This presentation walks you through the definition of past, present and future tense and examples of how these are written within a sentence. The presentation will also discuss the base word and how this word changes, by either adding a word or adding an inflectional ending when changing tense. It also provides opportunities for students to practise the skill of changing a word to create a different tense.
Describe how texts across the curriculum use different language features and structures relevant to their purpose
Understand past, present and future tenses and their impact on meaning in a sentence
Understand that verbs are anchored in time through tense
Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences)
Identifies and compares different kinds of texts when reading and viewing and shows an understanding of purpose, audience and subject matter
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose, audience and context, including tense and types of sentences
Understand that verbs represent different processes (doing, thinking, saying, and relating) and that these processes are anchored in time through tense