understand how ideas can be expanded and sharpened through careful choice of verbs, elaborated tenses and a range of adverb groups

How Bloomi helps with this

This is a readiness-year topic that builds towards the next NAPLAN year. Bloomi practises it as curriculum mastery, never test drilling.

What this looks like in the classroom

• knowing that the simple present tense is typically used to talk about present states; for example, “He lives in Darwin.” or actions that happen regularly in the present; for example, “He watches television every night.” or that represent “timeless” happenings, in information reports; for example, “Bears hibernate in winter.”
• knowing that there are various ways in English to refer to future time: using the auxiliary “will”; for example, “She will call you tomorrow.”, using the present tense; for example, “Tomorrow, I leave for Hobart.” and using adverbials of time; for example, “She arrives in the morning.”
• using precise verbs; for example, “slice”, “dice”, “fillet” and “segment” rather than general words; for example, “cut”