# Session 30: Tenses Introduction

<div align="left" dir="ltr" id="bkmrk-session-title-tenses"><table style="width: 117.5%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 38.333333%;" width="199"></col><col style="width: 61.547619%;" width="434"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><td class="align-center">**Session Title**

</td><td class="align-center">**Tenses Introduction**

  
</td></tr><tr><td>Objective

</td><td>By the end of this session, students will be able to:

  
- Understand that tenses show time of action – past, present, or future.
- Identify actions related to yesterday, today, and
- Use basic tenses in simple spoken

  
</td></tr><tr><td>Topics/Concept

</td><td>- Tense = Time of action
- Three types of time: Past, Present, Future
- Simple usage of verbs in each tense

</td></tr><tr><td>Material Required

</td><td>1\. Verb cards

  
2\. Board and chalk

  
3\. Open space for movement

  
</td></tr><tr><td>Methodology

</td><td>- Active learning
- Collaborative learning
- Contextualization

  
  
  
</td></tr><tr><td>Session Duration

</td><td> 90 Minutes

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</div>### 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)

- Tell them to think about their day - today, something you did yesterday, and something you are looking forward to do tomorrow.
- For each of these three times (yesterday, today, tomorrow), draw a simple picture representing an action you did or will do.
- 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