Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of the simple, progressive and perfect present tenses and modal verbs from the Year 5 grammar unit, 'Three tense forms and modal verbs'. The new learning in this unit is how to form the perfect past and perfect future tenses. Pupils also build their knowledge of subjects and objects by learning the active and passive voice. This unit prepares pupils for further English language learning at KS3 level by giving them opportunities to directly apply the convention of the passive voice to writing for a range of purposes, including journalistic writing.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Sentences can be formed in the present, past or future tense in the simple, progressive or perfect form.
- 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.
- Simple, progressive and perfect forms have different grammatical rules.
- Simple, progressive and perfect forms tell the reader different contexts of the action.
- Tense is maintained throughout a piece of writing so that the time frame is clear for the reader.
- Verbs exist in all languages.
- Tense can be switched within a piece of narrative writing to perceive the action from the third and first person viewpoints.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of the simple, progressive and perfect present tenses and modal verbs from the Year 5 grammar unit, 'Three tense forms and modal verbs'. The new learning in this unit is how to form the perfect past and perfect future tenses. Pupils also build their knowledge of subjects and objects by learning the active and passive voice. This unit prepares pupils for further English language learning at KS3 level by giving them opportunities to directly apply the convention of the passive voice to writing for a range of purposes, including journalistic writing.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Sentences can be formed in the present, past or future tense in the simple, progressive or perfect form.
- 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.
- Simple, progressive and perfect forms have different grammatical rules.
- Simple, progressive and perfect forms tell the reader different contexts of the action.
- Tense is maintained throughout a piece of writing so that the time frame is clear for the reader.
- Verbs exist in all languages.
- Tense can be switched within a piece of narrative writing to perceive the action from the third and first person viewpoints.
Grammar
Three tense forms, modality, active voice and passive voice
In this unit, pupils review the simple, progressive and perfect present tenses as well as modal verbs for use in persuasive writing and speech sentences. They learn the rules for the perfect past and future tenses for the first time as well as learning about the active and passive voice.
4 lessons in unit
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