Lesson video

Hi, everyone, it's Ms. Van Vliet.

Ready for another lesson.

Today, we are going to look at the past, present, and future progressive tense.

Sounds very tricky, but I'm sure you'll be fine after this lesson with those tenses.

So, you ready? Let's get started.

Okay, so our learning objective for today is to revise the past, present and future progressive tense.

So our agenda is that we're going to do a warmup, then we're going to review tense, and then you've got the independent task.

In this lesson, you'll need exercise book or paper, a pen, or a pencil, and of course, you need your brain, and it will be good if you were in a calm, quiet space.

So if you need to go and get any of those things, pause the video and do that now.

Okay, ready? Let's get started with our learning.

So, for our warm up, could you sort these words into the right columns? I've got noun, verb, adjective, and adverb in my columns.

Remember, a noun is a PPT, person, place, or thing.

A verb is a doing or a being word.

An adjective is a describing word, and then adverb describes a verb.

So let's have a look at some of the words, walked, York.

What do you notice about that word? I'm, joyfully, brown, book.

Pause a bit if you need to, and just put those words in the correct columns.

Okay, should we have a look together? So walked is a verb, of course, because it's a doing word.

I am walking, I'm doing it right now, it's an action.

Toy is a noun.

Joyfully is an adverb.

How did he walk? He walked joyfully.

It's describing the verb.

I'm is a verb because it's a being word.

I am happy or I'm happy, it's describing how I'm feeling, so it's a being word.

Brown is an adjective, it's a describing word and there you go, York is a noun, and did you notice it has a capital letter? Hm, why would it have a capital letter? Because it's what type of noun? Can you tell me? Well done, it's a proper noun, proper noun.

Well done, proper noun is, of course, a noun for a specific person or a place.

So Ms. Van Vliet is a proper noun.

York is a proper noun.

Let's review tense.

So what is tense when you're asked, when we're talking about tensing grammar? Well, in grammar, we refer to it, tense, as expressing time reference.

We use it to show when something happened.

So we've got things that happened in the past tense.

We have things that happen in that present tense, and we have things that happen in that future tense So we've got the past tense, present tense, future tense.

An example would be I walked home.

I'm walking home.

I will walk home.

So I've already done it, I'm doing it right now, and it's going to happen later on today.

So now let's think about the past progressive tense.

So the past progressive tense describes an ongoing activity in the past.

Have a look at some sentences here that I have as an example.

So Mohamed was playing in the snow.

David's lips were quivering.

Raiza and Charlie were dancing.

Hmm, what do you notice? What do you notice about those sentences? Have a look, have some thinking time.

Pause the video if you'd like to.

What do you notice? Ah, did you notice this as well? So it was was with the present participle, which is what the I-N-G verb is.

So walking, running, dancing.

Was was for the singular nouns, and were was for the plural nouns.

So was walking, was playing.

We were dancing.

And here, look, we can see Mohamed was playing in the snow.

Do you see that Mohamed is a singular noun? And so we have was, but then it says David's lips were quivering.

Now be careful because the were is referring to the lips.

So the noun is the lips.

So it's not David 'cause David would be the singular noun, but it's his lips, there's two of them.

So his lips work were quivering, and then we've got Raiza and Charlie were dancing 'cause there's two of them.

So they were dancing.

So you have was, or were with the I-N-G words.

So was playing, were dancing, were quivering.

Wonder if you can think of any more examples? Okay, so now I'm going to give you some words and I'd like you to use those words and to say a sentence in the past progressive tense, past progressive tense.

Well done.

here are the words for you.

Have a look.

What sentence could you come up with? Well done if you've come up with something.

Remember, you can always pause the video if you need a little bit more time.

Here's my sentence that I came up with.

Ali was laughing in the park.

Ali is a singular noun.

So I have was, and then I have laughing.

Remember the I-N-G verb, and then I've added some detail that in the park.

Well done.

So we've already looked at the past progressive tense.

and now we're going to look at the present progressive tense, present progressive tense.

Okay, let's have a look.

