Children’s Grace of Mary Tutorial and Learning Center, Inc

New Carmen, Tacurong City

Module 4

This module will enable you to learn about:

 Simple Past Tense of the Verb;
 Literary elements; and
 Faulty Parallelism.

Lesson 1: Simple past tense of the verb

What you need to know

How to form the past tense of regular verbs?
 We add –d on the regular verbs that ends in –e.
Example: bake – baked, rake – raked
 We change y to i and add –ed
Example: try – tried, carry – carried
 For one syllable words that has vowels before the last consonant letter, double the consonant
before adding –ed
Example: trim – trimmed, sin – sinned
 The consonant letter “l” is doubled in the end of the regular verb
Example: annul – annulled

Note: For irregular verbs and their past tense, read on page 61 of your book.
let’s check your mastery
Form the past tense of the following verbs.
1. adjust - ______________________ 6. rise - ______________________
2. fight - ______________________ 7. breed - ______________________
3. label - ______________________ 8. gaze - ______________________
4. buy - ______________________ 9. top - ______________________
5. hide - ______________________ 10. bind - ______________________

Activity
Answer Activity 4 and Activity 6 on pages 62 – 63. Write your answers on your journal notebook.

Quiz
Answer Activity 4 to Activity 6 on pages 88 – 90.

Lesson 2:Literary elements

What you need to know

What are the different literary elements?

The following are the common literary elements:
 Plot – the logical sequence of events that develops a story
 Setting – the time and place in which the story takes place
 Protagonist – the main character of the story, novel or play
 Antagonist – the character in conflict with the protagonist
 Narrator – the person or persona who tells the story
  Dialogue – the exchange of narrative speaking of the characters to one another
 Conflict – the issue or problem where the whole story revolves
 Mood – the general atmosphere of a narrative or a story
 Theme – the central idea or concept of the story

Activity 2
Do Activity 1 on pages 108 – 109.

Lesson 3: present perfect tense

What you need to know

How do you construct the Present Perfect Tense of the verb?

 For singular subjects except for the pronoun “I” – has + past participle
 For singular subjects and for the pronoun “I” – have + past participle

Example:
Liela has eaten her dinner.
The teachers have passed their modules.

Let’s check your mastery

Write the Past Perfect Tense of the following verbs.
Singular Plural
1. pour - _______________________ _______________________
2. type - _______________________ _______________________
3. spray - _______________________ _______________________
4. rise - _______________________ _______________________
5. fly - _______________________ _______________________

Quiz
Answer Activity 3 to 5 on pages 111 to 115.

Assignments
Read the following story/selection and answer the Process Questions. Write your answers on your journal
notebooks.

How the Angels Built Lake Lanao – pages 105 to 107