Lesson plan- Simple past tense

MODIFICATION OF PEER’S LESSON PLAN

Hafizah Binti Hajimia

Induction Set

Pre speaking

What did I do just now?

• Drink water

• Talk on the phone

• Move a chair

• Walk around the classroom

• Draw a cat

• Scratch head

• Drink water - You drank water.

• Talk over the phone – You talked over the phone.

• Move a chair – You moved the chair.

• Walk around the classroom – You walked around the classroom.

• Draw a cat – You drew a cat.

• Scratch head – You scratched your head.

presentation

(while speaking)

video

• “Learn past tense verbs! 2”

STEP 1

Adapted from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbA2LeGteME

The Simple Past Tense

Yesterday I went for a swim.

STEP 2

Adapted from : http://www.slideshare.net/rosarioa.slide/the-simple-past-tense?related=1

Affirmative: The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding –d or –ed to the base form of the verb. I worked in a shop last year, I lived in a big house when I was younger.

PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR VERBS

I worked hard last weekend

Simple Past Tense: Irregular verbs

Affirmative:

Irregular past verb forms must be learned because they don’t follow any rule:

Go went

Come came

Buy bought

Drink drank

Eat ate

Find found

See saw

I went to Paris last July

1.To talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the past. You state when it happened using a time adverb (yesterday, last Mont.): “Last year I took my exams”.

2. It can be used to describe events that happened over a period of time in the past but not now: "I lived in Asia for two years."

3. It is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past: "When I was a child we always went to the seaside on bank holidays."

The Simple Past Tense is used

STEP 3

practice

(post speaking)

Adapted from : http://www.codewithc.com/snakes-and-ladders-game-project-c-source-code-project-report/

• I (meet, met) Adam and her sister two days ago.

• They (win,won) the jumping race last year.

• We (played, plays) basketball last year.

• May (buy, bought) a new cassette recorder last month.

• He (fries, fried) a fish yesterday.

• Last night I (go, went) to the cinema.

• Marco (is taking, took) a lot of pictures during his holiday.

• Tom (sees, saw) a new house last month.

• Teresa and Bill (gets, got) married in 1998.

• Last Sunday, we (rides, rode) our bikes in the park.

• Daniel (had, has) many bad dreams last night.

• We (visiting, visited) the museum when we were on holiday.

Answer

• Met • Won • Played • Bought • Fried • Went • Took • Saw • Got • Rode • Had • Visited

Homework

Adapted from : http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6313

ANSWER