writing sentences in the past, present and future of them. In 'Three tense forms and modal verbs', pupils will learn to use modality whilst maintaining tense.   

In 'Tense forms', pupils learnt for the first time the three tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect. In this unit, pupils will deepen their understanding by writing sentences in the past, present and future of the different tense forms. 

In this unit, pupils review formal conventions around present, past and future simple and progressive tense forms, as well as the perfect present tense. They review doing, being and having verbs, all of which can act as main verbs in clauses, as well as knowledge about main and auxiliary verbs.

Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect consolidation

Which of the following are in a progressive tense?

Match the progressive sentence to its tense.

What is the auxiliary verb in this progressive sentence? 'Aisha was sitting down when I entered'.

Which word shows that this sentence took place in the past? 'Andeep and Alex were shivering with cold'. 

Aisha's cousin was driving to pick us up from the park.

Aisha's cousin will be picking us up from the park.

Aisha's cousin is coming to collect us from the park.

Which of these sentences is in the progressive future tense?

As the waves are crashing on the shore, we are lying on the sand. 

As the waves were crashing on the shore, we were lying on the sand. 

As the waves are crashing on the shore, we will be lying on the sand. 

Which sentence shows the progressive past tense version of this simple past tense sentence? 'As the waves crashed on the shore, we lay on the sand'. 

Which of these types of word could be a verb?

to show how many people are doing an action

To find the tense of a sentence, what kind of word must we look at?

In this sentence, what kind of word is 'plays'? 'Jun plays on the football team'.

Match each sentence to the simple tense it uses.

My birthday, which I will celebrate well, will soon arrive.

I love this song, but Jacob hates it with a passion.

Starter Quiz

Which of these types of word could be a verb?