Cambrian College

First Digital Campus in Bangladesh

Md. Abdur Razzak Sarker Associate Professor

Department of EnglishCambrian College Dhaka.

Tense denotes the time of the action indicated by a verb. The time is not always the same as that indicated by the name of the tense.

Objectives

By the end of the lesson you will be able : to identify different tenses. to know the kinds of tenses to know structures of sentences in different tenses.

†h Tense Øviv wPišÍb mZ¨, Af¨vmMZ mZ¨ A_ev mPivPi NUbv eY©bv Kiv nq Zv‡K Present Indefinite Tense e‡j| h_v: He goes to school.

Structure: Subject + Present form of Verb + Object + evKx Ask

The boy eats rice.

s/es †hvM Kivi wbqg hw` ev‡K¨i Subject wU He, She, It, BZ¨vw` Third Person Singular

Number nq Zvn‡j Verb Gi mv‡_ wb‡gœi †ÿθ‡jv‡Z s/es hy³ Ki‡Z n‡e|

1. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l Ch _v‡K †hgb: catch-catches, 2. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l Sh _v‡K †hgb: punish-punishes, 3. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l GKUv gvÎ O _v‡K †hgb: Go-goes, veto-

vetoes 4. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l SS _v‡K †hgb: miss-misses 5. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l Z _v‡K †hgb: buzz-buzzes 6. hw` Verb Gi †k‡l X _v‡K †hgb: mix-mixes

Positive Negative (doesn’t + verb)

Bill lives in the USA.

He likes football a lot.

He doesn’t like cooking.

Tom doesn’t live in Italy. NOT: doesn’t lives

She reads a lot of books.

Rita works with children.

She doesn’t read books.

Ana doesn’t use a computer.NOT: doesn’t uses

Most verbs: add ‘s’

Work ---- works live ---- lives

Verbs ending in - ch, - sh or - o: add - es

watch ---- watches go ---- goes

Verbs that end in - y: Instead of y ‘ies’

study ---- studies go ---- goes

Answer the following question. (a) Can you differentiate present simple and simple

past tense?

True or false. If false, give the correct answer.(a) Tenses play insignificant role in English language. True/false.

Identify the tenses of the following sentences.

The above sentence is in simple

past tense.

Now try to fill in the blanks with verbs of correct tenses discussing in groups from the hands out.

Write a paragraph in about 100 — 120 words about Environment Pollution using the correct tenses.

All the best.

Thank you.

Thank you.