Aspects of the Verb: The difference between Past and Present

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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.

Control Of Error

Points Of Interest

Purpose

Direct Aim:

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

Indirect Aim:

• To prepare for verb conjugations

Variation

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