The document provides a lesson plan focused on the simple past tense in English, emphasizing its importance for understanding past actions and their relevance in predicting future events. It includes explanations of regular and irregular verbs, their conjugations, and examples through the fable 'The Lion and the Mouse.' Additionally, it features exercises for learners to practice forming the past tense of verbs.

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For the teachers

2. Simple Past Tense
English 3
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Verbs
Lesson 4

3. Big Question
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Why is learning about past actions
important?

4. Real-Life Link
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Have you ever had an
experience so memorable to
you?
What lesson did you learn
from it?

5. Real-Life Link
It is important to learn from our
experience as this would guide
how we will be in the future.

6. Learning Targets
In this lesson, the learners will do the following:
● Explain the meaning of simple past tense in their own
words.
● Form the past tense of frequently occurring regular
and irregular verbs.
● Use the past tense of frequently occurring regular or
irregular verbs in sentences.
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7. Let’s Learn
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8. Verbs are action words or states of being.
Verbs

9. Actions or conditions may also
indicate time, which refers to
the verb tenses.
Verb Tenses
I prepared my
sunblock since the
weather is hot.

10. I go to the library
every day after
school.
Great! Then I will go
to the library later to
study with you.

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The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop’s Fable
One day, a lion slept in the jungle. A
mouse ran up and down his body,
and this woke him up. He then
roared and frightened the little
mouse. The lion then placed his paw
on the mouse’s tail, picked him up,
and opened his mouth to swallow
the little mouse.

12. “Please forgive me, dear
king,” cried the mouse. “If you
let me go, I will never forget
your kindness, and who
knows, I would be able to
help you someday,” the
mouse added. The lion loved
the idea, so he let him go.

13. Some time later, the lion was
caught in a trap, and the hunters
tied him to a tree. They left him and
started to look for their wagon. Just
then, the mouse passed by and
saw the lion.

14. Without hesitation, the mouse
nibbled and gnawed the ropes that
trapped the king. The lion thanked
the mouse, and they became good
friends.

15. Answer the following questions:
1. Why did the lion let go of the mouse?
2. What happened to the lion?
3. What did the mouse do?
4. What did you learn from the fable?

16. When did the events or actions in the
story take place?

17. The simple past tense
expresses an action that
happened before or
sometime in the past.
I won the school
singing competition
last year.

18. before yesterday a long time ago
last night the other day before
Time Expressions

19. Regular Verbs
Regular verbs are verbs that form their simple past
tense by adding -d or -ed to the base form.
base form of the verb + -d or -ed

20. We add -d to the base form of regular
verbs that end with -e.
save- saved promise-promised
bake - baked smile - smiled
amaze - amazed agree - agreed
Examples

21. inform - informed gather - gathered
laugh - laughed wash - washed
call - called deliver - delivered
Examples
We add -ed to the base form of some
regular verbs that do not end with -e.

22. carry - carried fry - fried
multiply - multiplied hurry - hurried
bury - buried classify - classified
Examples
For verbs ending in -y preceded by a consonant,
we change -y to -i and add -ed.

23. play - played obey - obeyed
delay - delayed sway - swayed
Exemptions: pay - paid, say - said
We add -ed for verbs ending in
-y preceded by a vowel.
Examples

24. drop - dropped skip - skipped
slip - slipped hug - hugged
beg - begged drag - dragged
Examples
For some single syllable verbs ending in consonants,
we double its last letter and add -ed.

25. Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs are verbs that form
their simple past tense differently.
We either change the spelling or
retain their base form.

26. do - did go - went
come - came begin - began
bring - brought buy - bought
Examples
We change the spelling of some irregular
verbs when forming their simple past.

27. choose - chose drink - drank
eat - ate think - thought
teach - taught see - saw
bite - bit win - won
write - wrote tell - told
catch - caught leave - left
grow - grew keep - kept
More Examples

28. Some irregular verbs have the same base form and past form.
cut - cut hurt - hurt
hit - hit set - set
put - put quit - quit
cost - cost read - read
bet - bet let - let
Examples

29. Why is it necessary to
know whether an action
has been done or already
happened in the past?

30. Learning about past actions gives us a better
understanding of the events and helps us predict
what might happen in the future.

31. Let’s Do It
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Complete each sentence with an appropriate verb in
the simple past tense.
Yesterday, I _________ out
the shapes we needed
for decorating our
project.

33. Mom _________ a
bedtime story to me
last night.
Complete each sentence with an appropriate verb in
the simple past tense.

34. We _________ the clean-up
drive of our barangay.
Complete each sentence with an appropriate verb in
the simple past tense.

35. It _________ hard two
nights ago.
Complete each sentence with an appropriate verb in
the simple past tense.

36. My dog _________ the ball
that I threw from afar.
Complete each sentence with an appropriate verb in
the simple past tense.

37. You Can Do It
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1. Julio (tell) ____________ Juan a secret.
1. Sonia (win) ___________ the Science Quiz Bee yesterday.
1. Janina (help) ___________ her mom in the kitchen last
night.
Complete the sentence by changing the verb in
the parenthesis to the simple past tense form.

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4. Last April we (travel) ___________ for 10 hours to see
Mom’s hometown.
4. We (stay) ___________ at a nice hotel in Baguio to
celebrate my birthday last year.
Complete the sentence by changing the verb in
the parenthesis to the simple past tense form.

40. Let’s Connect
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Hey there, little historian!
Let us travel to the past.
Think of any significant event in
the past. Are there any changes in
the world today? Share your
answers with the class.
Remember to use the simple past
tense of verbs.

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It is important to learn about the past
to understand the reason behind the
things we see today.

43. Big Idea
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The simple past tense of verbs helps us
communicate clearly about previous
events and actions.

44. Big Idea
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Learning about the past gives us a better
understanding of the events that are
happening and helps us predict what
might happen in the future.

45. Remember
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● The simple past tense of verbs
expresses an action that happened
in the past.
● Regular verbs are formed by adding
-d or -ed to their base form.

46. Remember
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● Irregular verbs are formed by
changing the spelling. Some
irregular verbs have the same base
form and past form.

47. Remember
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● Time expressions used in the simple
past tense include yesterday, a
while ago, last week, or the other
day.

48. What Have
You Learned?
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Complete the sentences using the correct simple past
tense of the verbs in parenthesis.
1. She was absent, so she (ask) __________ me about
yesterday’s lesson.
2. My cousins (spend) __________ Christmas with us last
year.
3. Casey (buy) __________ her new dress yesterday at that
newly opened mall downtown.

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4. The electric power (go) ___________ down last night due to
heavy rains.
5. The Santos family is our new neighbor. They (move)
___________ here yesterday.
Complete the sentences using the correct simple past
tense of the verbs in parenthesis.

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References
“Past Simple Tense (Simple Past): Definition, Rules and Useful Examples • 7ESL.” 7ESL, April 6, 2020.
https://7esl.com/past-simple-tense/.
“Simple Past Tense.” Grammarly Blog, December 16, 2020. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/simple-past/.
“The Lion and the Mouse from Aesop's Fables.” Accessed June 1, 2022. https://www-
mes.stjohns.k12.fl.us/media/files/2018/07/The-Lion-and-the-Mouse-Gr-1-and-2.pdf.

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