Teaching Grammar in English 7

I. Objective:
At the end of the discussion, the students must have:
a. EN7G- III-h-3 Use the past and past perfect tenses correctly in varied contexts.

II. Subject Matter

a. Topic: Forming the Simple Past tense of the Verb
b. References: https://byjus.com/english/simple-past-tense/#:~:text=The%20Simple
%20Past%20Tense%20The%20simple%20past%20tense%2C,%E2%80%98d
%E2%80%99%20to%20the%20end%20of%20the%20base%20verb.
https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/simple-past-tense/
#:~:text=Definition%20of%20the%20simple%20past,action%20duration%20is%20not
%20important.
C. Materials: PPT
II. Procedure

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

A. Pre-Activity
 Preliminaries
Teacher: Good morning class! Student’s: Good morning Ma’am

How’s your day so far? Good Ma’am

 Prayer Jenny will stand and lead the prayer

 Checking of Attendance Alberto reports the attendance for today

 Cleanliness of the room The students group themselves to clean the

room
 AWAD The reporter for today presents his/her
AWAD
 Teacher: So class we are going to discuss
about the Simple past tense so that you Student’s: Yes Ma’am
will be able to identify whether it is past
tense or not. Before that here’s some
motivation to start our lesson. Are you
ready?

Possible Answers
 Motivation
 Accepted
 Admired
 Accepted
 Advised
 Admired
 Jumped
 Advised
 Matched
 Annoying
 Jumped
 Matched
 Watching

 The teacher presents words and

students will identify if it is past tense
or not. If the verb is past tense, raise
the green flag and if not past tense,
raise red flag.

Green Flag- Past Tense

Red Flag-Not Past Tense
Possible Answer:
- By observing the words with -ed
Motive Question: Ma’am
- How did you identify if it is a past tense?

B. Lesson Proper:
 The ‘simple past tense’, is defined as
 “the form of a verb used to describe an
action that happened before the
present time and is no longer
happening. It is usually made by
adding -ed.
Example:
jump jumped
paint painted
ask asked
pass passed
act acted

The simple past is a verb tense that is Students participate actively in class

used to talk about things that discussion by giving their own Simple past
happened. tense sentences.
 I watched tv last week
 She finished her work at six
o’clock
 Two boys played basketball
 They lived in the Spain
 I enrolled to the Pilates course
 Michael studied hard all year

How to formulate the simple past

 For regular verbs add -ed to the
root form of the verb.
Example:
Listen Listened
Push Pushed

 For Irregular verbs, things get

more complicated. The simple
past tense of some irregular
verbs looks exactly like the root
form.
Example:
See Saw
Go Went
C. Post-Activity

 Controlled Practice Possible Answers

 Cried
  The teacher will present 5 sentences  Lived
and students must search/identify the  Used
past tense in each sentence.  Marked
 acted
1. The baby cried in the cradle.
2. I lived in Bangkok for 5 years.
3. I used to play the flute.
4. The teacher marked the Students participate actively in class activity
answer books of students.
5. I acted upon your advice.

 Uncontrolled Practice
Keep the box? Or give the box?
➢ To play, the teacher will
divide the class into two teams. Each team presents their output in front.
➢ The teacher will give 15
minutes and students must
make their own past tense
sentence using the verb
provided. Then, the team must
choose to keep the box, or give
the box to the other team.
 Call
 Work
 Admire
 Enter
 Claim
 Consider
 Inside the ‘Mystery Box’ are either good
points (+1000) or bad points (-1000). The
team at the end of the game with the most
points is the winner. 

Criteria:
Teamwork: 50%
Performance:50%

D. Generalization
Past Tense
 A tense expressing an action that has
happened or a state that previously Students share in class what they have
learned from the discussion
 existed.
 It is associated with certain past time
expression.
 The time of action can be in the recent
past or the distant past and action.
These can be in terms of
 Situation in the past
 Event in the past

Here are some words that helps us identify

past actions.
 Ago, last year, yesterday, a week, the
day before yesterday.
E. Evaluation/quiz
Multiple-choice
1. The old woman ____ some cookies for Possible Answer:
her family.
a. Climbed 1. baked
b. Baked 2. enjoyed
c. Cried 3. brushed
2. We really ____ the game last Sunday. 4. worked
a. Enjoy
5. studied
b. Enjoyed
c. Enjoying
3. Red Riding Hood___ her hair neatly
before walking to the forest.
a. Changed
b. Baked
c. Brushed
d. Looked
4. Alex did not____ last weekend.
a. Working
b. Worked
c. Work
5. I____ English for two years.
a. Studying
b. Studied
c. study

V. Assignment
 Write/create at least 5 sentences in simple past tense