UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MINDANAO

Kabacan, North Cotabato

November, 2022

A DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH 9

I. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, 85 % of the students should attain 75%
accomplishments in:
a. identifying the past tense and past perfect tense in short passages;
b. display active participation in grammar quiz; and
c. construct a short story using past tense and past perfect tenses.

II.SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic: Past and Perfect Tense

B. Resource(s): https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/past-perfect-
tense/#:~:text=Past%3A%20The%20verb%20tense%20refers,totally%20completed%
20before%20another%20one.
C. Materials: Laptop, projector, visual aids
D. Online platforms: GoSoapbox.com, Microsoft Word, PDF, PowerPoint Presentation

III. LESSON PROCEDURE

Teachers’ Activity Students’ Activity

A. Preliminaries

1. Greetings
Good morning class! - Good morning, Ma’am!

2. Prayer
May I request everyone to please stand - Amen.
for the prayer.

3. Checking of Attendance
Please say present as I call your name. - Okay, Ma’am!

4. Classroom Standards
- Keep quiet, listen and
Class, what will you do if our class is participate
going on?
- Raise your hand if you
What else? want to talk.

- Yes, Ma’am
Then can I expect that from you?

5. Passing and checking of Assignment - None, Ma’am

Class do you have an assignment?
B. MOTIVATION

Let’s play a game called “What is the past - Yes, ma’am.

tense and the past perfect tense of the verb?”
I will flash the following verbs in the screen
for 5 seconds, and you will supply the past
tense and the past perfect tense of the verb.
If you want to answer, just raise your hand
and every student with a correct answer will
get 10 points for today’s attendance. Class,
is that understood?

- Students answer the

Flashes verbs for 5 seconds motivation

Very good class! All of the students who got - Hooray!!

the correct answers will have 10 points for
today’s attendance.

- Yes, ma’am!
Did you enjoy the game?

- Very well, based on the game we had - Our topic for today is about
earlier, what do you think is our topic Past and Past Perfect Tenses
today?

- Exactly!

1. ACTIVITY

Now let’s have an activity. Please turn on

your computers.

As you turn on your computer, go to

Chrome and click in the search bar.

Type GoSoapbox.com and press enter.

If you are already in the website, look for - Students follow the
the Join Event option in the upper right instructions
and click it.

As you click it, it will require an access

code. Input the numbers: 200-563-563
Then click proceed to your event.

It will require your name. Type your full

name then add an underscore then type
your year, course, and section.

Example: Jessaine Julliane C.

Serquina_3BSE-A

Once you have already entered the

server, click the quiz entitled “Past and
 Perfect Tense”.

Once I unlock the quiz, you will start

answering it. It is a 9-item quiz and you
will select the option of the correct
answer supplying the correct past tense
and past perfect tenses of the following
sentences. I will give you 8 mins for
answering the quiz. After, all of your
answers will appear here in the screen. If
you have queries, kindly click the option
“I am confused” for me to be informed.

Is everybody in the server now? Are - Yes, ma’am.

there students whose computers haven’t
loaded yet? Is your internet connection
stable?

Okay, are you all ready? - Yes!!

Do you have all the quiz in your screen? - Yes ma’am.

Okay, you may start answering now. - Students answer the quiz.

Time is up!! The quiz is now closed.

2. ANALYSIS

Here are all of your answers.

(Shows the result of the quiz via - Students observe their

Microsoft Excel) answers and compares it to
others.
Let’s analyze random items from the
quiz.

First let’s have item number 1.

Sentence:

Marifer her missing necklace in

her room last night.

What part of speech does this sentence - A verb, ma’am.

lack?

A verb!! Correct!

The options we had earlier was “find” and

“found”. By analyzing the predicate of the
sentence verb + her missing necklace in
her room last night. Meaning to say, the
action is already done. Marifer was
- Found
finished in looking for her necklace. So,
what is the correct verb in the sentence?
Correct- found! Because the event had
already occurred. It was not happening in
the present time.

