This is an inductive approach of teaching simple past tense in English grammar. it is prepared by my classmates : Bushra, fatima and Nida

1. DESIGNING TASK ON
SIMPLE PAST TENSE
PREPARED AND PRESENTED BY:
BUSHRA AHMAD (16ETM05)
FATIMA ZEHRA NIZAMI (16ETM06)
NIDA IQBAL (16ETM09)
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2. CONTENTS
1. PARAMETERS
2. TEACHING MATERIALS
3. PRE-TEACHING
1. PRESENTATION
4. WHILE-TEACHING
1. ISOLATION
2. EXPLANATION
3. PRACTICE
5. POST-TEACHING
1. TESTING
2. SUM UP
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3. PARAMETERS
• AREA: Grammar
• TOPIC: Simple Past Tense
• APPROACH: Inductive
• LEARNERS’ LEVEL: Pre-intermediate
• TIME:
• SKILLS: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
• OBJECTIVES: To familiarise learners with Simple Past
Tense, its structure and use.
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4. TEACHING MATERIALS
• Authentic materials:
• News clip
• Blah blah
• Students worksheet
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5. STAGE: PRE-TEACHING
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6. PRESENTATION
• ACTIVITY 1: Write a short paragraph on how you spent the
day yesterday.
• ACTIVITY 2: Listen to your classmate read out his/her
paragraph and ask questions,
• such as on routine, breakfast, study plans, games, homework, etc.
• ACTIVITY 3: Read the news clip carefully and underline all
the Verbs you can find.
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7. ACTIVITY 3-
NEWS CLIP
Source: THE HINDU,
NOVEMBER 15, 2017.
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8. STAGE: WHILE TEACHING
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9. ISOLATION
• ACTIVITY 4: From the underlined Verbs, pick out the ones
that are in Simple Past Tense.
• CROSS-CHECKING
• ELICITING RESPONSES ABOUT THE USE OF SIMPLE
PAST TENSE
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10. EXPLANATION
• Structure of Simple Past Tense
• Rules of use
• Provide list of irregular verbs
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11. PRACTICE
• ACTIVITY 5: Read the given text and convert it into
Simple Past Tense.
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12. STAGE: POST-TEACHING
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13. TESTING
• ACTIVITY 6: Read the given dialogue between..
Identify and correct the errors.
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14. SUM UP
• SUM UP
• ACTIVITY 7 (Homework): Write a paragraph on what you
learned today in class.
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15. THANK YOU
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