Teaching simple past tense

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) 1

2. CONTENTS PARAMETERS TEACHING MATERIALS PRE-TEACHING PRESENTATION WHILE-TEACHING ISOLATION EXPLANATION PRACTICE POST-TEACHING TESTING SUM UP 2

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. 3

4. TEACHING MATERIALS Authentic materials: News clip Blah blah Students worksheet 4

5. STAGE: PRE-TEACHING 5

6. PRESENTATION ACTIVITY 1: Write a short paragraph on how you spent the day yesterday. ACTIVITY 2: Listen to your classmate read out hi s/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. 6

7. ACTIVITY 3- NEWS CLIP Source: THE HINDU, NOVEMBER 15, 2017. 7

8. STAGE: WHILE TEACHING 8

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 9

10. EXPLANATION Structure of Simple Past Tense Rules of use Provide list of irregular verbs 10

11. PRACTICE ACTIVITY 5: Read the given text and convert it into Simple Past Tense. 11

12. STAGE: POST-TEACHING 12

13. TESTING ACTIVITY 6: Read the given dialogue between.. Identify and correct the errors. 13

14. SUM UP SUM UP ACTIVITY 7 (Homework): Write a paragraph on what you learned today in class. 14

15. THANK YOU 15