Aspects of the Verb: The difference between Past and Present

Age
6-9.

Materials

 * Slips of paper

Preparation
The directress writes a command.

Presentation

 * 1) The child reads and executes the command.
 * 2) Directress asks: "What have you done?" The child answers: "I have brought you a pencil"
 * 3) "What did it say for you to do on this card?"
 * 4) "Bring me a pencil".
 * 5) Note that "You say that you have brought me a pencil, not I bring you a pencil".
 * 6) The present tense lasts only while the action is being done. Once the action is finished, it is already in the past.
 * 7) More examples are given.

Purpose
Direct Aim:


 * To notice the change in the verb for past and present

Indirect Aim:


 * To prepare for verb conjugations