Thursday, 1 May 2025

P1 EF5 Class 5

 

Good morning, everyone.

 

Today’s Agenda

·      Begin verb tenses “The Seven Most High-Frequency Verb Tenses in English”

·      “Top 100 Most Used Verbs / Nouns in English” HANDOUT

·      Continue “Golden Week”

·      Talk about topic sentences and grabbers for paragraphs

·      HW Review PLOs. Read over the PLOs. Think about which PLOs you are already PROFICIENT/EXTENDING in, and also which PLOs you are EMERGING/DEVELOPING.

Choose a few (3-4) PLOs that are interesting to you.

We will use this for writing tomorrow and every Friday.

 

Friday

·      “Self-Assessment Reflection” Week 1

Discuss PLOs. Vocab multiple choice exercises

·      Continue verb tenses, Quiz1 soon, probably Tuesday

 

 

 

The Seven Most High-Frequency Verb Tenses in English

 

There are 12 main verb tenses in English:

SIMPLE PRESENT

SIMPLE PAST

SIMPLE FUTURE

 

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE is working

PAST PROGRESSIVE was driving

FUTURE PROGRESSIVE low-frequency verb tense

 

PRESENT PERFECT

PAST PERFECT substitute simple past

She had lived lived in Cairo for six years. -authentic English

FUTURE PERFECT

She will have been working for 30 years by the time she retires.

 

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

She has been living in Canada for two years.

PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

 

Many of these vertb tenses we rarely if ever use. There is little good reason to spend time learning verb tenses that are not used often. I want to focus on the verb tenses that are high-frequency, the ones that we use all the time, a lot, all day long.

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are the most useful verb tenses that we will focus on:

SIMPLE PRESENT

SIMPLE PAST

SIMPLE FUTURE

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

PAST PROGRESSIVE

PRESENT PERFECT

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE

 

12 Seven verb tenses

 

This will my focus. You can study whatever else you want on your own.

 

 

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Overview of the seven most important verb tenses.

 

Examples of the seven most used, high-frequency verb tenses:

-SIMPLE PRESENT- everyday, habitual action, truth

She thinks about her elderly father everyday.

He goes to the gym three times a year.

 

-SIMPLE PAST- one time event in the past, finished

She went to see a movie last night.

They wanted to move to a bigger apartment when they had their second child.

 

-SIMPLE FUTURE- one time event in the future          will OR be going to

She is going to choose which colleges to apply to.

I will help you move those boxes right after I finish sweeping the floor.

 

 

 

-PRESENT PROGRESSIVE – happening right now, currently

She is video-chatting with her mother right now.

He is planning to visit Vietnam this summer.

 

-PAST PROGRESSIVE- happening in the past, often interrupted

You were riding home on the bus when your sister called.

He was mowing the lawn when his friend invited him to play pickleball.

 

-PRESENT PERFECT- started in the past, continues to now

She has thought a lot recently about her childhood.

He has wanted to get a new guitar for a couple of years now.

 

-PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE – started in the past, suggests

    continuing into the future

She has been playing Baldur’s Gate since she got home from work.

He has been thinking about getting back in shape.

 

I have worked at SHEC for 32 years. I will retire next month.

I have been working at SHEC for 32 years. I plan to stick with it.

 

I have been living here for four years. – sounds like you are planning to stay

I have lived here for four years. -future?

 

 

 

 

Focus on simple tenses:

simple present

simple past

simple future

             

 

*SIMPLE PRESENT      

-habitual action- habitual(adj) habit(noun)

                               good habit, bad habit

something you do normally, everyday, usual activity, routine

I wake up at 7am (everyday).

She goes to bed at midnight.

I eat rice everyday.

She drinks coffee.

I take a shower every Tuesday.

She drinks green tea in the morning.

HOW MUCH        I drink a lot of coffee.

She drinks two litres of water every day.

a lot of

lots of

alot

a little bit of        I need a little bit of water.

some                    

none

no                          She drinks no alcohol. She doesn’t drink any alcohol.

                               I don’t drive.

                               He doesn’t speak French.

 

I get up early every weekday (everyday).

She goes to school.

I prepare lunch for my son.

She wakes up at 5:15 every day.

He watches one hour of TV every night.

You walk your dog for one hour between 4 and 5 every evening.

I sometimes bring my dog, Butter, to school every Friday.

 

-         emotion, state of being

She is very happy.

The little girl is anxious about going to the dentist.

anxious(adj) anxiety(n)

He is busy.

Sarah is tall.

Are you happy here?

Is your daughter worried about going to the dentist?

Is your three-year-old son anxious about getting a haircut?

TEACH LATER three years old  “three-year=old” adj  - hyphen

 

Are you nervous about going back to school?

 

-         fact, truth

He is 34 years old.

The Prime Minister lives in Ottawa.

Victoria is the capital of BC.

Juan is Joan’s uncle.

Water boils at 100 degrees C.

She is from Mexico.

I live in Canada now.

It is freezing/cold here.

I am a grandma to eleven grandkids.

I am a mother of one.

I am a father of two.

 

I was born in Pakistan SIMPLE PAST

 

#1 ERROR

AGR- subject-verb agreement error

Sarah live in Vancouver. XXX

Sarah lives in Vancouver.

*Does not impede meaning. However, this will hurt your marks.

 

 

Simple Present Tense in the Negative

She drinks coffee. She doesn’t drink coffee. She does not drink coffee.

 

Let’s practice writing sentences with simple present tense.

“Top 100 Most Used Verbs / Nouns in English” HANDOUT

Use these verbs to write some (5? 10?) practice sentences. Many of the verbs you will know; many will be new.

e.g

26. call

Junko calls her sister on the phone every Sunday night.

 

YOUR EXAMPLES:

He stays in the bus station (all the time).

 

offer(n,v)   She got a job offer.(n)

He offers free tax advice to his clients.

 

Ignore the modal auxilaries- can would will could may should might must

They will not work with simple present.

 

100.remain -stay- more commonly used

She remains at school until her mother picks her up.

He remains silent most of the time. He stays/keeps silent. He is taciturn.

She gives an allowance to her daughter.

 

He sends an email to his parents every day. SIMPLE PRESENT

He sent an email to his parents. SIMPLE PAST

He will send an email to his parents. SIMPLE FUTURE

 

 

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Simple Present Tense and Frequency Adverbs

adverb- modifies a verb

              -usually, ends with ‘ly’

quickly, slowly, easily, quietly, etc

well

 

frequency adverbs- how often- never, rarely, hardly ever, seldom, sometimes, often, usually, always

 

Junko often drinks coffee in the afternoon.

Junko never drinks coffee in the afternoon.

 

*subject verb agreement

I never drink coffee in the afternoon.

You never drink coffee in the afternoon.

He never drinks coffee in the afternoon.

She never drinks coffee in the afternoon.

We never drink coffee in the afternoon.

They never drink coffee in the afternoon.

Sarah never drinks coffee in the afternoon.

Matt never drinks coffee in the afternoon.

 

 

 

 

frequency adverbs- how often- never, rarely, hardly ever, seldom, sometimes, often, usually, always

I always go for a walk in the afternoon.

I usually wake up at 7 o'clock. Today I got up at 6.

I sometimes go home by taxi. Sometimes, I take the bus.

He seldom goes to the movies.

She rarely visits her sister.

Jun hardly ever cooks for himself. He almost always gets UberEats.

 

CONTINUE TOMORROW with SIMPLE PAST and SIMPLE FUTURE

 

 

 

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