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II. OBJECTIVE: To understand and use the past tense, to know the form of the regular and irregular past.
Students will be able to use the past tense to tell about states that happened in the past, and form
questions using the past tense.
II. MOTIVATION: In teaching the past, students will be given the chance to tell about themselves, they
will be given different kinds of activities to help them learn about the past and how to use them in
everyday activities. Some of these activities will be in the form of a game to foster learning and motivate
students.
DAY 1 – Review of some verbs related to present and past tenses to remind students of the form of the
simple past.
1.Questions – Students first will be asked simple questions related to actions that happened in the past
by using certain adverbs. (E.g. yesterday, last night. Last week, etc)
EX. Questions to warm up the class. (1) What did you do after school yesterday? (2) Did you play football
last week? (3) How was the weather yesterday? (4) Did you enjoy your weekend?
(The teacher writes the verbs on the board, the form of the verbs will be marked, so that students will
notice that (-ed) is the marker of the past tense).
(1) I studied math. (2) Yes, I played football last week, or yes I did. (3) It was rainy.
2. Physical Response – Some students will be asked to perform certain activities and after they finish,
their classmates will be asked to tell about the activity they saw.
Student B.: will point out to A. and say (A) walked in the classroom.
Think of a time you were late. Write sentences about what happened; use verbs to tell about the past.
It will be explained to students that (-ed) ending has three different pronunciations:
It will be explained to the students that certain sounds we produce come from our mouth and we call
them (voiceless sounds), but other sounds come from the throat we feel vibration in the neck while we
produce these sounds and we call them (voiced sounds).
((-ed) is pronounced as [t], [d] ,[id] sounds according to the letter comes before it whether it is voiced or
voiceless one).
Student practice producing sounds - The teacher will write a number of letters on the board, and will ask
students to produce these letters loudly while they are putting their fingers on their necks so that they
can feel the vibration on their necks.
Ex. k,s,f,v,n,p,sh,b,etc .
2- Oral practice - The class will be divided into three groups, each group will be representing certain
sound of the three. The results of each group will be written on the board after the time of the game is
up so that the class as a whole will be able to examine the sounds loudly. The teacher will draw a chart
on the board to write every verb in the column it belongs to.
Each group will be asked to write as much number of verbs as it can that ends with the sound it
represents. Then the teacher will ask each group to say its verbs loudly and the teacher will fill each verb
in its column.
[t]
[d]
[id]
wanted
Reached
Spilled
Watched
Needed
3. Teacher input – Teacher will explain that [t], [d], [id], are sounds of (-ed) not markers of the past.
Students will be given an exercise (fill in blanks). On their notebook they have to change the verb in the
brackets and give the correct pronunciation of that verb.
2. Oral practice – At the beginning, the teacher will try to ask about the past form of some irregular
verbs, and in return, the student who knows the answer will raise his/her hand and answer.
(1) What is the past form of go? Buy? Get? See? Etc…
3. Teacher in put - As it was explained so far the past is formed by adding (-ed) to the simple verb, but
there are a lot of verbs do not take (-ed) form in the past tense. We call these verbs irregular verbs
because they don’t follow one pattern. Students will be given a list of irregular verbs to read, and there
will be some activities to help them learn these verbs.
Think and Write – Students will be given a set of examples with underlined verbs, students will be asked
to state whether the underlined verb is in the correct form or not by circling on a (T) true or (F) false
letters.
EX.B. Students will be given a set of verbs they will be asked to put one line under the regular verb and
two lines under the irregular ones.
5. Student practice- Students will be given a puzzle to fill in with the irregular past.
1. Teacher in put- Teacher will explain that we use past tense in questions to ask about
things happened and completed in the past. The teacher also will explain to the students that we use
the past form of (do) which is (did) to ask in the past, and with (did) we use the verb in the simple form,
but when we answer we convert the verb into the past form.
2. Guided oral practice – class will practice by converting teacher’s statements into questions.
3. Summing up – students will be expected to use the past tense form both the regular and irregular
forms, to ask questions in the past, and to know the spellings of the (-ed) ending.
REFERENCES:
3.World of Language 1990 by: Betty G. Gray, Marian Davis, and Nancy Nickel Ragno.