This document provides an overview of verbs and verb tenses for 8th grade English students. It defines verbs as words that express actions, states of being, or possession. It explains that verb tenses indicate when actions occur through forms like present, past, and future. Participles are discussed as verb forms ending in "-ing" or used to make complete verbs with helping verbs. The document also categorizes types of verb tenses like simple, continuous, and perfect, and identifies the functions or moods of verbs as indicative, conditional, and imperative. Examples are provided to illustrate each verb tense, participle, and function.

1. Verbs and Verb
Tenses
Yr 8 English

2. Verbs and Verb Tenses
Learning Intention
 To know and understand what
verbs and verb tenses are.
Success Criteria
 I can say what verbs and verb
tenses are.
 I can say and give examples
of verb tenses.
 I can define and list the
functions of verbs.

3. Key Vocabulary  verb
 participles
 present participles
 past participles
 verb tenses
 present
 past
 future
 indicative
 conditional
 imperative

4. GKR
What does
the title tell
me?
What do I
predict the
text will be
about?
What can
the pictures
tell me?
What do I
already know
about this
topic?
What
words do
I expect
to see?
What
images come
to mind?
What will I
do as I
read?

5. Hook – Verb Game

6. What is a verb?
 Verbs express actions.
 They are doing, being and
having words.
Doing
Being
Having

7. What are tenses?
 Tenses of verbs tell us when
actions happen.
 Present
 Past
 Future

8. What are participles?
 Present participles are part
verbs ending in –ing
 e.g. jumping, thinking
 e.g. I am (helper) thinking
(present participle).
 Past participles are used to
make a complete (finite) verb.
 e.g. eaten, taken
 e.g. I will have (two helpers)
worked (past participle) hard.
 English uses many helper
(auxiliary) verbs. The main
ones are made from to be and
to have. They are placed
before:
 present participles
 past participles
Sometimes more than
One helper is needed to
Make a complete verb.

9. Types of verb tenses
Type Present Past Future
Simple run ran shall/will run
Continuous Is running was running shall/will be
running
Complete
(perfect)
have run had run shall/will have
run
Complete
(perfect)
continuous
have been
running
had been
running
shall/will have
been running
I run on the
track.
I ran on the
track.
I will run on
the track.

10. Types of verb tenses
Verb Present Past Future
skip
walk
eat
help
think

11. Function of verbs
 Verbs have functions.
 In grammar these are called moods.
 We can state facts, impose conditions or give
orders.

12. Function of verbs
Function Present Past Future
Stating a
fact(indicative)
work worked shall/will work
Imposing limits
(conditional)
should work
would work
should have
worked
would have
worked
should/would
replaced
shall/will
Expressing a
command,
request or an
entreaty
(imperative)
Let us work.
(first person)
Let
him/her/it/them
work. (third
person)
Work! Come!
(implied second
person)

13. Function of verbs - examples
Function Present Past Future
Stating a
fact(indicative)
I walk to the
shops.
She went to a
party yesterday.
He will buy a
mobile phone
tomorrow.
Imposing limits
(conditional)
A new stove
would work
better than this
old one.
The light should
have worked as
I put in a new
globe.
He should study
harder next
year.
Expressing a
command,
request or an
entreaty
(imperative)
Come here!
(command)
Please let him
come to your
party. (request)
Let’s not argue.
(entreaty/beggin
g)

14. Review
 Complete the Before and After
Web
 The learning actions I used
today were …