The document provides a lesson plan for a 7th grade English class on using simple past tense verbs. The lesson plan includes objectives, subject matter, teacher and student activities, and an assessment. Students will review past tense verb forms, analyze past tense verbs in a short story, do group activities creating past tense stories, and complete an assessment with exercises using was/were and writing in past tense. The assignment is for students to write a one-week journal entry using simple past verbs.

1. LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH 7
Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of how Philippine Literature under the Period of
Emergence and other text types through using different reading, listening, and viewing strategies, word
relationships and associations, direct/reported speech, passive/active voice, simple past and past perfect tenses,
and sentence connectors; employing the appropriate oral language and stance in informative speech forms to
express ideas, opinions, feelings and emotions; serve as a tools to assert one’s identity in a diverse society.
Performance Standard: The learner proficiently participates in a simple debate about asserting identity in a
diverse society.
Learning Competency: Use simple past tenses correctly in varied contexts EN7G-III-h-3
I. Objectives At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to
a. change the verbs from present tense to past tense form;
b. tell about actions and events in the past;
c. use past tense correctly in varied contexts such as
writing a narrative and journal entry and
d. share ones characteristic or ability that had been
influenced by the past experiences.
II. Subject Matter
Learning Resources
Simple Past Tense
Pliant like a the Bamboo by I.V Mallari
English LM 7, power point presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-1B6jO1koQ
Teacher’s Activity
Preliminaries
a. Greetings
b. Prayer
c. Checking of Attendance
d. Classroom Rules & Regulations
e. Review of Previous Lesson
Before we proceed to our next lesson, let’s have first
a review of our previous lesson?
Last time, we discuss about Passive and Active
Voice. Again, what is an Active Voice? How about
Passive Voice?
Give me example of a sentence in Active Voice.
Passive Voice.
f. Motivation
Are you familiar with these pictures? Tell something about
each picture.
1st Picture: The Spaniards came to our country.
2nd Picture: Lapu-lapu killed Magellan during their encounter in
Cebu, Mactan.
3rd Picture: Japanese Soldiers attacked the Philippines.
4th Picture: Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941.
All these events happened in the PAST. It has something to
do with our topic for today.
Are you ready for our next lesson today?
Our lesson for today is about Simple Past Tense of Verbs. Our
target learning competencies are the following
a. change the verbs from present tense to past tense
form;
Student’s Activity/Response
(The students will greet their teacher and their classmates)
(One from the students will lead the prayer.)
(The class monitor will tell who are absent.)
In Active voice, the subject is the doer or the one that
performs the action.
In Passive voice, the subject is the receiver of the
action.
(The student will give a sentence in Active Voice as well as in
Passive Voice)
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2. b. tell about actions and events in the past;
c. use past tense correctly in varied contexts such as
writing a narrative and journal entry and
d. share ones characteristic or ability that has been
influenced by the past experiences.
III. Lesson Proper
A. Listening Activity
This time, we will view a short story entitled “Pliant like a
Bamboo” by I.V. Mallari. The story tells about the mango
tree and the bamboo tree both argued as to whom is the
strongest. Who do you think is the strongest, the mango
tree or the bamboo tree?
Comprehension Questions:
1. Who came to Philippines and dominated for more
than three hundred years?
2. Who came after the Spaniards?
3. How will you describe the Japanese?
4. If you will become one of the trees in the story, who
will you choose to be, why?
5. As a Filipino, will you consider yourself like a
bamboo, why? Why not?
6. What specific characteristic are you proud of that
has been influenced by your past experiences?
B. Analysis
The teacher will distribute a copy of the story to the students.
The students will point out the verbs that they can see in the
story. The teacher will ask the students to identify the tense of
the verb and write it on the board.
What is the form of the verb?
What have you notice to the verb when the action is done in
the past?
Very Good. That’s right!
*During the class discussion, the teacher will slightly
raise her hand to encourage my students to stand up and
answer the questions.
VERBS come in three tenses, Past, Present and Future.
*The teacher reviewed to the students the part of speech.
Simple Past Tense is used to describe things that have
already happened. It is used to talk about things that
happened or existed before now.
These can be in terms of:
 events in the past that are now finished
 situation in the past
 a series of actions in the past
• Verbs used are either regular or irregular verbs. To form
the regular verb, add either d, or ed to the verb.
I think, the Mango tree is the strongest because I it has a big
trunk and deep roots.
For me, Bamboo tree is the strongest because it just swayed as
the strong wind blows.
The Spaniards.
Americans
Rude, Relentless, Cruel
I would choose to be a Bamboo because like bamboo I want to be
strong.
Yes, I consider myself like a Bamboo because we are strong no
matter what problem we encounter.
Example: One of the characteristics I am proud of is being Brave.
I became a brave person when my Mom left us to go abroad to
work in order support our family. As an eldest sister, I want to
show to my younger brothers that we need to be brave.
Present Form Past Form
It is in present tense/ past tense.
The verb changes. When the action done in the past, there’s -d or
–ed in the verb.
Take a look at the following examples:
1. They called upon the wind to make the decision.
2. The Spaniards dominated the Philippines for more than three
hundred years.
3. The Filipinos learned to bow his head low, to “cooperate” with
the Japanese.
4. The wind blew the hardest.
5. The mango tree fast. Stood
6. The American took place of the Spaniards.
The Filipinos survived difficulties in the past.
I lived in Cebu for 10 years. (I don’t live their anymore).
The Filipinos fought for their freedom, built their country, and
stood on their own.

