Students can tell me loads about other people, but they don’t know how to transfer that to talking about themselves. Right? This is the outline for most comprehensible input stories. However, one of the areas of teaching with comprehensible input where I struggle is the idea that almost everything we teach is in the third person.
We can teach past tense in Spanish much earlier than a traditional curriculum. The good thing about teaching with comprehensible input is that we don’t really worry about when we teach the various tenses. Encourage them to have little conversations if they discover anything interesting.įor more worksheets and tips on how to do this exercise, see the complete Find Someone Who post. Then they should get up and mingle and complete their sheets. Go through each question and elicit what form the past tense question should take. Give each student a copy of the Past Simple – Find Someone Who worksheet. Even the most reluctant classes eventually get into the swing of it and it’s a great icebreaker too. Get the students to think about their own recent activities and do the same activity in pairs. What did you do?,What did you see?, Where did you go / see it?, Was it good? How much did it cost? When did you go? Now for each piece of information, elicit an accurate question, i.e. Think of a recent activity you did and the questions you would ask to find out about. Past Tense Questions What’s the Question? You can find further instructions and a copy of the Connect 4 game board as well as boards for other grammar structures in the Four in a Row post. This is a Connect 4 style game where two players and a referee attempt to connect four boxes in a row by correctly identifying past simple forms of irregular verbs. There is also an online past simple board game at our sister site. This past simple board game for which you will need a dice and counters, is also good for practising past simple time expressions such as last week, three days ago, when I was on holiday in France, etc.įor more English grammar board games see the grammar games section. Put students in pairs and challenge them to tell their partners about their backwards day. For example, I went to sleep, I read my book, I went to bed, I cleaned my teeth, I drank some cocoa, etc. Tell students what you did on the previous day, but order the events backwards. This is good for a quick, fun review of the past simple. For example I went to America last week or yesterday was my birthday, etc. You might want to set up the story by giving an initial prompt. Each card is removed as it is being used. If the student is not sure of the past tense, they can turn over the card to check. They should now take it in turns to make a story by adding sentences using the verb which is facing up. When all the decks are complete get the groups to place the deck face up on the deck. Monitor the groups during this time and if a card has the incorrect form of the verb on the back, put a line through it and tell them to try again. Optional first step – Give small groups of students a set of the verb cards and ask them to write the past tense form of each verb on the back of the card. If you’re teaching online you can use this random verb generator. Use the handy set of 50 Verb Cards to practise making past tense stories. There’s also instructions and tips on how to quickly produce your own puzzles. On our Crosswords Page, you will find printable crosswords for a variety of grammar structures including one for past simple irregular verbs. See the Tic Tac Toe post for more detailed information. Teams now try to win the game by making sentences which must use the correct past form of the verb in play. Tic Tac Toeĭraw a tic tac toe grid and write the infinitive of an irregular verb in each square.
Now ask students to tell their partners about the previous day’s activities. Then in the yesterday section write a similar statement but eliciting the past tense form.įor breakfast, I ate cornflakes and drank coffee
In the usually section, write some typical daily activities. Write Usually at the top of one section and Yesterday on the top of the second. Have students discuss the question with their neighbours and then ask (some of) them to share the details with the class. whatdidyoudoattheweekend? Repeat it if neccessary until most students have parsed the question. Regular and Irregular Forms Letter Dictationĭictate a question, such as What did you do at the weekend?, letter by letter, i.e. This time eliciting and using there was and there were. We do the activity which requires the use of there is and there are and then later in the class, when everything has been packed away, I ask them to again try to recall all the items they had seen. I often use the memory game Kim’s game as an introduction to the past tense. You can find online past simple exercises and activities at our teaching-online focused site.
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