Y4 Grammar Punctuation and Spelling
Present Perfect or Simple Past Lesson
This Year 4 Present Perfect or Simple Past? lesson covers the prior learning of the present perfect tense before moving onto the main skill of recognising the present perfect and simple past tenses.
The lesson starts with a prior learning activity to check pupils’ understanding. If they need more practice, you can choose other resources for that step. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning with engaging reasoning and application tasks.
National Curriculum Objectives
English Year 3: (3G4.1b) Use of the present perfect form of verbs instead of the simple past [for example, He has gone out to play contrasted with He went out to play]
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Lesson Slides
These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of the present perfect tense before moving onto the main skill of recognising the present perfect and simple past tenses. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.
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Modelling PowerPoint
This PowerPoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the varied fluency and application and reasoning worksheets as part of this lesson.
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Year 4 GPS Scheme of Work Autumn Block 1 – Ready to Write
This is a free scheme of work for Year 4 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your English curriculum and allows you to cover the Vocabulary, Grammar and Punctuation objectives from the Year 4 National Curriculum.
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Lesson Slides
These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.
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Video Tutorial
In The Present Perfect Tense Video Tutorial, Laura identifies the tense and explains how and when it is used. She uses key terminology including auxiliary verb and past participle.
1 Prior Learning
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Prior Learning Activity
This Present Perfect or Simple Past Prior Learning Activity recaps the prior learning of the present perfect tense before moving onto the main skill of recognising the present perfect and simple past tenses.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 3 Introducing and Recognising the Present Perfect Form in Sentences activity checks pupils’ understanding of using the present tense form of ‘to have’ and a past participle form of a verb.
2 Varied Fluency
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Varied Fluency
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to support the teaching of this step.
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Interactive Activity
This Year 4 Present Perfect or Simple Past? Game is designed to check pupils' ability to recognise and use the present perfect and simple past tenses.
2 Application
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Application and Reasoning
This differentiated worksheet includes application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
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Mixed Activity
This main activity includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of present perfect and simple past tenses.
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Application
This application task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the Present Perfect or Simple Past lesson.
2 Homework
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Worksheet
This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and application and reasoning questions to support the teaching of this step.
