Year 4 Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect consolidation worksheet

“Past, present and future verbs” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 English unit “Tense forms: simple, progressive and perfect consolidation”, for children aged 8 to 9, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Week 2 of the year, 3 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Past, present and future verbs

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can choose the right verb form for the simple present, past and future tenses.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which word is the verb in this sentence? ‘The tall tree swayed in the wind.’
talltreeswayed
2.
Which mark ends this sentence? ‘Ravi is at the park ’
full stopquestion markexclamation mark
3.
Which sentence starts correctly?
we went home.We went home.we Went home.

B Watch me, then you4 min

Yesterday, Ben kicked the ball. Today he kicks the ball. Tomorrow he will kick the ball.

Watch me

Kicked is the past. It happened yesterday.

Kicks is the present. It is happening today.

Will kick is the future. It has not happened yet.

Now you

1.
Which sentence is in the simple past tense?
Ola walks to school.Ola walked to school.Ola will walk to school.
2.
Change this sentence to the simple future: ‘Noor sang a song.’

C Your turn6 min

Zara goes to school by bus. Pick the verb that fits the time words.

An empty school playground at morning break with a football on the grass and a bus stop beyond the railings

1.
Every Monday, Zara ___ the bus to school.
catchescaughtwill catch
2.
Last Monday, Zara ___ the bus to school.
catchescaughtwill catch
3.
Next Monday, Zara ___ the bus to school.
catchescaughtwill catch
4.
Last Monday, Zara missed the bus. She ___ to school instead.
runsranwill run

Say it out loud: Which time word told you which verb to pick? Say the sentence again with a different time word.

D Spot the mistake3 min

A small village hall stage with a microphone on a stand and a piano, with no one on it

Ola says: “I will sang the song at the concert.”

1.
Ola's sentence needs one correction. Which verb should go after will?
sangsingsinging

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Write two sentences about this morning, both in the simple past. Then tell your grown-up how you know the tense matches.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Past, present and future verbs · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. swayed your child may have picked the describing word or the naming word. Ask: which word tells us what the tree did?

2. full stop

3. We went home. your child may have chosen the sentence with a small letter at the start. Every sentence begins with a capital letter.

B

1. Ola walked to school.

2. Look for: A sentence with will followed by the plain verb sing, such as Noor will sing a song. your child may have written sings or sang after will. After will, the main verb stays in its plain form: sing.

C

1. catches your child may have picked caught. Every Monday is a habit that happens now, so use the present: catches.

2. caught your child may have picked catches. Last Monday is finished, so the past form caught is needed.

3. will catch, catches your child may have picked caught. Next Monday has not happened yet, so it needs a future form: will catch.

4. ran

D

1. sing your child may have picked sang, which keeps the past tense after will. Will needs the main verb in its plain form: sing.

E

1. Look for: Two sentences whose verbs are both in the past tense, such as -ed verbs or irregular forms like went, plus a reason that names the tense.

Words to use

Say“Which word tells you the time? Read the sentence again with that word in it.”

Instead of“Just learn the rule: add -ed to every verb.”

After the sheet

Take a walk with your child and say three sentences about it: “I walked to the shop. I walk to the shop. I will walk to the shop.” Then swap roles and take turns changing the tense.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

2 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Tenses that keep going(with a plan)
Perfect tense stories(with a plan)

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