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Dragon Boat Practice: Tenses for Time, Order, and If

Use verb tenses with a youth dragon boat team to show times, states, the order of past events, and real or imagined conditions.

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Grade
Grade 5
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ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students match verb tenses to time clues and use verbs to show states at different times.
  • Students use the past perfect tense to show which of two past events happened first.
  • Students use verb tenses correctly in real and imagined if-sentences.

How to use

Review time clues such as since, right now, and by the time before starting. Work through one section at a time and discuss the if-sentences together at the end.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.5.1.c

Use verb tense to show various times, sequences, states, and conditions.

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Dragon Boat Practice: Tenses for Time, Order, and If

Show when things happen, which came first, and what will or would happen.

Times and states

Verb tenses and time clues work together to show when something happens or how something is.

Ines paddles for the Cedar Lake Comets, a youth dragon boat team. In a dragon boat, the paddlers sit in pairs, a drummer at the front beats a steady rhythm, and a steerer at the back guides the boat.
1.
Match each sentence to the time clue that fits its verb.
  1. ______, Hana will steer the boat for the first time.
  2. ______, Kwame has paddled with the Comets.
  3. ______, Lucia is counting the strokes out loud.
  4. ______, the boat had already left the dock.
  1. A. By the time Mateo arrived
  2. B. Next Saturday
  3. C. Since last June
  4. D. At this very moment
2.
Underline the verb phrase that shows an action that was in progress when something else happened.

WhileLuciawas tappingthe drum,a ducklandedon the frontof our boat.

3.
Write the form of the verb feel that fits each time clue.

Yesterday before the race, Priya   nervous. Right now, she   calm and ready.

4.
Write the form of the verb be that fits each time clue. Use will for the future.

The lake   calm right now, but tomorrow afternoon it   choppy.

What happened first?

The past perfect tense (had + past participle) shows which of two past actions happened first.

5.
Read the three sentences. Each one tells about two events. Sort every event: did it happen first or second?
1. By the time we pushed off from the dock, the rain had stopped.
2. Hana had tightened her life jacket before she climbed into the boat.
3. When Coach Duong blew the whistle, the boats had already lined up.
we pushed off from the dockthe boats lined upHana tightened her life jacketCoach Duong blew the whistlethe rain stoppedHana climbed into the boat
Happened firstHappened second
6.
Write the form of the verb forget that shows which action happened first (two words).

Mateo paddled with bare hands at practice because he   his gloves at home.

7.
Write the form of the verb lift that shows which action happened first (two words).

By the time the first race began, the morning fog  .

8.
Coach Duong wants to say that the team finished its warm-up before the race started. Which sentence says this correctly?
  • A. The team is finishing its warm-up before the race started.
  • B. The team has finished its warm-up before the race started.
  • C. The team will finish its warm-up before the race started.
  • D. The team had finished its warm-up before the race started.

If-sentences

An if-sentence can tell what will happen if something real comes true, or what would happen in an imagined situation.

9.
Match each beginning to the ending that makes sense and uses the right verb form.
  1. If the wind gets too strong,
  2. If I were the drummer,
  3. If we keep our paddles together,
  4. If our boat had wings,
  1. A. the boat will glide in a straight line.
  2. B. we would fly over the finish line.
  3. C. Coach Duong will cancel practice.
  4. D. I would play a faster beat.
10.
This sentence tells what will happen if something real comes true. Write the form of each verb in parentheses.

If we   (finish) in the top two, we   (race) again in the final.

11.
Lucia says, "If I had a bigger drum, everyone would hear the beat." What does Lucia's sentence tell?
  • A. Lucia has a bigger drum than the other teams.
  • B. Lucia will get a bigger drum before Saturday.
  • C. Lucia is imagining a drum she does not have.
  • D. Lucia had a bigger drum at last year's race.
12.
Write one sentence that tells what your team will do if it rains on race day. Then write one sentence that uses had to tell what happened before a race began.

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