Universidad Católica de El Salvador. May th, 2014
Facultad de Ciencias y Humanidades
Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Educación con Especialidad en Idioma Inglés.
English Access
Teacher: Gabriela Perez
Topic: Simple Past Tense
Fourth Class, Third Period
WARM UPS:
Warm-up: Title: "wordsearch"; (10 min)
- Ask students to make two groups and stand up, then they are going to make two lines in front of the board. Then, they are given a maker for each group, when the teacher say a verb in simple present, one for each group have to run to the board and circle the verb in simple past. The group who have more correct verbs is going to win.
PRESENTATION:
(Listening and writing
activity; Appendix “B”) (15min)
Title: Who knew? by Pink
-
Students
are going to listen to a song and then, they will write the missing words on
the lyrics.
Note: This is the link to listen the song in YouTube and download it.
GRAMMAR EXPLANATION:
- The Simple Past Tense
- Review of regular verbs and introduce Irregular verbs in simple past describing their last weekend, holiday, vacation, etc.
Simple past Tense- Use
When do we use the Simple Past?
For actions that happened in the past
The past simple is the most usual tense for talking about things that happened or have finished before now. Very often we use a word or expression of finished time with this tense. In the following example sentences the expressions of finished time are shown in bold
The simple past tense refers to
a. action which occurred at a specific time in the past
b. completed action
c. past status
Form
- with regular verbs: infinitive + -ed
- with irregular verbs: 2nd column of the table of the irregular verbs
Structure: to make the past simple tense, we use:
past form only
or
auxiliary did + base form
Here you can see examples of the past form and base form for irregular verbs and regular verbs:
Examples:
Affirmative form:
1. She came to Germany two years ago.
2. It rained every day for a week on my vacation.
3. Columbus discovered America in 1492.
4. I played tennis at the weekend.
5. I didn't see you yesterday. |
Negative form:
My mother went not shopping on Saturday
He didn't buy anything.
I didn't know the answer. |
Interrogative form:
Were you in school?
How did you do that?
Did you see the film on TV last night?
Why didn't you do your homework?
|
Other Examples:
I saw a movie yesterday.
I didn't see a play yesterday.
Last year, I traveled to Japan.
Last year, I didn't travel to Korea.
Did you have dinner last night?
She washed her car.
He didn't wash his car.
PRACTICE
ü Controlled practice
ACTIVITY #1 (writing, speaking activity ) (20 min)
Title: How was your childhood?
Ask students to write a 15 lines paragraph about How was your childhood? using the simple past tense.
- Next, ask some of the students to pass to the front to read aloud their paragraph to their classmates.
ü Semi controlled practice
Activity: ( Writing and speaking activity ) ( 10 min)
Fill the Cards
- Ask students to work Pair work. Ask students to make a list of 5 memories from their childhood and that were important for their life. Ask students to put them in order
from most important to least important . Ask them to compare lists with
the partner. Then, they will explain why each memory is important for them.
ü Free practice
Activity : (writing, speaking activity ) (20 min)
Title: What did you do on vacations?
Ask students to work in pairs and create a short conversation about What did you do on vacations?
- Next, ask some of the students to pass to the front to perform the conversation about What did you do on vacations?
Homework:
- Scrambled sentences:
Ask students to work in the appendix "C", exercise B. They have to order the words to create the sentences in simple present to simple past.
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