A Vital Tool for learning

I. Objectives:

1. To revise the use of  the Past Simple Tense, to repeat regular and irregular verbs.
2. To practice all kinds of activities: listening, reading, writing and speaking.
3. To increase the students” interest to the English language.

II. Supporting Materials: Slide presentation, pictures, flashcards

III. Procedure

1. Greeting

(Presentation, slide 1,2); Welcome to our English lesson! 

Teacher: Today we are going to repeat the Past Simple Tense. We will sing a song in the whole class, play and have fun. Let us start!

2. Picture Recognition

(Presentation, slide 3)

watch paint

call play

water wash

study read

3. Review

(Presentation, slide 4).

Teacher: Let us read the regular verbs together in the Past Simple. There are 2 columns of the verbs in the slide.

The children read the regular verbs first. They read in turn and repeat  every pair of the verbs in chorus.

watched watered

washed painted

called studied

played read

4. Review (irregular verbs)

(Presentation, slide 5).

Teacher: Ok! Now students, you have just known how to make the regular verbs and now I want to know how you are going to make the irregular verbs. Here given a list of the irregular verbs, all of them look at the board and repeat after me together.

See saw

go went

swim swam

speak spoke

sing sang

become became

grow grew

give gave

sleep slept

sing sang

5. Using the verbs in the Past Simple in  sentences

(Presentation, slide 6) 

Teacher: Now look at this exercise. You must complete the sentences. The verb is given in the present but you have to give it in the past form.

• My mother ________ (give) me 20 dollars yesterday.

• My granny ______ (grow) flowers last spring.

• I ______( sleep) very well last night.

• Mohammed _____ (sing) very well during the party last Monday.

• My mother ______(go) to China and _____(eat) strange food.

6. Reading and writing comprehension

(Presentation, slide 7) 

Teacher: Oh, I am proud of you, thank you. Just now we have a dialogue. We will practice more. Boys you have to read your part and girls you do the same. After that try to answer the questions due to the conversation.

Boys: Hello Girls! Where did you go last night?

• Girls: Oh, we went to the cinema!

• Boys: What film did you see?

• Girls: We saw “Harry Potter III.”

• Boys: Was it nice?

• Girls: It was fantastic!

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• Where did the girls go last night?

• What film did they see?

• How was the movie?

Questions and Answer match

(Presentation, slide 8) 

1. Did you do any interesting last week? a. We left at half past five

2. What did you wear yesterday? b. I ate steak with pasta.

3. What time did you leave school? c. I went to my aunt’s house.

4. Where were you last week? d. Yes I did, I sang and we had barbeque

5. What did you eat for dinner? e. I wore a hat

7. Game 1. 

(Presentation, slide 9) 

• Teacher: Let us play Millionaire’s Game. The class is divided into 3 groups. Discuss a competition between the 3 groups. Each representative must answer the question per category and gathers money for the group

Game 2.

Come to me and make a circle. I will say the verbs. If the verb is  in the Past Simple you must jump, if it is in the Present Simple you must stand still. (then we may change jumping
into clapping hands,turning around, etc.)

IV. Evaluation

• So when can we use the Past Form of the verb?

• How many categories of verbs are there in English?

• Can you give an example? Regular verb? Irregular verb?

• Do you think its important to learn English? Why?

• Can it help you in the future?

9. Hometask

(Presentation, slide 10).

Teacher: Make a dialogue using the past form of the verb.

10. The end of the lesson

Teacher: Thank you for your work, children!  I think you have done a lot and very well today. Did you like the lesson?