1. Verbs level 3 By Francisco Nieto Salazar
Includes: regular/irregular , plural, present, future, past perfect, subject-verb agreement, prepositional phrases

2. Verbs
Present: The present tense expresses an action happening now, or that happens regularly.
I walk
You walk
She walks
He walks
They walk
We walk

3. Verbs
Present: The present tense expresses an action happening now, or that happens regularly.
I walk
You walk
She walks
He walks
They walk
We walk
I watch
You watch
She watches
He watches
They watch
We watch
Third person singular use -s or -es
Use –es, with words that end in : x , ch, sh, s

4. Verbs
1. I _________ my car with soap and water, and sometimes my sister ________ too.
wash
washes
2. Mike Tyson no longer ________.
boxes
3. My mother still ________ my little sister, but I can ______ myself.
dresses
dress
4. I _______ to school by myself, but my brother still _______ with my mother. Sometimes we _____ at my aunt’s house and _____ dinner on the way home. My aunt ______ to cook Chinese food, but I don’t ______ it so much.

5. Verbs Correct the errors:
Sometimes we watches a movie and buys popcorn. My little brother Carlos is allergic and feels sick when he eats it. Still, we have a good time and love horror movies the most. My grandparents comes too, and they enjoys themselves.

6. Verbs Correct the errors:
Sometimes we watches a movie and buys popcorn. My little brother Carlos is allergic and feels sick when he eats it. Still, we have a good time and love horror movies the most. My grandparents comes too, and they enjoys themselves.

7. Past Tense regular irregular Can be made by adding –d, or -ed
Don’t follow rules
present:
Win
Say
Write
Read
fly
past:
Won
Said
Wrote
Read
flew
Completed = complete + d
Traveled = travel + ed
Formed = form + ed

8. Irregular verbs
Change the following present tense verbs into the past.
Bring --
Hold --
Give --
Sit --
Teach --
Think --
Swim --
Sell --
tell --
Send --
Spend --
Build --
Buy --
Keep --
Sleep --
Choose --
Grow --
Freeze --
Take --
Steal --
Wear --
Do --
Rise --
Shake --

9. Irregular verbs
Change the following present tense verbs into the past.
Bring brought
Hold held
Give -- gave
Sit -- sat
Teach -- taught
Think -- thought
Swim -- swam
Sell -- sold
tell told
Send -- sent
Spend -- spent
Build -- built
Buy -- bought
Keep -- kept
Sleep slept
Choose -- chose
Grow -- grew
Freeze -- froze
Take -- took
Steal -- stole
Wear -- wore
Do did
Rise rose
Shake -- shook

10. Irregular verbs
Choose five irregular verbs and write a sentence in the past.
Last year…
Yesterday…
Last Christmas…
Earlier this week…
When I woke up this morning…

11. Verbs Present Perfect: includes part of the past and into the present:
Helping verbs/ auxiliary verbs: appear with main verb in perfect tenses, and include have, has, had
Present Perfect: includes part of the past and into the present:
Mr. Lewis has retired from sports.
Helping verb (present)
main verb (past)
The ice skaters have practiced all week for the show.
The dancers have __________ all week for the __________.
I have __________ all week for my science test.

12. Verbs
Past Perfect: action began and ended before another event in the past.
The ice skater had fallen twice before the song was over.
helping verb (past)
main verb (past)
Monica had taken all of her pictures out before her house burned.
Edwin had cleaned all of his ______ before his mom arrived.
Selene had ________ __________ before ______________.

13. Verbs
Future Perfect: describes action that will begin and end before another future event.
By the time we get home, the game will have ended.
helping verb (future)
main verb (past)
helping (present)
When they finally arrive, we will have eaten all the food.
When I finally _______, I will have finished all the _______.
By the time Samuel _______, he will ______ finished all the _______.

