🐭 Remy Explains Recipe Tenses! 🍳

Remy Explains Recipe Tenses

🐭 Remy Explains Recipe Tenses! 🍳

Salut, mes petits chefs! It’s me, Remy — your favorite rat-turned-chef from Ratatouille! Today, I'm going to teach you the magic words (a.k.a. verb tenses) that you need to cook up a delicious recipe — not just in the kitchen, but in your writing too!

🍴 1. Imperative Tense – The Chef’s Command!

This is the main tense used in recipes. It sounds like you’re giving friendly chef commands!

“Chop the onions.”
“Stir the sauce.”
“Bake for 20 minutes.”

Why? Because you’re telling someone what to do, step-by-step — just like a head chef would!

🕰 2. Present Simple – For Describing What Usually Happens

We sometimes use this to explain what happens during cooking.

“The sauce thickens after 5 minutes.”
“The pasta cooks quickly.”

Why? This is useful when you're explaining what normally happens in a recipe — like a food fact!

🔄 3. Past Simple – When You Talk About What You Did

Sometimes, when you’re telling someone how you made a dish, you use the past.

“I added the garlic after I fried the onions.”
“We baked the bread this morning.”

Why? If you’re writing a story-style recipe or talking about what you did, this is your go-to tense.

🍽 A Little Recipe from Me, Remy!

Mini Ratatouille
1. Slice the zucchini and eggplant. (Imperative)
2. Place the vegetables in a pan. (Imperative)
3. The sauce boils quickly, so watch it! (Present Simple)
4. I made this dish for Linguini last night — and he loved it! (Past Simple)

🧑‍🍳 Let’s Get Cooking… with Grammar! 🍅

Now that Remy has taught us all about the tenses used in recipes, it’s time to put your chef-writing skills to the test!

In this activity, you’ll find some jumbled-up cooking sentences — just like a messy kitchen! 🌀 Your job? Put them in the correct order so the instructions or stories make sense.

But wait! Here’s the twist:
The sentence uses an specific verb tenseimperative (commands), present simple (facts), or past simple (things already done). Can you tell which is it as you unscramble it?

Grab your chef’s hat and your thinking spoon — it’s time to cook up a perfect sentence! 👨‍🍳🐭

Order the sentence

Order the sentence

Put the parts in order to form a sentence. When you think your answer is correct, click on "Check" to check your answer. If you get stuck, click on "Hint" to find out the next correct part.
 

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