Session 30: Tenses Introduction

Intro Activity (15 minutes):

                 Action statues 

• Tell the children that you will call out different actions. When you say an action, they need to start doing it.
  
•  Explain that when you shout "Freeze!", they must stop immediately and hold their pose like a statue.
•  Start with a few simple actions and practice freezing. For example:

1.     "Jump!" (Children jump)
   
2.    "Freeze!" (Children stop in their jumping pose)
   
3.    "Run!" (Children run)
   
4.    "Freeze!" (Children stop clapping)

• Continue these Action statues for a few minutes just to warm up the children.

Main Topic/ Activity (50 minutes)

              What is "When" (30 minutes)

•  Draw a clock on board or pointing to the classroom clock tell children to "Look at this clock. What does it tell us?" (Encourage answers like "time," "what time it is," etc.)
•  Tell them today we are going to study a new topic that is very essential in English, we are going to talk about how we know when things happen in our sentences. We call this 'tenses'. It's like having a special way to show if something is happening now, if it already happened, or if it will happen later."
•  Teacher: "Imagine you are telling a story. It's important to know when each part of the story took place, right?" (Give a simple example: "I ate breakfast this morning." vs. "I will eat lunch soon.")

                 Tenses Area(20 minutes)

• Divide three corners of class as past area, present area, and future area.
• Then briefly introduce the idea that verbs change based on when the action happens—before now (past), now (present), or after now (future).
• Demonstrate with Examples: Show a verb card (e.g., "jump") and say:

1.     "Yesterday, I jumped." (Past)
2.     "Today, I am jumping." (Present)
3.     "Tomorrow, I will jump." (Future)
   

• Student Participation:  Ask students to form a circle and call on students to pick 2 verb cards each and place it in the correct section of the area, saying a sentence for each tense form

Follow up Task (5 minutes)

Ask students to write the things :

1.    One thing that they did yesterday
   
2.    One thing they are doing today
   
3.    One thing they will do tomorrow

Review Questions/Assessment/Tasks (20 minutes)

1.  Tell them to think about their day - today, something you did yesterday, and something you are looking forward to do tomorrow.
2.   For each of these three times (yesterday, today, tomorrow), draw a simple picture representing an action you did or will do.
   
3.   Below each picture, write a very short sentence describing the action and include a word that tells us when it happened or will happen.
   

Expected Learning Outcome:

Knowledge building-

•  Understand that "tense" relates to when an action takes place in a sentence.
•   Differentiate between actions happening now, actions that already happened, and actions that will happen.
• Recognize simple time-related words (like "yesterday," "today," "tomorrow," "ago," "soon") as indicators of when an action occurs.

Skill building-

• Work in groups to categorize verbs into past, present, and future areas.  
  
•  Engage in peer discussions while forming sentences.  
  
•  Participate in "Action Statues" to associate verbs physically