Ivy Waters International Standards · G5.L-01
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Language Acquisition (Second Language)
Your child can naturally alternate between past actions, current situations, and future intentions when speaking or writing in the target language.
In real life
Chatting with a local friend, your child naturally says the equivalent of "Yesterday we visited the waterfall, today we're resting, and tomorrow we'll take the bus north," using three tenses in one breath.
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Ivy Waters International Standards v2.2.0 (2026). Standard G5.L-01: Multi-Tense Linguistic Versatility. https://ivywaters.com/standards/G5.L-01
Ages are the anchor. Grade names are Ivy Waters stage labels for this framework, not a claim about any national school system.
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Ivy Waters International Standards · Version 2.2.0 · 2026 · © 2026 Ivy Waters International. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
