The document provides lesson plans for a 6th grade English class focusing on teaching the simple past and past continuous tenses. It includes examples of how to form and use these tenses, practice exercises for students, and a reading assignment. The goal is for students to be able to use the simple past and past continuous to talk about past actions.

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Área: English Asignatura: English Curso: 6th
Fecha: 18 al 24-02 Periodo: I Nº Hor: 12hr Semana: 5
Tema: Simple past and Past continuous.
Indicador Students will be able to use the simple past and past continuous to talk
de Logro about past actions.
Exploración Use the simple past and past continuous to talk about past actions.
Contextualización
Past simple overview:
Pastcontinuousoverview:
EMOCIÓN
Conceptualización

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PAST SIMPLE
 Past simple: to be
Iwas
She was
He was
You were
We were
They were
We often use was/were with there.
Use was to talk about single things.
Use were to talk about more than one thing.
 Past simple: regular and irregular verbs
We use the past simple to talk about actions that happened in the past.
Most verbs have a regular past form. With regular verb forms in the past simple we add –ed to the
infinitive
We use didn´t to form negative verbs and did to form questions.
 Regular Vebs- Spelling rules
When a verb ends in consonant –vowel-consonant, double the final consonant and add –ed: stop 
stopped
When a verb ends in –e, drop the –ed and add –ed: dance  danced
When a verb ends in vowel + y simply add –ed : play played
When a verb ends in consonant + y, change the –y to –I and add –ed: try  tried.
 Irregular verbs:
Some verbs have an irregular form in the affirmative. Here are some common irregular verbs:
Go- went
Do  did
Have  had
PAST CONTINUOUS
 Use the past continuous to describe an activity that continued during a period of time in the
past. Form the past continuous with was or wereand a present participle.

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The car was making a funny sound while they were driving.
 The words when and while are often used in sentences that contrast continuing and completed
actions.
He was talking on the phone when the storm began.
Producción
ACCIÓN

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Modelación
1. Watch the videos in the platform so you can review the past tenses.
2. Read and ask the qustions to the statements.

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Taller
1) Complete answers a-h with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets. Match them to
questions 1-8
a. Yes, I ________ a great time. My friends __________ me some lovely presents. (have, give)
b. No, but I _____________ him an email. (send)
c. They´re fine! I ______________ to them on the phone yesterday. (speak)
d. We ________ each other on our first day at university. We _____________ in the same class.
(meet, be)
e. Yeah, it __________ really nice. We ________ in a café and chatted for hours! (be, sit)
f. I ______________. Can you come here please? (say)
g. I´m so sorry. I ____________ my books at home so I _______back to get them. (leave, go)
h. Not much! I _______________ dinner, and then ___________ a book. (make, read)
1. What did you do last night? _______
2. Why were you late for class this morning? _______
3. How are your parents at the moment? ________
4. Did you have a nice birthday? _______
5. How do you know luisa? ________
6. Did you call pratick about the party? ________
7. Did you have a good time with your sister? _______
8. Sorry? What did you say? _______
2) Complete each statement or questions about driving. Use the past continuous or the simple past
tense.
a. I was not paying attention, and I had an accident.
b. The other driving _______________ (not, stop) at the stop sign, and she __________ (not
wear) a seat belt.
c. He ______________( talk) on a cell phone and his car _____________ (damage) my truck.
d. Who ___________________ (drive) when the accident _________________ (occur)?
e. Where ___________ (be) they _____________(stand) when they _____ (see) the accident?
Bibliografía
EVALUACION
I. Understanding and using grammar (1999). Third edition. Betty SchrampferAzar.
II. The big picture (2011). Santillana Education. S.L Richmond Publishing.
III. Top Notch (2011). Second Edition, Student book. Pearson Education, Inc.