Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around the simple present and simple past tense learnt in the Year 1 grammar unit 'Simple sentences'. Critical learning in this unit includes conventions around forming the present, past and future tenses of both simple and progressive forms. Pupils learn that main verbs can be doing, being or having verbs and are introduced to the perfect present tense. This unit prepares pupils for reviewing their learning in the Year 4 grammar unit 'Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect consolidation'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Sentences can be formed in the present, past or future tense.
- Tense helps us understand the time frame of the sentence.
- There are different tenses and ways of forming verbs in English.
- A verb is a doing or a being word.
- The verb carries the tense of a sentence.
- A main clause is a group of words that contains a verb and makes complete sense.
- Some tenses and ways of forming verbs are more frequent in reading than others.
- Some tenses and ways of forming verbs are more frequent in everyday speaking than others.
- A noun does the verb of a sentence, including if the verb is a being verb.
- Verbs exist in all languages.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around the simple present and simple past tense learnt in the Year 1 grammar unit 'Simple sentences'. Critical learning in this unit includes conventions around forming the present, past and future tenses of both simple and progressive forms. Pupils learn that main verbs can be doing, being or having verbs and are introduced to the perfect present tense. This unit prepares pupils for reviewing their learning in the Year 4 grammar unit 'Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect consolidation'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Sentences can be formed in the present, past or future tense.
- Tense helps us understand the time frame of the sentence.
- There are different tenses and ways of forming verbs in English.
- A verb is a doing or a being word.
- The verb carries the tense of a sentence.
- A main clause is a group of words that contains a verb and makes complete sense.
- Some tenses and ways of forming verbs are more frequent in reading than others.
- Some tenses and ways of forming verbs are more frequent in everyday speaking than others.
- A noun does the verb of a sentence, including if the verb is a being verb.
- Verbs exist in all languages.
Grammar
Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect
In this unit, pupils learn formal conventions around simple and progressive tense forms in the present, past and future tenses. They learn about main and auxiliary verbs, including that main verbs can be having, as well as doing or being verbs. Pupils also learn about the perfect present tense.
5 lessons in unit
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