Lesson video

Hi there.

I'm Mrs. Howley.

This is Cedric.

Oh, and Cedric's very excited today.

We've got a grammar focus, and he loves working with words and sentences.

I agree.

You can do amazing things with words and sentences.

I know.

Oh, he's also a bit worried that it might be a bit tricky.

You might be worried sometimes that the learning might be tricky, but don't worry, because I've got a rhyme that will help you remember why it's important to do tricky learning.

It goes like this, you don't need to worry if things get tricky, that's the only way that the learning gets sticky.

Should we try it again? You don't need to worry if things get tricky, that's the only way that the learning gets sticky.

Let's get ready for learning.

So in today's lesson, we're going to learn to use the past tense.

And we're going to look at how we add ed to verbs to show the past tense.

Let's look at our agenda for today.

We're going to start by recapping the story of The Magic Paintbrush, then we're going to learn about what we mean when we talk about the past tense.

Then we're going to do some shared writing.

And then I've got a task for you.

You are going to need an exercise book or some paper, a pencil and your brilliant brain.

Why don't you pause the video now so you can collect those things.

When we retell the story of The Magic Paintbrush, we use the past tense, because we talk about the story, like it happened in the past.

Now, Cedric was a bit worried that he might not be able to remember all of the story.

But don't forget, you can use your map to help you and your actions.

Let's see what we can remember about the story.

Cedric is going to ask me some questions about the story.

You can do this with someone at home, and it helps you remember the important parts of the story.

Who's the main character? Marlian.

He dreams about a magic paintbrush.

What happens next? He gets a magic paintbrush and helps loads of people with it.

Is there a problem in the story? There is Cedric because a greedy king steals the paint brush from him.

I know.

What happens next? Next, the greedy king tries to persuade Marlian to draw loads of things for him to make him rich.

Does he do it? Well, he tricks him.

And instead of drawing a golden mountain, he draws a great wave which destroys the greedy king's ship.

And then Marlian lives a happy life, helping other people.

So what is past tense? When we write a story, or we tell a story, and we talk about events that happened in the past, we have to use the past tense.

And we do that by changing the verbs that we use.

So what are verbs? Verbs are action words, doing words.

Things that we can be or do.

Let's have a look for the verbs in the sentences.

He painted amazing things and helped other people.

He had a magic paintbrush.

The greedy king wanted the paintbrush for himself.

Our verbs are painted, helped, had and wanted.

So all of these verbs are in the past tense.

If I was talking about what Marlian was doing right now, in the present tense, I might say he paints, he helps, he has, he wants.

But when we change to the past tense, most verbs follow this rule.

For regular verbs, you add ed.

But for regular verbs that end in e, you just add d.

Let's have a look at what that looks like in practise.

Today, I paint but yesterday in the past, I painted.

So I've added ed.

Today, I help, yesterday I helped.

Well done.

Today, I want yesterday I wanted so I've added ed.

On this last one, today I live, the word already ends in e.

So do I add ed? No, I just add d.

Yesterday I lived.

We're now going to try some shared writing, using those rules to write some verbs in past tense.

Now, when we practise these sentences, first of all, we're going to think it, then we're going to say it, then we're going to punctuate it.

Think it, say it, punctuate it.

Are you ready? Our first sentence is going to describe the mood of wonder.

Remember, we're thinking about wonder and our other moods across this unit.

So in the first sentence, I'm going to describe something Marlian did in the past tense.

He painted a beautiful river.

Can you say that after me? He painted a beautiful river.

He painted a beautiful river.

Capital letter, he painted a beautiful river, full stop.

Fantastic.

Our next sentence is going to show the mood of mystery.

And it's going to talk about his dream.

It's going to be he had.

that's a tricky past tense verb, he had a dream.

He had a dream.

Capital letter he had a dream full stop.

Great.

Now, let's think it, write it read it back.

So my first sentence was, he painted a beautiful river.

He, that's one of our tricky words.

Painted, so I've got the verb painted with an ed on the end of it to show that it's past tense.

He painted a, that's one of our high frequency words.

Beautiful.

Now I use a special way of remembering how to spell the word beautiful.

Which is big elephants are under trees in forests until light.

He painted a beautiful river.

He painted a beautiful river, full stop.

Fantastic.

Our next sentence was he had a dream.

That's a tricky past tense verb, had.

He had a.

that's one of our high frequency words, dream.

He had a dream, full stop.

Great and I've got my finger spaces and my capital letters and my full stop.

Our next sentence is going to show the joy and happiness that people were feeling.

The people danced in the field.

The people danced in the field.

Capital letter, the people danced in the field full stop.

So now let's think it, write it, read it back.

Think it, the people danced in the field, full stop, capital letter the, one of our tricky words people, that's another one of our tricky words.

We can't sound it out.

We've just got to know it, danced, here's our past tense verb dance.

Now the word dance ends in e, so we just add a d well done.

The people danced in the, tricky word, field, the people danced in the field.

full stop.

Okay, so now it's your turn.

I'm going to say a sentence.

We're going to say it out loud.

We're going to punctuate it, count the words and then you can pause the video and write it down.

These are the tricky words you might need, to, he a, the want and people.

Your first sentence is he wanted to help the people.

He wanted to help the people, six words.

He wanted to help the people, full stop Now be careful with wanted.

We've given you the tricky word want.

What do you need to add on to the end to make it a past tense verb? He wanted to help the people, full stop.

Pause the video now and have a go at that sentence.

Cedric wanted me to remind you, you can also use your phonics to sound out some of the words.

Look at the letters say the sounds then blend them together.

Your next sentence is, he lived a happy life.

He lived a happy life.

Five words.

Well done.

You spotted that happy, one of our spelling's is in there.

He lived a happy life, capital letter he lived a happy life full stop.

Be careful with lived.

Do we add ed or do we just add e? Pause the video now and write that sentence.

Great.

Our final sentence is, he painted a sea.

He painted a sea.

Four words.

He painted a sea, full stop.

How did you get on? Cedric thinks he spotted some errors in some sentences.

So I need you to be past tense police.

Past tense police at the ready.

I'm going to use my purple polishing pen to edit my work.

He wants to help the people, past tense it needs to be he wanted to help the people.

Our next sentence says he lived a happy life.

Now lived ends.

live ends in an e.

So we just needed to add a d.

That's correct.

But hang on a minute, happy is one of our spelling's and it's got a double consonant so it should have two ps.

He lived a happy life.

Brilliant.

He paint, painted.

I need to add ed to my past tense verb.

Fantastic editing past tense police.

Wow, wow.

What a lot of learning we've done today.

Don't forget our rhyme about resilience.

You don't need to worry if things get tricky, that's the only way that the learning gets sticky.

I hope you've had some sticky learning today about past tense.

We'll be using lots of this fantastic learning when we write the story of The Magic Paintbrush.

Full of mood, mystery and magic.

If you'd like to share any of your fantastic learning, I'd love to see it.

Ask a parent or a carer to share it for you.

Have a great day.

See you soon.