What is the present progressive tense? Well, the present progressive tense is used for an ongoing activity in the present.

So it means right now, let's have a look at my examples.

Ravi is baking cupcakes.

Nadjah and Tom are walking to school.

The children are dancing to music.

I am working today.

Hmm, what do you notice about these sentences? Think about what we just looked at in the past progressive tense.

What's different now that we're in the present progressive tense, what's the same? Have some thinking time.

Pause the video if you need to.

Yes, let's have a look, what you have noticed.

So it's am, is, and are and the present participle.

Our present participle is, of course, the I-N-G verb and then am and is are for singular nouns, and are is for plural nouns.

So let's have a look.

Ravi is baking cupcakes.

Ravi is a singular now, so use is.

Nadjah and Tom are walking to school.

Well, there's two of them, so it's a plural noun, and so we used are, and then walking, of course, as the I-N-G verb.

The children are dancing to music.

Well, the children is a group, so it's a plural noun, and so we need are, and then dancing, and then we've got, I am working today, and I is a singular noun, and we use I am.

We don't say I is working, it's I am working.

So well done if you spotted that pattern.

Okay, time for you to say a sentence using the present progressive tense.

I'm going to give you some words and I'd like you to come up with a sentence and to say it to me.

Here are the words, have a look.

What sentence can you come up with? Remember it needs to be in the present progressive tense.

Can you say it? Well done.

Let's have a look at my sentence that I came up with.

I've got Jim and Tor, so there's two of them.

It's a plural noun.

So I have the are and then I've got shouting, so are shouting.

It wouldn't make sense if I said Jim and Tor is shouting, that doesn't work.

I need Jim and Tor are shouting at home.

So we've already looked at the past progressive tense.

We've looked at the present progressive tense.

So now we're going to look at that future progressive tense.

So what is the future progressive tense? Well, the future progressive tense describes an ongoing activity in the future.

Let's have a look at some of my examples.

Amel will be baking a cake.

John will be waiting in the rain.

The children will be singing a song in assembly.

Hmm.

WHat do you notice this time? Remember to think about singular and plural nouns.

What do you notice? Have some thinking time, pause the video if you need to.

Hmm.

Did you notice what I noticed? It's always will be and the present participle.

Remember our present participle is the I-N-G verb, well done if you said that to me.

Walking, running, dancing, and this time it's will be for singular, and for plural nouns, it's just will be and the present participle.

So let's check, Amel, she's a singular noun, but it says we'll be baking a cake.

John, singular noun, will be waiting in the rain.

The children, a plural noun, will be singing a song in assembly.

So it's always will be and the I-N-G verb.

Well done if you spotted that.

Okay, time for you to say a sentence in that future progressive tense.

So remember you need will be, and the I-N-G verb.

Here are some words for you to use.

Have some time to think.

Can you tell me? Here's my sentence.

Jo and Mark will be baking a cake tomorrow.

I've got Jo and Mark, it's a plural noun, but I'm using will be, and then I have baking, and then a cake tomorrow.

Well done if you came up with a good sentence.

So we have looked the past progressive tense.

We've looked the present progressive tense, and we've looked at the future progressive tense.

So now it's time for your independent task.

I'd like you to write three sentences, one in each tense.

Remember, the past is was for singular nouns and the I-N-G verb or were for plural nouns and the I-N-G verb.

Remember the present tense uses am and is for singular nouns and are for plural nouns and the I-N-G verb, and the future tense uses will be, and the I-N-G verb.

So write three different sentences.

You might write about what you did yesterday, what you're doing today, and what you're going to do tomorrow.

Try and make them exciting.

Remember to pause the video and complete your task.

So you should've paused the video.

and you should've completed this task.

Well done if you did.

Let's have a look at our agenda.

We did our warmup, we reviewed tense, and now you've done an independent task.

Well done, you have completed your lesson.

So you now know everything about the progressive tense, you know about the past, the present, and the future progressive tense.

It'd be really good if you shared that information with someone at home with you, with your parents or your carer.

So well done in completing this lesson and I look forward to teaching you soon again, bye.