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DESIGNING TASK ON
SIMPLE PAST TENSE
PREPARED AND PRESENTED BY:

BUSHRA AHMAD (16ETM05)

FATIMA ZEHRA NIZAMI (16ETM06)
NIDA IQBAL (16ETM09)
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CONTENTS
1. PARAMETERS
2. TEACHING MATERIALS
3. PRE-TEACHING
1. PRESENTATION
4. WHILE-TEACHING
1. ISOLATION
2. EXPLANATION
3. PRACTICE
5. POST-TEACHING
1. TESTING
2. SUM UP
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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.

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TEACHING MATERIALS

• Authentic materials:
• News clip
• Blah blah

• Students worksheet
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STAGE: PRE-TEACHING
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PRESENTATION

• ACTIVITY 1: Write a short paragraph on how you spent the

day yesterday.

• ACTIVITY 2: Listen to your classmate read out his/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.
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ACTIVITY 3-
NEWS CLIP

Source: THE HINDU,

NOVEMBER 15, 2017.
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STAGE: WHILE TEACHING

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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
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EXPLANATION

• Structure of Simple Past Tense

• Rules of use

• Provide list of irregular verbs

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PRACTICE

• ACTIVITY 5: Read the given text and convert it into

Simple Past Tense.
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STAGE: POST-TEACHING
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TESTING

• ACTIVITY 6: Read the given dialogue between..

Identify and correct the errors.
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SUM UP

• SUM UP

• ACTIVITY 7 (Homework): Write a paragraph on what you

learned today in class.
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THANK YOU