Topic: Grammar and meaning

The slides in the Activity page in the right hand menu contain examples of passives from real writing. Have students do the following:

Sometimes we make confident statements, while at other times we want to express some uncertainty. In this resource we will explore the expression of certainty and uncertainty. This is one of the areas of meaning we call modality.

In this resource we will practise using tense consistently and think about the effect of using past tense versus present tense in a story.

Goals

• Identify past tense and present tense forms.
• Practise changing tense and using tense consistently.
• Consider the effect of changing tense in a story.

Lesson Plan

Background

This lesson asks students to apply their understanding of tense, aspect, and time to structure passages of writing.

Goals

• Arrange sentences in order based on tense and aspect in the sentences.
• Practise ordering and re-ordering sentences in various ways using tense and aspect to convey the appropriate order of events.

Lesson Plan

The teacher explains that today, we will arrange a passage of writing and explore expressions of time in English.

What did you and your family do on the holidays? In this activity you will experiment with our fun sentence generator which reports on some unusual holiday happenings!