TheLearnDenYear 4 · English
Tense Awareness
Year 4 learners practise past present and future tense.
The activities include Form the Past Tense of Irregular Verbs, Identify the Past and Present Tense, Identify the Past, Present and Future Tenses, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, lesson, worksheet, teaching. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
Activities covered
- Form the Past Tense of Irregular Verbs
- Identify the Past and Present Tense
- Identify the Past, Present and Future Tenses
- Learn About the Present Perfect Tense
- Practise Using the Perfect Tense with Irregular Past Participles
- Recognise the Past Tense of Irregular Verbs
- Use Present Perfect Tense With Past Participles Ending in -ed
- Use the Present Perfect Tense
- Use the Present Perfect Tense with Past Participles Ending in -en
Checked learning resources
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Sentences in the simple present, past and future tense
Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website
Year 4 Oak lesson directly models how to identify and form past, present and future tense sentences.
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Simple Past and Present Tenses Video
Twinkl · Video · Account may be required
Direct animated grammar video using colour-coded sentences and varied verbs to distinguish simple past from simple present tense.
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Oak Year 4: Sentences in the perfect present, past and future tense
Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website
Free Year 4 lesson video, slides, worksheet and quizzes teaching present perfect tense with have or has plus a past participle, including irregular forms such as done, been and swum.
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KS2 Regular and Irregular Verbs Worksheets
Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required
KS2 child-friendly guidance plus three differentiated worksheets for recognising and forming regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense.
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Matching Irregular Verbs Activity Sheet
Twinkl · Worksheet · Account may be required
Primary tense revision matching present-tense verbs to their irregular past-tense forms and retaining accurate irregular forms over time.
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Using suffixes to form the past and present tense - English - Learning with BBC Bitesize
BBC Bitesize · Teaching · Opens on the provider website
An English guide to using suffixes to form the past and present tense. KS2 English topic: Prefixes and suffixes.
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Year 4 SPaG Samurai: Verb Forms and Tenses
Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required
Exact Year 4 five-session teaching and practice pack consolidating verb forms, past and present tenses, tense consistency and how tense choices fit different writing purposes.
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Simple Past, Present and Future Tense PowerPoint
Twinkl · Teaching · Account may be required
KS2 teaching PowerPoint explaining when and how to identify and use simple past, simple present and simple future verb forms, with highlighted sentence examples.