Simple past tense for negative,affirmative and interrogative sentences
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To introduce and give practice in using the past tense for negative,affirmative, and interrogative sentences on the topic of talking about school memories.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide listening practice about school memories.
Procedure (36-52 minutes)
Ask them to talk about their school life and try to get some words which be necessary for them to do the next task.
Ss will listen to three people and try to catch what they say for general idea.It isn't important whether they can match or not.After that,i will play the track again and Ss will do the second matching part.
T will ask the Ss if the text is about past or present and ask them why.T expects students to answer that they heard specific past forms like 'taught,did'.
T will ask the Ss to come to the board and write the second form of the verbs in the Grammar part 1 and part 2 .
Teacher will show the handout to the class and give the instructions.After that teacher gives the students the transcript of the recordings . Ss will analyse the TL forms in the text.T will clarify anything if there is still a problem.While the students are on the task the teacher monitors them by walking behind the students.
T will stick some papers on the board.On the papers there are some suffixes -d,-ed and , -ied.t will give clear and simple instructions.Each students will write a verb under the related paper.Following this activity,teacher will give students set of verbs who will be in groups of three and let them to decide if the verbs are regular or irregular and other group of three will check the activity.
Teacher will write the positive,negative and questions forms of the sentences on the board and give an example and teacher will ask CCQ like' what comes after subject?)
T will give the student a list of sentences related to the topic , the students will walk around the class and ask each other yes/no questions to get the answer.Ss will practice the TL.
If T has a spare time at the end of the lesson, T will give students a handout and ask them to put the verbs in the simple past tense.