The lesson plan taught seventh graders about using the simple past tense correctly. The lesson included three activities - writing about what they did last week, conjugating regular verbs into their past tense forms, and classifying regular verbs by their "-ed" pronunciation. The teacher found the lesson very successful, as the students were fully engaged through the use of a PowerPoint presentation and working in pairs/groups. All of the lesson objectives were achieved.

1. Simple Past Tense
T. Carlos Zeledón B.
II CO - 2013

2. LESSON PLAN
Materials: Sheet of papers, markets, board, PPT, Computer, TV
Goal/Aim: Use the Simple Past Tense correctly to express activities
they did in the past.
The students will be able to:
a. Classify verbs between regular and irregular verbs.
b. Write the past form of some verbs.
c. Identify the –ed pronunciation of regular verbs.
d. Write affirmative sentences using the Simple Past Tense.
Teacher: Mr. Zeledón
Seventh Grade
Date: July 16, 2013
Topic: Simple Past

4. Activity #1
What did you do last week?
Write down four examples about it.

5. I went to the beach.
I saw a movie with
my family.
I ate different
snacks.
I traveled to
another country.

6. Do you remember how to make
affirmative sentences using the
Simple Past Tense?

7. Activity #2
Write down the past tense of the
following verbs:

8. Regular Verb Past Tense Regular Verb Past Tense
be blow
break choose
come do
drink drive
eat forgive
get go
grow know
run see
sing speak
swim take
write understand

9. Regular Verb Past Tense Regular Verb Past Tense
be was/were blow blew
break broke choose chose
come came do did
drink drank drive drove
eat ate forgive forgave
get got go went
grow grew know knew
run run see saw
sing sang speak Spoke
swim swam take took
write wrote understand understood

10. Activity #3
Classify the following regular verbs
according to their pronunciation

11. Verb /t/ /d/ /ed/
Informed
Declared
Demonstrated
Locked
Played
Stopped
Washed
Cleaned
Traveled
Allowed

12. Verb /t/ /d/ /ed/
Informed x
Declared x
Demonstrated x
Locked x
Played x
Stopped x
Washed x
Cleaned x
Traveled x
Allowed x

13. Do you remember how to
identify the pronunciation of the
regular verbs?

14. Reflection
This class was one of the best classes I could teach in this institution. I
consider it as one of the best because everything, I had planned for it, was
covered. My students from seventh grade are a little bit noisy and
outgoing. It is very difficult to catch their attention but in this class
everything was different. I had a 40 minutes class to teach and reinforce
Simple Past Tense and I decided to use a PPT in order to catch their
attention; it works perfectly. I have to accept that at the beginning they
were not paying attention too much but when they realized I did not use
the blackboard to give them instructions and that everything was on the
presentation; they enjoyed and started paying attention. They also
participated a lot and because I let them working in pairs and trios they
were very happy. Finally, the objectives of this class were achieved and
the activities were covered. My mentor teacher was also very happy
because I could work with the group very well. She was also happy