1. Wednesday 12/19/2012
1. Tomorrow’s lock down
drill
2. Notes on Perfect
Tenses
3. Classwork: p 167 #s
1-18 Answers Only
4. Working draft of
essay by tomorrow

5. 3
short
bursts
for 1
minut

6. 1. Turn off all lights
2. Hide in an area out of the
possible shooter’s view
3. Stay close to the floor
4. Block entry to hiding
place and lock the doors
5. Silence cell phones
6. Allow no one in or out
until the ALL CLEAR signal
is given
7. BE QUIET

7. Perfect Tenses
Miss Borja
7th Grade

8. Every verb has 4 basic principal parts.
Use principal parts for form all tenses.
Verb Present Past Past
Participle participle
Paint (is) painting Painted (has) painted
Touch (is) touching Touched (has)
touched
Carry (is) carrying Carried (has) carried
Love (is) loving Loved (has) loved
Guess (is) guessing Guessed (has)
guessed

9. What are the 4 principal parts for each
word?
• hope  is hoping, hoped, has hoped
• splash  is splashing, splashed, has splashed
• laugh  Is laughing, laughed, has laughed
• create  Is creating, created, has created
 Is helping, helped, has helped
• help
 Is joking, joked, has joked
• joke

10. Present Perfect Tense- expresses an action that
took place at indefinite time in the past. Action
may still be happening.
Mr. Shook has painted many pictures since middle school.

11. Past Perfect Tense- expresses an action in the
past that was completed before another action
took place.
Mr. Shook had painted many pictures since middle
school.

12. Future Perfect Tense- expresses an action that
will be completed before another action in the
future.
Mr. Shook will have painted many pictures since middle
school.

13. I will have dated my fiance for 7 years
before marrying him.
I will have already eaten by the time
you get home.

14. Let’s Practice!

15. dance
Dance
Is dancing
Danced
Has danced

16. laugh
Laugh
Is laughing
Laughed
Has laughed

17. Dig
• Dig
• Is digging
• Dug
• Has dug

18. The girl
is whistling on
her way to class.
Present participle

19. Last year, Mrs.
Anub told us
that she was
pregnant!
past

20. Polio had
threatened the
lives of many
people before
a vaccine was
discovered.
Past perfect tense

21. In your notes:
• Use the perfect present tense for an action
that took place at an indefinite time in the past
• Use the past perfect tense for an action that
was completed before another past action
• Use the future present tense for an action that
will be completed before another future action
• p 167 #s 1-18 Answers Only
• Reference page 113