Another example from the quiz.

The witness before the court

adjourned.

What part of speech that needs to be - A verb

supplied here?

Yes!! Had + verb form in past tense.

The options we had earlier were:

• Had testify
• Had testifying
• Had testified

Okay let us analyze! Based on the

sentence,

First, is it correct to have a “had” + - No, ma’am.

original verb form?

NO! it should be “had” followed by the

verb tense. We cannot put it like “had
speak” or “had draw”.

Therefore option number one is…..

(incorrect).

Let’s proceed to option number two, we

- Yes ma’am.
have had testifying. Okay, did the action
occur in the present time?

The witness before the court

adjourned.
What is the verb in the sentence? - Adjourned
- Past tense because of the -
Okay what verb tense did it use? ed, ma’am.
- No it did not occur in the
Okay so did it occur in the present time? present time.
Therefore, it is wrong to put it “The
witness had testifying before the court
adjourned.” Most especially because you
cannot put “had” which is a past tense
verb + a present tense verb. Number 2
option is incorrect.
What about number option 3

Yes, it is the correct form of past perfect - Yes!! Option no. 3 is correct.
tense that should be applied in the
sentence.

The witness had testified before the court

adjourned.
 Which means that the action is already
done. You should match the past perfect
tense to the past tense of the verb.

3. ABSTRACTION

Alright, who can tell me, what is a past - Past tense is a form of a verb
tense? meaning to say that the action
already happened in the past.
Very good! The past tense or the simple
past is used to describe things that have
already happened. - Students listen in the
discussion.
It is also used to talk about things that
happened or existed before now.

(e.g., earlier, 5 minutes ago, yesterday,

last week, last month, last year)

Wyeth won in the Essay Writing Contest. - Win

What is the verb here? – win

The simple past tense shows that you are

talking about something that has already
happened. It emphasizes that the action
is finished.

You can also use the simple past to talk

about a past state of being, such as the
way someone felt about something. This
is often expressed with the simple past
tense of the verb “to be” and an adjective,
noun, or prepositional phrase.

(e.g., Wyeth’s classmates were glad

about her victory last year.)
(e.g., Wyeth was glad for winning the
Essay Writing Contest.)
- Students actively listen in the
How do we formulate the Simple Past? explanation.

For regular verbs, add -ed to the root

form of the verb (or just -d if the root form
already ends in an e):

(Insert examples: Base form and Simple

Past form of verbs)

For Irregular verbs, things get more

complicated. The simple past tense of
some irregular verbs looks exactly like
the root form:

(Insert examples: Base form and Simple

Past form of Irregular verbs)
For other irregular verbs, including the
verb “to be”, the simple past forms are
more inconsistent:

(Insert examples: Base form and Simple

Past form of Irregular verbs)
Verbs in the simple past tense don’t need
to agree in number with their subjects
(except for the be-verb which we
mentioned earlier).

Joan cleaned the CED16 classroom.

3BSE-A cleaned the CED16 classroom.

Whatever the subject is, it doesn’t have a

rule in the simple past tense.

Simple past verbs don’t have singular or

plural forms.

What about Past Perfect Tense? Who
can tell me the definition of a Past Perfect
Tense?
Very good! It describes a complete
activity in the past.
- A past perfect tense has two
verbs.
- A past tense described a full
activity in the past.

It is also used to emphasize an action

that was completed before another
action took place.

(e.g., Aliana had finished the assignment - Students listen actively.

before you arrived.)

• Koko had taken the pill before the

team reached him.
• First: He took the pill.
• Next: The team reached him.

• I had called the police before I

investigated the noise in the garden.

• First: I called the police.

• Next: I Investigated the noise.

• The weather changed, but the team

had planned its next move.
• First: The team planned.
• Next: The weather changed.

Now, how do you formulate the Past

Perfect Tense?
(Insert formula on screen)

It doesn’t matter if the subject is

singular or plural; the formula doesn’t
change.

