Introduction
Once upon a time, There was a Princess named Lila. She was a beautiful princess but she has a very big problem. She looks smart but she is having a hard time constructing her sentences in the correct verb tense. Will you help Princess Lila learn more about using the correct verb tenses? Will you able to help Princess Lila realize value why we should learn these verb tenses? We all know that even scholars themselves are having a hard time perfecting their grammar, expecially their tenses. Even good speakers make simple mistakes. These writers and speakers sometimes have trouble choosing the correct form of a verb. Like Princess Lila, let us learn more and discover new ways to practice and to enhance our writing as well as our speaking skills with the use of the correct tenses and verb forms. Let us proceed to our course Grammar: Verb Tenses!
Task
Your tasks will be first, to define what a verb is, and be able to identify it upon seeing a sentence. The students should also be able to use the verbs in their different forms correctly by filling up the blanks in the exercises attached. In the second exercise/activity that is attached, they should be able to identify the verb tenses used in each sentence. And lastly, they have to formulate an essay using the correct tenses of the verbs with consistency.
Process
English requires a thorough understanding of how verbs are used. Even the best speakers and writers sometimes have some troubles in choosing the appropriate or correct form of a verb for a sentence. For an instance, how often have you heard "I sung the song" instead of "I sang the song"? My students, together with Princess Lila are now about to study and learn the variety of verb forms and the way verbs are used to express time. But, we first have to know what a verb is. 1. What is a verb? 2. What is a Tense 3. Verb Tenses An important use of the verb is to indicate when something happens. It is the tense of a verb that tells you if something is happening right now , was happening at some time in the past or will be happening at some time in the future. There are two ways in forming the past tense of the verb. Here is a site that will teach more about it. 4. The Six Tenses of Verbs Truly, learning the verb tense is one of the major requirements for us to learn more about the language to give us a clearer view of the rules on using these verb tenses just click on the link below. You can proceed to this next link to see the tenses in the sequencial form with some examples. 5. We often get confused in using the correct forms of the verb "Be". Thus we included this link to teach us more about the forms of the verb "Be". 6. Here is the summary of Verb Tenses we have just tackled. 7. You can also see here in a table, the summary of our lesson. 8. You may encounter some irregular verbs. To help you discover more of the irregular verbs here are some lists of irregular verbs that you can be familiar with. List of irregular verbs 9. Here are some online exercises to check if you really understood the lesson. My creation 10. Construct a short paragraph in not less than 10 sentences using the correct verb tenses that is expressing the future action. Create a title fit for your paragraph. Box all the verbs using the red pen
Evaluation
Beginning 1 Developing 2 Very Good 3 Exemplary 4 Score Compliance to the directions. Only the first instruction was used all throughout the 3 exercises. The directions in the first two exercises were followed, but the third one wasn't. All the directions were followed. Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of performance. 20 Number of sentences used in the short paragraph. The paragraph is composed of 3-5 sentences only. The paragraph is composed of 6-9 sentences. The paragraph is composed of exactly 10 sentences. The paragraph is composed of 11-15 sentences. 20 Tenses used The student commited many mistakes, and was not able to express the verbs in the correct tense most of the time. The student commited some errors in using the correct tense. The error is very minimal. The student was able to use the correct tense of the verb at all times. 20 Puting boxes The student wasn't able to put a box in the verbs. Some of the verbs were put in a box, the others weren't. Most of the verbs were boxed correctly. All the verbs were boxed correctly. 20 Total Score: 100
Conclusion
There are three main categories of time: Present, Past and Future. The Tenses of Verbs allows us to express time within these categories in a variety of ways. These actions could be done during the conversation, before or after another action and even continously doing the action. This enables us to understand when the action had happend in this time-bound world. Without these tenses of the verbs, we would never understand each other like the way we do today. The time of an action is relevant for it has been part of our daily living. In simple conversations we use these different verbs thus it is a must that we too should be aware of the diffrent tenses of the verb for better communication and understanding. Thank you for helping Princess Lila lunderstand the value of using the correct Verb Tense