Topic: Grammar in context

In this lesson, students identify verbs in fictional extracts and discuss the reasons why authors may have chosen particular verbs in their writing.

In this resource we will practise using tense consistently and think about the effect of using past tense versus present tense in a story.

Goals

• Identify past tense and present tense forms.
• Practise changing tense and using tense consistently.
• Consider the effect of changing tense in a story.

Lesson Plan

Background

In this activity, students look at how nonfinite clauses might be used in their own writing and that of others to vary the structure of a text. On one level, this is about creating something that people like to read: something that is interesting, varied and engaging and designed to hook the reader or suit the style you are hoping to adopt. On another level, it’s about students showing teachers and examiners that they know about different forms and can use them in their writing.

This lesson looks at how you might use your knowledge of prepositions and preposition phrases to write a short story aimed at children.

In this activity we will examine some short extracts from novels. The idea is to look at the tense and aspect forms used, and think about how they are used to unfold the action of the story.