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What our Progressive Verb Tenses lesson plan includes
Lesson Objectives and Overview: Progressive Verb Tenses expounds on this specific verb tense. It teaches students how to use this tense in present, past, and future forms. It discusses each progressive tense and provides examples to illustrate the concepts. By the end, students will easily be able to recognize and form sentences with this tense.
There are two pages of content in this lesson. First, the lesson will remind students what a verb is and helping verbs are. It then goes on to describe the three main progressive verb tenses that people use to convey continuous actions. It describes that this tense relates to things that were, are, or will be happening.
A chart displays the three tenses and provides a few examples for each. The future progressive adds that there must be a helping verb to correctly form the tense. The lesson then prompts students to see if they can tell the difference between each of the tenses they just learned about. You may want to add more examples to further explain them if your students need the extra help.
CONDUCT A CONVERSATION ACTIVITY
You will divide students into groups for the activity portion of the lesson. Students will work with their groups to follow the step-by-step instructions on the worksheet. They will conduct conversations using all three tenses, past, present, and future. Then they will read a conversation and try to connect each new sentence to the previous one. Finally, they will use the charts on the worksheet to keep track of which tenses each group member has to use.
PROGRESSIVE VERB TENSES PRACTICE WORKSHEET
There are three parts to the practice worksheet. First, students will mark statements as either present (PR), past (PA), or future (F) progressive tense. They will underline the action and helping verbs in each statement. Second, there are 10 statements with blanks. The action words they will use are at the beginning of the sentences. They will alter the action verb to match the right tense for that sentence. Finally, they will write a sentence that illustrates each tense.
CHANGING VERBS HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
The homework assignment is also divided into three parts. For the first part, students will circle the proper tense that correlates to the sentence they read. There are three total. Next, they will correctly write a sentence using the prompt at the beginning of a statement. There are nine statements in this section. Last, they will change sentences from one tense to another tense using the direction at the end of the sentences. There are three sentences for this part.
