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The document provides information on English tenses including: 1) Simple past tense is formed by adding "ed" and used to talk about past actions that started and finished, like "played" and "ate". 2) Past continuous tense is formed using "was/were" plus the "-ing" form of the verb and describes ongoing past actions or events, like a team "was losing". 3) Present tense verbs describe habits, repeated actions, or facts, and use "do/does not" for negatives, like "goes" and "does not play".

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The document provides information on English tenses including: 1) Simple past tense is formed by adding "ed" and used to talk about past actions that started and finished, like "played" and "ate". 2) Past continuous tense is formed using "was/were" plus the "-ing" form of the verb and describes ongoing past actions or events, like a team "was losing". 3) Present tense verbs describe habits, repeated actions, or facts, and use "do/does not" for negatives, like "goes" and "does not play".

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Simple Past Tense – to talk about actions that started and finished in the past. It is formed by adding ed.

example: My brother played soccer yesterday, and his team won.


The boys ate breakfast quickly yesterday because they were late for school.

Past Continuous Tense – We use the past continuous tense to talk about actions or events that started in
the past. It is formed by using was/were with the –ing.

example: My brother’s soccer team was losing the game.


The boys were playing computer games at 10 o’clock.

Present Tense Verbs – We use present tense verbs to describe habits and repeated actions, to talk about
facts and to write negative sentences. We use do not or does not.

example: She goes to art class on Saturday.


He plays the violin very well.
He does not play the violin very well.

USING PRESENT AND PAST TENSE

Present Tense – We use do not or does not. We use not after is/are. We use is, am or are. To write
question in the present tense, we start the sentence with do.

example: She plays soccer in her free time.


She is not very friendly.
She does not play soccer in her free time
When is your flight?
Do students attend school every day?

Past Tense – We use did not. We use not after was/were. We start the sentence with did.

example: I won a medalfor winning the race


I did not win a prize.
My parents were not at home.
What happened to you?
Did you go to school yesterday?

Subject – that tell us who or what the sentence is about.


Predicate – that tell us what the subject is or what it does.

example: All the men are standing in a queue.


subject predicate

The hungry tiger leaped at the deer.


subject predicate

Simple Subject and Predicate– example: The man with the brown bag is running towards the store
S P

Compound Subject and Predicate – there are two Subject and two Predicate. We use and/or.

example: Samantha and her friends did not disturb anyone. (compound subject)
Jim ate the chocolates and danced to the tunes. (compound predicate)
Practice Question

Block 2

Lesson 1: Simple Past and Past Continuous Tenses

1. Underline the verbs in each sentence. Write SP for the simple past and PC for the past
continuous above each verb.

A. An unknown lady was standing in front of Alvin when he opened the door.
B. The lady looks scary, but she spoke very softly.
C. Alvin was talking to her when he heard a loud thud downstairs.
D. He rushed to the market to see that a robbery had taken place.

2. Fill in the blanks with the correct form (simple past or past continuous) of the verbs given in
parentheses.

A. I ___________________ my friend in the market last week. (see)


B. My sister ___________________ to the movie theater yesterday. (go)
C. Jim _________________his room when I arrived at his place. (clean)
D. Rosie ___________________ her friend finish his homework. (help)
E. They ___________________ lunch at 2:00pm yesterday. (have)

Block 3

Lesson 2: Time Order Words

1. Fill in the blanks using the time order words from the help box.

next after then before first finally


Every morning, the __________________________ thing that Susan does on waking up is to look at
the time in her alarm clock. __________________________, she gets up to open the window of her
room and inhales the fresh morning air. __________________________, she brushes her teeth.
__________________________ that, she checks on her pet dog and takes him for a walk.
__________________________, she goes to shower and get ready for the day ahead.

2. Read the events from A Detective’s Journal in S1. Underline the time order words in the
events in the table. Use these to number the events – 1,2,3,4, and 5.

Events Sequence
Next, I hear my father shout, “Alvin! Go and do your homework!”
Every day, the first thing I do is to wait by the window, hoping some
criminals would show up.
After that, I hear my sister yell, “Alvin! Play football with me!”
Finally, I pick up my binoculars and scan the sixty-seven shops on Luna
Street. This is what I enjoy doing every day.
Then, I hear my mother scream, “ Alvin! Come and eat your lunch!”

Block 4

Lesson 2: Present Tense Verbs

rains help barks walks run

A. I _____________________________ down the stairs every morning in a hurry.


B. My dog always _____________________________ at strangers.
C. It _____________________________ heavily each year during the monsoons.
D. My mother _____________________________ in the park in the mornings.
E. I _____________________________ my parents with household chores.

Block 5

Lesson 3: Using Past and Present Tense

1. Fill in the blanks with the correct verb.

A. My sister and I _____________________________ to our new school yesterday.


B. Ian _____________________________ a road trip a week ago.
C. There _____________________________ a huge park near the school.
D. Last sunday, we _____________________________ our grandparents.
E. My father _____________________________ us stories every night.
F. We _________________________ them for the address, but they ___________________________ know.
G. Manila _____________________________ the capital of the Philippines.
H. We _____________________________ do our homework. We forgot about it.

Block 7

Lesson 1: Subject and Predicate

1. Underline the subject and circle the predicate in each sentence.

A. The yellow lunchbox on the window belongs to the girl sitting at the corner.
B. The man in the brown coat is staring at the man standing across the street.

2. A. Use the nouns teacher and parents to write a sentence with a compound subject.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________

B. Use the verbs live and speak to write a sentence with a compound predicate.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________

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