The Past Simple Tense

English Grammar: THE PAST SIMPLE

Olga Tasenyuk

ELT of HC

Moscow 201 7

The Development of the Lesson

1 . Greeting .

2. Warming-up immersion (speech-ex.): What date Is it today?

What day is it today? What season is it now? Do you like it?

Who is absent?

3. Introducing the new Grammar Theme (Past S.)

3.1. PPT (1)

3.2. Practice

3.3. HT

4. A minute for rest

5 . Ending of the lesson. Results. Summary.

THE OBJECTIVES THE AIMS

• introducing THE PAST SIMPLE TENSE

• To develop students’ abilities of reading, translating, writing, listening, memorizing

The Past Simple

• Why is it used? – To speak about actions and events in the past
• What helps us to “see” The Past Simple? – adverbs of time, “time-words”:

yesterday, 2 years/days ago,

last winter/Monday; when I

was a child; in 1998, etc.

The Past Simple

How to form? – Use V 2

Regular verbs – V 1 + ed

Irregular verbs – LEARN !

want – wanted: He wanted to sleep yesterday .

go – went: He went to bed at 10 p.m. yesterday.

Verb “to be” in the Past Simple it is an irregular verb

am

are – were

WAS

Is

We were ill.

I was ill.

He was ill.

The Past Simple Affirmative sentences +

Subject – was/were – /object/ – adverb .

I was at school yesterday .

We were in the park last Sunday .

The past simple: Negative sentences -

was not = wasn’t

were not = weren’t

I was not at school on Sunday – it was closed.

We weren’t in the park last week – we were ill.

The past simple: Questions ?

Was/were – subject …………?

Was he at school on Sunday ? –

No, he wasn’t .

Were you in the park 2 days ago ? –

Yes, we were .

That’s all for today. Now we will pass to PRACTICE . Next time we are going to speak about THE PAST SIMPLE of REGULAR VERBS and then about the PAST SIMPLE of IRREGULAR VERBS. Do you remember?

The Past Simple

How to form? – Use V 2

Regular verbs – V 1 + ed

Irregular verbs – LEARN !

want – wanted: He wanted to sleep yesterday .

go – went: He went to bed at 10 p.m. yesterday.

A MINUTE FOR REST

Take your text-books

Let’s do exercises. Translate into Russian . Fill in WAS/WERE.

Fill in was, were, wasn’t, weren’t.

Take your day-books and write down the home-task:

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ATTENTION AND YOUR WORK GOOD BYE