Introduction
Institution: English For Everyone
Number of students 12
Average Age: Students between 15 and 20 years old.
Grade: There are not grades because it is a non-formal institution.
Duration: 2 Classes. 2 Hours Each Class.
English learning need: learners need to develop their listening skills. Review of past tenses - Was - Were
Previous knowledge:
- Basic English according to A2 level of English.
- Common English expressions, basic listening skills, usages of basic computer programs.
Web 2.0 tool to develop of activity: WebQuest.
Objective of activity: Learners are going to create a love story based on some cards, learners start to practice by organizing the best story, they need to use Was and Were sentences and also past verbs. They need to complete this task by recording their story on a video, representing the story and using the cards given. There should be included a short representation of this story.
Type of activity: Story Telling
Theme: Past Simple. The simple past expresses an action in the past taking place once, never, several times. It can also be used for actions taking place one after another or in the middle of another action.
Learning Strategies: Collaborative Task Based Learning.
Task
Activity: Create an story by using the prompts given, you should include Past Simple sentences in order to retell what happend.
Organize this short story with classmates and decide which order is the best for you.
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Process
Step 2:
Now you have completed and organized the first step.
Remember
Use
We use the past tense to talk about:
- something that happened once in the past:
I met my wife in 1983.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.
- something that happened again and again in the past:
When I was a boy I walked a mile to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.
- something that was true for some time in the past:
I lived abroad for ten years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.
- we often use phrases with ago with the past tense:
I met my wife a long time ago.
Questions and negatives
We use did to make questions with the past tense:
When did you meet your wife?
Where did you go for your holidays?
Did she play tennis when she was younger?
Did you live abroad?
But look at these questions:
Who discovered penicillin?
Who wrote Don Quixote?
For more on these questions see question forms
We use didn’t (did not) to make negatives with the past tense:
They didn’t go to Spain this year.
We didn’t get home until very late last night.
I didn’t see you yesterday.
| infinitive | irregular past |
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| be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write |
was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote |
Source: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/past-t…
Step 3
Try to organize you story by using the following chart above in order to now which is the right order given by your collaborative group.
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Step 4
Now you have completed this task, Upload a video on youtube representing the story given in step N. 1 by Clicking Here
Do not forget to upload this task in the evaluation process so that you can share knowledge with your teacher.
Evaluation
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Complete the chart with the story using the pictures given. 15 points |
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Group uploaded the video using the right past tense. 20 points |
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Total: 35 Points |
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Credits
You can check more info by following this links.
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/past-t…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htl9dwwvYas
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