1. 1. Take out a new piece of paper for Bellwork. 2. Write your name, date, and period in the upper right corner of your paper. 3. Label your paper Bellwork 12/3- 12/5 

2. Copy these notes onto your paper: Time is shown by the tense of a verb. You use different tenses of verbs to express different times. To form tenses of verbs, you use principal parts. The principal parts of regular verbs follow a pattern.

3. Copy these notes onto your paper: Principal Parts Base Form = jump Present Participle = is jumping Past Participle = has jumped

4. Write the principal parts of each verb onto your paper. 1. close 2. try 3. expect 4. compare 5. plan 6. carry 7. stop 8. hurry

5. Copy these notes onto your paper: Simple Tenses TenseUseExample Present walk(s) For situations that exist now; for repeated actions She walks daily. They walk daily.

6. Copy these notes onto your paper: Simple Tenses TenseUseExample Past walked For situations that occurred in the past Yesterday she walked. Yesterday they walked.

7. Copy these notes onto your paper: Simple Tenses TenseUseExample Future will walk For situations that will occur in the future Later she will walk. Later they will walk.

8. Write the forms for the three simple tenses of each verb. Use she and they as your subjects. 1. mix 2. turn 3. step 4. survive 5. worry 6. pour 7. taste 8. cry

9. Copy these notes onto your paper: Perfect Tenses TenseUse Present Perfect has, have rehearsed For something that took place in the past and may still be going on He has rehearsed every day this week.

10. Copy these notes onto your paper: Perfect Tenses TenseUse Past Perfect had rehearsed For something that took place before something else in the past He had practiced before we came.

11. Copy these notes onto your paper: Perfect Tenses TenseUse Future Perfect will have rehearsed For something that will take place before something else in the future He will have finished when the bell rings.

12. Write the forms for the three perfect tenses of each verb. Use he and they as your subjects. 1. cry 2. wash 3. scrape 4. clean