Year 4 · SPaG · Verb tenses
Year 4 tenses together worksheet and PowerPoint
To practise together: past tense; present tense; present perfect or simple past.
What this sheet covers
Each question comes from one of the lessons below. If a question is tricky, look back at that lesson’s sheet and slides.
| Past tense | The simple past and the past progressive, with regular and irregular verbs. |
|---|---|
| Present tense | The simple present and the present progressive. |
| Present perfect or simple past | Has or have with the past participle, and how it differs from the simple past. |
Key words
- tense
- the form of a verb that shows when something happens
- progressive
- the -ing form, for something going on
- perfect
- has or have with a past participle
- past participle
- the verb form used after has and have
What is on the worksheet
Every sheet for this lesson has a short teaching box and 12 questions that get gradually harder: 8 fluency questions, then 4 reasoning questions that ask pupils to explain or choose. A writing challenge follows. The questions use the same styles as the key stage 2 grammar and punctuation test (circle, underline, tick, fill the gap, add punctuation, rewrite, explain). They are written for this website, not copied from past papers.
All the answers are on the last page of the same editable Word file. New questions are made every time, so you can print a different sheet for every group or for homework. The same sheet code always gives the same sheet.
Writing challenge: Choose the lesson from this sheet that you found hardest. Write three new questions of your own for a friend, with an answer sheet, then swap and mark each other’s work.
Pupil target: I can remember what I have learned and use it.
The PowerPoint
A 20-slide lesson deck for the same lesson: a starter that revisits earlier learning, key words, an I do and a You do question on each slide with a countdown timer, answers that appear one click at a time, and a challenge. Download the tenses together PowerPoint.
Where this lesson fits
This is lesson 22 of 60 in the Year 4 SPaG scheme, in the block “Verb tenses”.
Other lessons in this block
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