14. Verbs
Present perfect.
Notice this –ing!
1. The lunch attendant ____ ______ cleaning the kitchen.
has
been
2. My mother’s car ____ ______ working properly.
has
been
3. Rufus’ dogs ____ _______ chewing on the furniture.
4. ____________has ________________________.
____________has ________________________.
has eaten ____________________.
have taken ___________________.
have
been

15. Verbs
Past Perfect
1. Before sunrise my mother ____ _____ my birthday cake.
2. By the time we got home, our dog Rufus ____ _____ all the curtains.
3. Before I ____ even _____ talking, my sister ____ already ____
crying.
4. Before recess started yesterday, my teacher ____ already _____ ______________ .
5. By 3:00 am all of the _______ ___ _______ _____.....
6. You may _____ already ______ this _____ last ______.

16. Verbs
Past Perfect
1. Before sunrise my mother ____ _____ my birthday cake.
had
baked
2. By the time we got home, our dog Rufus ____ _____ all the curtains.
had
destroyed
3. Before I ____ even _____ talking, my sister ____ already ____
crying.
had
finished
had
started
4. Before recess started yesterday, my teacher ____ already _____ ______________ .
had
5. By 3:00 am all of the _______ ___ _______ _____.....
had
6. You may _____ already ______ this _____ last ______.

17. Verbs
Future Perfect
1. When they finally arrive we __________ finished our meal.
will have seen
2. ___________________________________________.
seen
3. ___________________________________________.
4. ___________________________________________.
5. By 3:00 am all of the _______ ___ _______ _____.
6. You may _____ already ______ this _____ last ______.

18. Verbs Present Perfect Present Perfect 1. We have played soccer.
2. She has eaten pizza.
seen
3. He has learned to swim .
4. They have practiced their spelling words.
5. I have wet my bed.

19. Verbs Past Perfect Present Perfect 1. She had fallen down before ….
2. They had gone home before ...
seen
3. I wanted another ice cream before…
4. He made a mess before…
5. We took the last one before…

20. Verbs Future Perfect Present Perfect By the time I get home…
1. I will have played recess .
seen
2. I will have finished my work.
3. he will have been home.
4. they will have played video games.
5. the show will have ended.

21. Verbs Present Perfect Practice dialogues What’s wrong? I’m so tired.
Why are you tired?
I have studied for three days straight!
Do you have a test or something?
I have a test coming up on Friday on the history of bubble gum.

22. Verbs Practice dialogue Present Perfect For what class?
For Mr. Nieto’s class
I have taken his class before
Then you have taken the test also!

23. Subject-Verb agreement
Verbs have to agree with their subject
I take…
She takes…
make
dance
box
fly
I make
He makes
She
They We
Pedro

24. Subject-Verb agreement
Plural subjects have plural verbs and singular subjects have singular verbs
fly
A teacher punishes a student.
The teachers punish a student.
Plural subject
Plural verb
Singular subject
Singular verb
A teacher at Tyrrell Elementary school ________ his students on a field trip.

25. Subject-Verb agreement
Agreement with prepositional phrases…
Across the street is my aunt’s house.
Prepositional phrases begin with : across, before, during…
fly
verb
subject
Here ____ the buildings that the ancient Romans built.
Agreement in interrogative sentences:
Helping verb
Helping verb
main verb
main verb
Do your video games work?
Does your PSP work?
Subject singular
Plural subject

26. Prepositional Phrases
A preposition shows relationship between a noun or a pronoun to another word in the sentence.
The animal near the fire could not escape. on
onto
outside
since
through
under
until
with
about
above
across
after
against
along
Among at
before
behind
below
beside
between by
down
during
for
from in
inside
instead of
into
near
off

27. Prepositional Phrases
a preposition in a sentence always has an OBJECT.
The car behind my house caught fire.
object
Practice: Find the preposition and its object
A large rock tumbled down the mountain.
I feel lost without my GPS.
Since I got home nothing has gone right
I got bored during the baseball game.

28. Prepositional Phrases
Under my desk there was a ball.
Below my house there is an apartment
After school I ran towards my house.
The cat is above the couch.
I feel full after dinner.