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Self Review Slides Grammar

Summary of the verb tenses

What are tenses?

• We form verbs in tenses to tell us about the time of the action/s.

Please watch  the Stepping Stones video and write notes in your notebook or on your SS notes pages, while you listen. 

Remember to look for irregular verb forms in the back of your Stepping Stones, column 2 and 3.

summary

present simple We eat lunch at noon everyday. (or She/he eat s )	past simple Yesterday they ate l unch. (regular verbs add -ed)
present continuous We are eating some bread right now . (S/he/it is eating )	past continuous We were eating ice-cream but it melted . (I was eating... )
present perfect I have eaten too many sandwiches a nd now I feel sick. (S/he/it has eaten )
future I will not (won't) eat sandwiches tomorrow.
We eat dinner at 8 pm this evening.
We are (we're) eating dinner with friends later. We are going to eat dinner later.
used to We used to like playing with dolls when we were little.

I can...

• Identify the tenses we've learned.
• I can use the correct tense in a sentence.
• I am getting to know irregular verb forms.
• I know the difference between the past simple and participle.

Active and Passive Sentences

• Active: It is clear  who did the action.

Milan baked a cake.

• Passive: The action is emphasised, not who did it.

A cake was baked (by Milan).

Why do we use the passive voice?

• The passive voice is less personal.
  
• It's used if we don't know who or what did something, or if the doer is not important.

How?

1. Place the object at the start of the sentence

2.Use a form of to be + past participle of the main verb

is/am/are 

were/was

is/am/are/were/was being

The thief stole the jewellery. >The jewellery was stolen (by the thief).

The girl brushes the horse. >The horse is being brushed  (by the girl).

+ past participle

Summary and examples

Tense	Activ e	Passive
present simple	The cat catches the mouse. My dad drives me to school. The coach gives t hem a prize.	The mouse is caught . I am driven to school. They are given a prize.
present continuous	The cat is catching a mouse. My parents are driving me to school. The coach is giving them a prize.	A m ouse is being caught . I am being driven to school. They are being given a prize.
past simple	The cat caught a mouse. My dad drove me to school. The coach gave them a prize.	The mouse was caught . I was driven to school. The were given a prize.

I can...

• Identify the tense in a sentence.
• Understand the different between active and passive sentences.
• Change an active sentence to passive and vice versa, with present simple, present continuous and past simple.
• Write sentences in the passive voice.