3. Regular verbs + d Regular verbs + ed
dance + d = danced walk + ed = walked
combine + d = combined paint + ed =painted
love + d = loved look + ed = looked
use + d = used play + ed = played
smile + d = smiled clean + ed = cleaned
file + d =filed brush + ed = brushed
slice + d = sliced touch + ed = touched
live + d = lived climb + ed = climbed
retire + d = retired spray + ed = sprayed
race + d = raced print + ed = printed
To form the irregular verb; make some changes in the spelling
particularly the vowels
Present Past
go went
shake shook
strike struck
buy bought
bite bit
fly flew
run ran
choose chose
speak spoke
take took
• Be verbs, is and are, when used in the past
tense become was and were. Was is used
when the subject is singular. On the other
hand, were is used when the subject is two or
more.
Examples:
Present tense Past tense
She is a grade 7 student. She was a grade 7 student.
You are an excellent
dancer.
You were an excellent dancer

4. Do not forget that time markers are also used in the
simple past tense.
Time markers help us to understand when things have
happened. Therefore, in order to understand the meaning of
simple past tense.
Examples:
Present Form Past Form
I write a letter today. I wrote a letter yesterday.
The boy rides his bicycle
every day.
The boy rode his bicycle a few
minutes ago.
Baby Tina shakes the toy
frequently.
Baby Tina shook the toy just
an hour ago.
Terry goes to the cinema
alone now.
Terry went to the cinema
alone last night.
Other time markers:
last year ago
last Tuesday in 1985
Last month this morning
last march this afternoon
C. Abstraction
Do you have any questions regarding our lesson? Okay! Let’s
proceed.
1. When do we used Simple Past Tense?
2. How do we form simple past tense of verb?
3. What are examples of time markers that could help us
understand that things already happened in the past?
D. Application
Group Activity:
Reminders: In doing the group activity, please observe
the proper minimum health protocol. The teacher will
give the set of rules in doing the tasks.
Students will be grouped into six. Each group will have one
picture which they will be using in make a short story that
happened in the past using simple past tense of the verbs.
The students will be given 10 minutes to do the task. After
that, one from the group member will tell the story to the class.
IV. Assessment
A. Give the past form of the verb in the parenthesis.
Write your answer on your paper.
1. Last year, I (go) to Davao on a
holiday.
2. I (visit) lots of interesting places.
We use the Simple Past Tense to talk about actions happened in
the past.
We add –d or ed to form past tense in regular verbs, and we
make changes in spelling in irregular verbs.
last year, yesterday, last month, ago, this afternoon, last march
Group 1 Group 2
Group 3 Group 4
Group 5 Group 6

5. 3. In the morning, we (walk) in the streets
of Vigan.
4. We (see) some beautiful
rainbows.
5. It (do) not rain a lot.
B. Use the be verbs, was and were to complete the
sentences.
1. I ______ hungry.
2. You _________in Australia last year.
3. She _______not there.
4. Charlie Chaplin ______ a famous actor.
5. Lisa and James ______ at home.
C. Write a short narrative of what you did on weekends
using simple past form of the verbs.
Last Saturday, I _________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Yesterday___________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
V. Assignment
Compose a one week journal entry with the use
of simple past of the verb.
Prepared by:
NELISSA PEARL S. COLOMA
English Teacher
Checked by:
JESSIE S. PIDO, PhD
Principal II