This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching English tenses to learners. The plan introduces the three main tenses - present, past and future - and explains their four forms using examples and rules. Activities include charts, questions to engage learners, example sentences for each tense form, and exercises to reinforce understanding of concepts. The goal is for learners to understand tense forms and be able to identify and use tenses correctly.

1. Self-Designed Innovative Lesson
PLAN
Sonia J Mathew
English
Register no: 13386018
Year : 2013 - 2014
Name of the Teacher : Sonia J Mathew
Name of the School : St. Thomas H.S.S

2. Subject : English
Type of lesson : Grammar
Unit : Tenses
Sub- unit : Tense forms
Issue : Lack of Knowledge about
tense forms
Curricular Statements
The learners:
1)get to know about different forms of tenses.
2)develop the ability to identify tenses
3)understand the usage of tense forms
Content Analysis
The form of the verb that expresses the time of
the action is called tense. Since there are three
divisions of time(present, past and future), there
are three main tenses: Present tense, past tense

3. and Future tense. Each of these tense forms has
four different forms.
Pre-Requisites
The Learners
1) have heard of tenses
2) have studied verb
Teaching-Learning Resources
Charts with activities
Teacher warms up the learners by asking some
casual questions.
1)How are you all?
2)Have you ever thought of time?
3)What do you know about time?
Teacher makes the concept clear to the learners
by mentioning about tenses.
Tenses are the different forms of verbs indicating
the time of action or state.

4. Teacher then explains the learners about different
forms of tenses.
In English, we have three tenses. They are
present, Past and Future tenses.
Teacher first explains the present tense.
The four different forms of present tense are:
1)Simple Present Tense
2)Present Continuous Tense
3)Present Perfect Tense
4)Present Perfect Continuous Tense
Teacher provides the learners with the activity
chart carrying present tenses.
Teacher asks the learners to create a sentence
using subject ,auxiliary verbs and different forms
of content words, and an object.
Teacher makes them aware of different tense
forms by giving them the structural rules of
present tense forms.
1)Simple Present Tense

5. Rule
I
We + Verb
You (stem form) + object
They
He
She + verb+ -‘s’ or ‘-es’
It
Teacher makes the concept clear by giving
examples.
Eg:I write a letter
He writes a letter
2)Present Continuous Tense
Rule
I + am + verb +-‘ing ’+ object

6. We
You + are + verb + ing + object
They
He
She +is + verb + ing + object
It
Eg:I am writing a letter
He is writing a letter
They are writing a book
3) present Perfect Tense
Rule
I
We +have+verb ( past participle) +
You object
They
He

7. She + has + verb ( past participle) + object
It
Eg: I have written a letter.
He has written a letter.
4) present perfect continuous tense
Rule
I
We
You + have been + verb + ing + object
They
He
She + has been + verb + ing + object
It
Eg: I have been writing a letter.
He has been writing a letter.
Teacher makes the learners thorough with
concepts by giving them more exercise.

8. Teacher gives the rules of past tense forms and
future tense forms also.
1)Simple past tense
Rule
I
We
You
He + verb (past form) + object
She
It
They
Eg: I wrote a letter.
2)Past continuous tense
Rule
I
He
She + was + verb + ing + object
It
We
You +were + verb + ing+ object

9. They
Eg:I was writing a letter
They were dancing
3)Past Perfect Tense
Rule
I
we
You
He + had been+ verb+ ing+
She object
It
They
Eg:I had been writing a letter.
Teacher makes the learners clear with the
concept of past tense and moves on to the
rules of future tense.
1)Simple Future Tense
Rule
I +Shall/will+ verb + object
We
You
He

10. She + will+ verb+ object
It
They
Eg: I will write a letter
We shall sing a song
2)Future Continuous tense
Rule
I +will/shall+ be+ verb+ ing+ object
We
You
He
She +will+be+ verb+ ing+ object
It
They
Eg:I will be writing a letter.
He will be coming tomorrow.
3)Future Perfect tense
Rule
I + will/shall+ have+ verb(past
We participle)+ object
Eg:I will have written a letter.
4)Future Perfect Continuous Tense

11. Rule
I +shall/will+ have been+ verb +
We ing + object
You
He + will+ have been+ verb + ing
She + object
It
They
Eg: She will have been singing a song.
Teacher makes the concept more clear by
giving the learners more activities.