The document outlines the agenda and homework assignments for lessons 7 and 8. It discusses the present, past, and future perfect verb tenses. It explains how to form the perfect tenses by adding has, had, have, or will have to a past participle. Examples are provided to illustrate the use of each tense. The homework includes vocabulary, spelling, an essay, reading logs, and tests.

1. Lessons 7 and 8.notebook February 19, 2013
February 19, 2013 Agenda
• Spelling & Vocabulary
> Unit 12 Vocabulary pages 134­135
• Grammar
> Chapter 4, Lesson 7
• Literature
> The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Religious Symbolism Essay
Homework:
• Unit 12 Vocabulary pages 134­135 due on Thursday, 2/21
• Unit 12 Spelling Post Test on Friday, 2/22
• Religious Symbolism Essay due on Friday, 2/22
• Independent Reading Sheet & Closing Log due on Friday, 2/22
• Grammar, Chapter 4 Test on Wednesday, 2/27
• Independent Reading Sheet & Final Log Book due on Friday, 3/8
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2. Lessons 7 and 8.notebook February 19, 2013
Lesson 7: Perfect Tenses
• The present perfect tense places an action or condition in a stretch of
time leading up to the present .
Balloons existed
in the past; they
Hot­air balloons have existed for 300 years. still exist.
• The past perfect tense places a past action or condition before another
past action or condition .
After scientist had used weather Had used is
farther back in
balloons for years, people discovered the past that
them for sport. discovered.
• The future perfect tense places a future action or condition before
another future action or condition .
However, many more people will have tried Will have tried will
occur before it
the sport before it becomes ordinary. becomes ordinary.
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3. Lessons 7 and 8.notebook February 19, 2013
Forming Perfect Tenses
To form the present perfect, past perfect, and future
perfect tenses, add has, had, have or will have to a past
participle of the verb.
Singular Plural
I have floated we have floated
Present Perfect
you have floated you have floated
(has or have + past participle) he/she/ it has floated they have floated
I had floated we had floated
Past Perfect
you had floated you had floated
(had + past participle) he/she/it had floated they had floated
I will have floated we will have floated
Future Perfect
you will have floated you will have floated
(will + have + past participle) he/she/it will have floated they will have floated
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4. Lessons 7 and 8.notebook February 19, 2013
1. People had wanted flight for hundreds of years, even though they
were flightless.
2. The Montgolfier brothers had launched small balloons in 1782
before they sent up a balloon carrying animals in 1783.
3. Now pilots have circled the world non­stop in a balloon.
4. In March 2009 it will have been ten years since Jones and
Piccard's historic flights.
5. Piccard's grandfather had piloted a balloon to a height of nearly
52,000 feet in 1931, almost 70 years before his grandson's feet.
6. Weather scientists have learned much about the earth's
atmosphere from balloon flights.
7. They have taken air samples around the globe.
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