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Title: Activity Picture, Simple Past, Word Box Fill-in Activity

The Simple Past Tense

The simple past tense is used to talk about activities or situations that began or ended in the past, for example,Julio stayed home yesterday,It rained all night long. Most simple past tense verbs are formed by adding -ed to the verb. Forms of the Simple Past

Language Objective Talk about picture promp ts using the simple past ten se.

Statement: I (you / he / she / it / we / they) worked yesterday. Question: Did I (you / he / she / it / we / they) work yesterday?

Write a sentence under each picture. Use the correct past tense verb from the Data Bank. (One of the words is used twice.) The first one is done for you.

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She listened to music.

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DATA BANK
painted played (2) chased snowed washed cleaned listened studied

SKILL OBJECTIVES: Forming past tense of regular verbs; writing sentences. Write on the board, What did you do yesterday? Ask individual students such questions as,Did you watch TV? What programs did you see? Did you listen to music? etc. Read the explanation of the simple past tense and the forms of the simple past. Have the class look at item 1. Explain that in each item, -ed is added to the verb to form the simple past. Call attention to the Data Bank, then do the nine items orally before having students write the sentences.

Source: Judy DeFilippo and Charles Skidmore, Skill Sharpeners 2 Pearson PHOTOCOPIABLE

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