Lesson Plan of Simple Past Tense - Interactive Lesson Plan and activities for Simple Past

Topic: Simple Past Tense

Lesson: A Trip to Horsley Hills.

Grade: Primary and Upper primary

Objectives: Able to 

• speak on related topics with guidance.
• talk about interesting places they have visited.
• know and use past tense to describe past events.
• describe the places that they visited.
• talk and describe the famous places near to their places. 

Teaching aids: Video, PowerPoint slides, and task sheet

Preparatory:

• Ask students about their past holiday trips.
• Tell them a few questions like 1. what did they like most during the trip. 2. What did they buy?..etc.
• Then show a picture of the seaside. Then tell them to write what would they like to do at the place? (Ex: swimming, building castles...etc)
• Prepare a mind map.

Presentation:

• Lead students to talk about Horsley Hills.
• Examples: Have you been to Horsley Hills?
• What are the places of interest in Horsley Hills?
• Show a video clip entitled “Horsley Hills Madanapalli Chittoor” 
• Prompt students to talk about what they see in the video clip (Teacher can do this by asking some questions based on the information given in the video clip)

Practice:

• Distribute a task sheet to students and explain the task.
• Play the audio recording. Students listen to the audio.
• Replay the audio recording again and students complete the task.
• Discuss answers with students.
• Download the Task sheet. 

Production:

• Display the table below on the board

• Lead students to recall Hemanth’s trip to Horsley Hills and fill in the details in the table.
• Model the sentence structure orally.
• Example: Last holiday, Hemanth went to Horsley Hills. He visited Galibanda. He experienced strong winds.
• Students work in pairs.
• Distribute a task sheet to each pair.

• Students identify one interesting place they have visited and complete the table.
• Students talk about their experiences in class.

Task 2:

• Write the sentences from the Hemnaths table on the board.
• 1. He went to Horsley Hills. 2. He visited Galibanda, Mini Zoo, and Madanapalli town. 3. He saw beautiful sunrises and sunsets. 4. He bought a guitar. 5. He ate Malaypoori.
• Darg their attention to the words visited, saw, bought, went, and ate.
• Tell them these are all action words and past forms of the root words.
• Write both forms of the action words. (visit- visited, see-saw, go- went, buy- bought, eat- ate...etc)
• Tell them simple past tense is used to describe an action that has taken place in the past and was completed.

• Explain the simple past tense concept and relate it with their last holiday description. (Table 2) 

Task 3:

•  Give a project work to your students.
• Tell them to describe their favorite place, village, or town. 
• Use the below activity to describe the place.