This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching the simple past tense in English. It includes an induction set where students provide the past tense form of actions being performed in the present. It then provides examples of regular and irregular past tense verbs. Finally, it includes a practice section where students identify the past tense form of verbs in sentences describing past events.

1. Lesson plan- Simple past tense
MODIFICATION OF PEER’S LESSON
PLAN
Hafizah Binti Hajimia

2. Induction Set
Pre speaking

3. What did I do just now?
• Drink water
• Talk on the phone
• Move a chair
• Walk around the classroom
• Draw a cat
• Scratch head

4. • Drink water - You drank water.
• Talk over the phone – You talked over the
phone.
• Move a chair – You moved the chair.
• Walk around the classroom – You walked
around the classroom.
• Draw a cat – You drew a cat.
• Scratch head – You scratched your head.

5. presentation
(while speaking)

6. video
• “Learn past tense verbs! 2”
STEP 1
Adapted from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbA2LeGteME

7. The Simple Past Tense
Yesterday I went for a swim.
STEP 2
Adapted from : http://www.slideshare.net/rosarioa.slide/the-simple-past-tense?related=1

8. Affirmative:
The past tense of regular verbs is formed by adding –d or –ed to
the base form of the verb. I worked in a shop last year, I lived in
a big house when I was younger.
PAST SIMPLE TENSE: REGULAR VERBS
I worked hard last weekend

9. Simple Past Tense: Irregular verbs
Affirmative:
Irregular past verb forms must be learned because they don’t
follow any rule:
Go went
Come came
Buy bought
Drink drank
Eat ate
Find found
See saw
I went to Paris last July

10. 1.To talk about actions that happened at a specific time in the
past. You state when it happened using a time adverb (yesterday,
last Mont.):
“Last year I took my exams”.
2. It can be used to describe events that happened over a period
of time in the past but not now:
"I lived in Asia for two years."
3. It is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that
took place in the past:
"When I was a child we always went to the seaside on bank holidays."
The Simple Past Tense is used

11. STEP 3

13. practice
(post speaking)

14. Adapted from : http://www.codewithc.com/snakes-and-ladders-game-project-c-source-
code-project-report/

15. • I (meet, met) Adam and her sister two days
ago.
• They (win,won) the jumping race last year.
• We (played, plays) basketball last year.
• May (buy, bought) a new cassette recorder
last month.
• He (fries, fried) a fish yesterday.
• Last night I (go, went) to the cinema.

16. • Marco (is taking, took) a lot of pictures during
his holiday.
• Tom (sees, saw) a new house last month.
• Teresa and Bill (gets, got) married in 1998.
• Last Sunday, we (rides, rode) our bikes in the
park.
• Daniel (had, has) many bad dreams last night.
• We (visiting, visited) the museum when we
were on holiday.

17. Answer
• Met
• Won
• Played
• Bought
• Fried
• Went
• Took
• Saw
• Got
• Rode
• Had
• Visited

18. Homework

19. Adapted from : http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6313

20. ANSWER