Teaching Past/Present/Future Perfect, Past Continuous Tense For The First Time Lesson Plan for 6th Grade Students

Topic: Teaching past/present/future perfect, past continuous tense for the first time

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to use the past perfect tense and past continuous tense correctly.

Materials

• Flashcards with verb pairs for practice (e.g. "eat/ate," "sleep/slept," "write/wrote")
• Examples of sentences using the past perfect tense and past continuous tense (e.g. "Yesterday, I ate lunch at noon. While I was eating, it started raining.")
• Whiteboard and markers

Warm-up

• Review the past tense with a quick game of "Simon Says." Use verbs such as "eat," "sleep," and "write."
• Ask the students to think of a past action they did (e.g. "went to the beach," "went to school," "sat on the couch")
• Have the students share their past actions with a partner.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the past perfect tense as a way of describing an action that happened before another action in the past.
• Use the picture cards and have the students act out the actions.
• For example, "Aunt Margaret came to visit us on vacation, but before she came, we had already bought her a gift."
• Explain that the past perfect tense is formed by using "had" + the past participle of the verb.
• Use the handouts with examples to practice making the past perfect tense.

Guided Practice

• Divide the class into small groups and give each group a set of picture cards.
• Have the students use the past perfect tense to describe the actions on the cards.
• You can use the overhead projector to display the correct forms on the board as a reference.
• Allow time for the students to share their sentences with the class.

Independent Practice

• Give each student a writing sheet with several sentences using the past perfect tense.
• Have the students use the past continuous tense to rewrite the sentences, using the past perfect tense where appropriate.
• Encourage the students to use the past perfect and past continuous tenses in their writing.

Closure

• Have the students share their rewritten sentences with the class.
• Ask the students to explain the difference between the past perfect and past continuous tenses and how they are used in their rewritten sentences.

Assessment

• Observe the students during the guided and independent practice activities to assess their understanding of past/present/future perfect tense and past continuous tense.
• Collect and review their rewritten sentences for accuracy and understanding of past/present/future perfect tense and past continuous tense.