(e.g., I had jumped.)

If it’s a regular verb, the past participle

is the same as the simple past tense.

Add -ed to most verbs.

• Jump- jumped
• Paint- painted

If a verb of one syllable ends with a

consonant-vowel-consonant, double
the final consonant and add -ed.
• Chat- chatted
• Stop- stopped

If the final consonant is “w”,”x”,”y”,

don’t double it:
• Sew- sewed
• Play- played
• Fix- fixed
- Students listen to the lecture.
If the last syllable of a longer verb is
stressed and ends like this
(consonant-vowel-consonant),
double the last consonant and add -
ed.
• Incur- incurred
• Prefer- preferred

If the first syllable of a longer verb is

stressed and the verb ends like this
(consonant-vowel-consonant), just
add -ed.
• Open- opened
• Enter- entered
• Swallow- swallowed

If the verb ends with “e” just add “d”.

• Thrive- thrived
• Guzzle- guzzled

If the verb ends with (consonant +

“y”), change the “y” to an “I” then add
“ed”.
• Cry- cried
• Fry- fried

Forming the Past Participle of

Irregular verbs.

If it’s an irregular verb, the past

participle is formed in all sorts of
 different ways. You just have to learn
them.

Examples:
• Arise- arisen
• Catch- caught
• Choose- chosen
• Know- known

Also, for the negatives, you will

commonly see “hadn’t” instead of
“had not”.

Here are Common Irregular Verbs in

the Past Perfect Tense. Please take
note of these.

(Insert picture of Irregular Verbs)

Take note: the past participle of “to

get” is gotten in American English. In
British English, the past participle is
“got”.

Here are also reminders in

Using Contractions

Don’t forget that in speech and writing

especially informal writing, you will
encounter the following contractions
• I had- I’d
• You had- You’d
• He had- he’d
• She had- she’d
• It had- it’d
• We had- we’d
• They had- they’d

Now after learning all about simple

past and past perfect tenses what do
you think is the difference of the two?
(Answer: When you’re talking about
some point in the past and want to
reference an event that happened
even earlier, using the past perfect
allows you to convey the sequence of
events. It is also clearer and more
specific).
- When you’re talking about
some point in the past and
want to reference an event
that happened even earlier,
using the past perfect allows
you to convey the sequence
of events. It is also clearer
and more specific

Any questions?

Okay, very good!

4. APPLICATION

Now, I want you to get ¼ sheet of paper.

You will be reading 3 passages. In the
passages, you are going to supply the
 correct past tense form and past perfect
tense form of the red-bolded verbs. Per
passage, you are going to answer it for 3
minutes, then I will move it to the next
passage. - Students follow the
instructions.
Are my instructions clear?

Okay, you may now start answering.

- Students answer the quiz.
(Flashes students a PDF of the quiz)

IV. EVALUATION

Direction:

In your computers, go to Microsoft Word. I want you to form in 4 groups. In each

group, you are tasked to write a very simple short story with Past Tense and Past
Perfect Verb Tenses. Minimum characters are 100 and maximum is 400. Save it
in Documents and input your filename: Group Number_Section_Short Story (e.g.,
Group 1_3BSE-A_Short Story. After that, you will exchange your output with other
groups and they will check the Verb Tenses present in your short story. Group 1
and 2 will check each other’s output, Group 3 and 4 will check each other’s output.

V. ASSIGNMENT

In a short bond paper, write a 300-word narrative of “How my New Year’s Eve
Went” using past tense and past perfect tense verbs. Submit the assignment
through my email: jjcserquina@usm.edu.ph Deadline of submission is on
Thursday.

Format: Arial, 12, 1.5 margin on left, 1.2 margin on top, right, and bottom.

Prepared by:

JESSANE SERQUINA
3BSE-A (English)

Approved by:

AUGUSTUS VENANCIO BORJE RAMOS

Course Professor