Wednesday 19 th April 2017 WALT understand use

Wednesday 19 th April 2017 WALT: understand use the present and past perfect.

The Past This is when an event has already happened. I walked across to buy some sweets from the shop. I shouted to my brother in the playground. I ran down the lane with the dog.

The Present This is when an event is actually happening. I am walking across to buy some sweets from the shop. I am shouting to my brother in the playground. I am running down the lane with the dog.

The Future This is when an event has not taken place yet. I will walk across to buy some sweets from the shop. I will shout to my brother in the playground. I will run down the lane with the dog.

Look at each of these sentences and decide what tense it has been written in. We went for a walk. George will rush into school today. City beat United 6 -0 last week.

Forms of the past tense • The simple past tells us something has started and finished in the past. They use a past participle verb. • I ate two cakes. • The present perfect suggests either that an action has been completed – ‘perfected’ – or that an action that started in the past now continues in the present • I have eaten all the cakes and now I feel sick • The past perfect is used to refer to something that occurred earlier than the time being considered, which is already in the past • By the end of the party, I had eaten all the cakes and felt very sick.

Grammar Activity to do in your exercise books

Activity: Change these sentences from the simple past tense into present perfect tense.

Write a paragraph using the photograph. Use the simple past at least three times and present perfect at least three times.