This document provides details for three English language lessons on describing past events using the past simple tense. [Lesson 1 focuses on introducing irregular past tense verbs and having students practice identifying them when reading a story. Lesson 2 expands on irregular past tense verbs through exercises identifying their present and past forms. Lesson 3 reviews the story and has students speculate on who the murderer was through group activities]. The lessons include listening, reading, speaking and writing activities to reinforce the grammar concepts.

1. ICT – Assignment No 2
Course: 3rd year
Coursebook: New English file – Elementary
Students: Paula Carbajales and Viviana Rodriguez Saracho
Communicative goal: Describing past events
Grammar focus: Past Simple (irregular verbs) - Affirmative
Vocabulary focus: General, blurb
Recycled language: Past simple – verb to be and regular verbs.
LESSON 1
ACTIVATION Time allotted: 5 minutes
I´ll ask students: do you read? Do you prefer novels, textbooks, newspapers, magazines? Do you like mystery
novels?
COMPREHENSION AND CLARIFICATION Time allotted: 20 minutes
I´ll tell students to open their books on page 58.
T: What can you see?
S: A book / Un libro / La parte de atrás de un libro.
T: Good! A blurb. (I’ll write BLURB on the board) Now, take some minutes to read the blurb. (After reading)
When does the story take place? (T will make questions so as to check comprehension).
T: Now we are going to listen to the next part of the story. You can follow the tape with the text in your books.
(Students will listen to the story) Ok. Let’s see... Is there a new character in this part of the story? (We´ll make
questions to check comprehension and elicit sentences in the past tense)
S: Si, Inspector Granger.
T: Good. How do you know?
S: Acá dice “The inspector arrived at about 9.00” / The inspector came in.
T: Good. (I’ll write The inspector came in on the board). What about the rest of the characters? What was their
reaction? Were they talkative or in silence?
J MIX ACTIVITY (to check comprehension) (10 - 15 minutes)
Aim of activity: To check comprehension. To identify different parts of speech.

2. Description: Students will complete a summary of the story.
- The cloze will be corrected with the whole class.
Homework: J CLOZE ACTIVITY
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LESSON 2
ACTIVATION: Time allotted: 5 minutes
T: Good morning! Do you remember the story we read last class?
S: Yes!! The murder! Un crimen!
(T will ask questions about the story)
CLARIFICATION: Time allotted: 20 minutes
T: So all these events happen when? Present, future or past?
S: In the past.
T: very good!
(I’ll write the communicative goal on the board: describing past events) Now, some words are underlined. Can
you tell me which ones? (Students will dictate the words I have to underline.) Good. What type of words are
these? Are they adjectives, nouns or verbs?
S: Verbos / Verbs
T: Ok. That’s excellent. Now, if I follow the rule, the verbs in the past should contain ED. Am I right?
Describing past events
S: Si, inspector came in.
The pero estos no tienen. blurb
T: Good. So what happens to them? Do we add another thing? Do they change? Verbs
Irregular
Nobody spoke.
S: Cambian! Present Past
We slept in separate rooms.
T: Good! That’s because they don’t follow the rules. They are irregular verbs. As they don’t follow the rules,
Come Came
I heard Jeremy’s bedroom door.
they change to indicate past. Now, let’s see if we can make a list irregular verbs here. Their present and past.
For example, came. What’s the present? Sleep Slept
I thought it was Jeremy.
S: read in bed for half an hour. Hear Heard
I Come
Think Thought
T: Good! (I’ll write a list of irregular verbs and how they change in the past. This is how the board will look like).
I got up at 7.15.
Read Read
I had breakfast
Get Got
I took my husband a cup of tea
Have Had
I found him in bed. Take Took
Find Found

3. APPLICATION
Activity #1 Time alloted: 5 minutes.
Name: Complete the text using the Past Simple of these verbs
Type of activity: Pseudo-communicative
J CROSS ACTIVITY (10 minutes)
Aim: To practice irregular verbs in the past .
Description: Students read clues and complete a crossword.
We´ll check the activity all together in the BB.
LESSON 3
ACTIVATION: Time allotted: 10 minutes
T: Who do you think the murderer is? And why?
S: (varied answers)
T will write the answers on the BB.

4. COMPREHENSION AND CLARIFICATION:
Activity #1 Time allotted: 15 minutes
Name: Listen and complete the activity.
Description: Students complete a JQUIZ ACTIVITY by listening to the inspector Granger questioning the rest
of the characters.
Activity #2 Time alloted: 10 minutes
Name: Who murdered Mr Travers?
Type of activity: Communicative
Grouping Scheme: Pairs
Description: By looking at the chart they’ve completed in activity#2, they decide who the murderer is and
account for their answers. Then, they listen and check if they were right.
REFLECTION : J MATCH ACTIVITY Time alloted: 5 minutes
Tick the correct sentence
1. They comed to my house in the evening.
2. Susan found a roll of dollars in the street last week.
3. Carol sleept all night.
4. I had lunch very late yerterday.