Lesson video

Hi everyone, and welcome to the next lesson with me, Ms. Chu.

Hmm, I wonder whether you've noticed something different about me today.

Is it my hair? Have I had a haircut after lockdown? No, it is not my hair although I am desperate need of a haircut.

It's in fact this headset.

This nifty, cool headset that I've got.

And this is to make sure that my voice doesn't cut in and out of the lesson.

And I've noticed that sometimes it might do that so, if you can try and ignore it, so it doesn't distract you.

And then we can begin our lessons.

You need to now make sure that you've got your piece of paper, your pen or pencil, or book, something to write on.

Find a quiet space, and then we can begin our lesson on our simple past, present, and future tense.

Okay so in this lesson, you will need an exercise book or a piece of paper or something to write on.

A pen or pencil and your thinking heads.

Let's look at the agenda.

So, we're going to start off looking at tenses.

Then we're going to move on to verbs.

And then we're going to look more in detail at the two that I have on the screen, simple past, and simple present.

Just because they're a little bit trickier.

So let's look at tenses in general.

Let's start with past tense.

We use the past tense to talk about things that have happened.

There are two main ones; simple past and continuous past.

Here are two examples of it being used in sentences.

The first one is a simple past.

The witches met on the heath to discuss the prophecy of Macbeth.

The second one.

The witches were meeting to discuss the prophecy of Macbeth.

That is written in continuous past.

'Met' is in simple and 'were meeting' is in continuous past.

Present tense.

So we use present tense to talk about things that are happening right now.

Again, there are two main ones: simple present and continuous present.

Let's look at them in sentences.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot the death of King Duncan.

That's in simple present.

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are plotting the death of King Dunkin.

That's in continuous present.

The last one, future tense.

We use future tense to talk about things that will happen.

Again, the two main ones are: simple future and continuous future.

So in the first sentence, let's have a look at simple future.

Macbeth will kill Duncan while he is sleeping.

The second one Macbeth will be killing Dunkin while he is sleeping.

Let's see if you remember what the definitions are for each of the tenses.

So, we use this tense to talk about things that will happen.

What tense would that be? We use this tense to talk about things that have happened.

What tense is this? And we use this tense to talk about things that are happening now.

I want you to pause the video and have a go at matching the definitions to the tenses on the left.

You can use your finger to draw an imaginary line between the definition and the tenses, or if you'd like, you could write it down.

Pause the video and have a go now.

Brilliant.

So.

let's have a look.

We use past tense to talk about things that have happened, exactly.

And we use present tense to talk about things that are happening now.

And future tense when we're talking about things that will happen.

Well done if you got that.

Okay, verbs.

Verbs change when they are in the past, present or future.

And we looked at that in our sentences previously.

The ones that I'd underlined.

So for example, for verb 'to plot', if it was in past tense it would be 'plotted'.

Present tense, 'plot', and future tense, 'will plot'.

And we're talking about these tenses as simple past, simple present, and simple future, because that's what our lesson is about.

So, oops! Let's put them up.

So if we're talking about yesterday, that's in the past.

So yesterday, it's in the past.

I painted, helped, wanted, lived.

Today I, that's happening right now.

I paint, help, want, live.

Tomorrow, it's not happened yet.

It's going to happen.

I will paint, will help, will want, and will live.

Okay now it's your turn to pause the video.

To write down the verb in each of the sentences below.

I'm going to read them out to you first, and then you can pause the video and just write down the verb in each of the sentences.

So the first sentence is, Lady Macbeth read the letter from Macbeth.

What's the verb in that sentence? She convinced Macbeth that it was a good idea.

She will kill him in the middle of the night.

Sorry, he will kill him in the middle of the night.

Macbeth sees the ghost of Duncan.

The witches looked into the future.

So, pause the video and just write down the verb in each of the sentences.

Okay, answers.

Let's have a look at the answers.

So, for the first one, Lady Macbeth read the letter from Macbeth.

The verb is read.

Remember a the verb is a doing or a being word.

If you are it, or you do it, then the word is a verb.

So the doing word is read.

She convinced Macbeth that it was a good idea.

Convinced is the verb.

She wanted him to be King.

Wanted is a being word.

So that's the verb.

She will kill him in the middle of the night.

That's the verb, kill.

Macbeth sees the ghost Duncan.

The verb sees, and look, is the verb in the last sentence, the witches look into the future.

Okay so let's look at the simple past, more in depth.

There are many ways of talking about the past in English, but the two main ones I've already discussed are the simple past and the continuous past.

So let's look at the simple past in detail.

The simple past is formed in different ways for different types of verbs.

So there are regular verbs and irregular verbs.

Regular and irregular.

Do you want to have a go at saying that.

Regular.

Irregular, okay.

For regular verbs, there is a rule.

But irregular verbs just have to be learned.

You just have to remember them, okay? But if there is a rule that makes it easy for us to apply it, to learn it and apply it to different verbs.

So, to make the past tense of regular verbs, we can just add an 'ed' or a 'd' at the end of the word.

Let's have a look.

For example, love.

In past, simple past would become loved.

So you just pop on the -d.

Walk, would be walked, -ed.

Listen, would be listened, -ed.

And then the last one is a bit trickier.

If the word ends in a -y, then we take off the y and add 'ied'.

So, carry becomes carried.

Now, I wonder if you notice a pattern here.

When do we just pop on the 'd' and when do we add on the 'ed'? Have a look at the words that are on the screen now.

Have a think.

Yes, so when a word ends in an -e you just pop on the 'd'.

If it doesn't end in an -e, then you have to add the e and the d.

So, for verbs that are irregular, they change.

The verb changes in the past tense of irregular verbs.

So for example, go, you wouldn't say goed.

It would be went.

Have, would be had.

Make, would be made.

And there are many more, but you just have to remember them.

Simple present.

Okay, so again, as I've mentioned before, there are two main ones: simple present and continuous present.

We're going to only look at simple present in this lesson.

We use the simple present form of a verb when the action takes place now.

When the action takes place regularly.

Or if you are describing things that are generally true, like a fact.

Okay, so when 'he', 'she' or 'it' is doing the action, we've got to remember to change the verb okay.

So if you have a look, you add an 's', 'es' or again we would change the 'y' to 'ies'.

Let's see them in examples.

I trust Macbeth.

If it is 'we', the pronoun 'we' trust would be the same.

We trust Macbeth.

But what about if it is 'she' or 'he' or 'it'? Ah, let's look.

We've got to remember to add 's'.

'es' or change.

Okay, so she would, you'd have to pop on 's'.

She trusts Macbeth.

Let's have look in the second example.

I watch Duncan, we watch Duncan, he watches Duncan.

Last example.

I carry the crown, we carry the crown, he carries the crown.

So if we look back up at the top, it says, when 'he', 'she' or 'it' is doing the action, remember to add, that's when we change it to either pop on the 's' on the end, 'es' or change the 'y' to 'ies'.

Okay, now you're going to have a go.

In a moment you're going to pause the video and you're going to write down the verb in each of the sentences below.

So, Macbeth wears the crown.

What's the verb? They went to the witches on the Heath.

He had his dagger with him.

The branches of the trees bend in the wind.

She feels wracked with guilt.

Pause the video and write down the verb in each of the sentences.

Okay, the answers, let's have a look.

So wears is the verb.

Went is the verb.

Had, is the verb in the next one.

Bend, and feels.

Remember, a verb is a doing or a being word.

So feels, is a being word, okay? Okay, so well done.

We have finished.

We have come to the end of this lesson, and you have learned all about three types of tenses in this lesson.

Simple past, the simple present, and the simple future.

We've also looked at how verbs can change depending on whether they're regular or irregular.

And then we broke down the lesson into simple past and simple present.