Present and past tense

English

Present tense

Past tense

Statements and questions

Questions and commands

Joining using 'and'

Co-ordination with 'and'

In this unit, pupils learn to build grammatically accurate simple sentences with the correct word class, tense and punctuation. In 'Compound sentences', pupils will learn to join two simple sentences to build a compound sentence. 

In 'Word class', pupils learnt to identify and use the four main word classes. In this unit, pupils will learn to build grammatically accurate simple sentences with the correct word class, tense and punctuation.

In this unit, pupils learn to identify the simple present and past tenses by focusing on the verbs in sentences. They learn that a simple sentence is a complete sentence about one idea and can be a statement, question or command. They learn that two related ideas can be joined by the word 'and'.

Simple sentences

Tick the correct past tense form of the verb 'play':

Fill in the gap: The __________ carries the tense of a sentence.

Change the verb so that this sentence is in the present tense: I walked to the shops.

Change the verb so that this sentence is in the past tense: Sam counts the apples.

Match the following keywords with the correct example:

Identify the verb in this sentence: We listen to music.

How many ideas are there in a simple sentence?

Starter Quiz

Identify the two common nouns: