This lesson consists of six activities to help students deductively derive the rules for the pronunciation of the simple past morpheme. Because the simple past of regular verbs is formed in three different ways, adding /ed/, /t/, or /d/, and the orthography suggests that there is only one pronunciation, students often erroneously add the syllable /ed/ to every regular verb.In the main activity, students place words in columns dependong on the last sound in the present tense of the verb falls into one of three categories 1) ending in /t/ or /d/, 2) all other voiced sounds 3) all other voiceless sounds. In the following activity, Ss pronounce the past tense of the verbs out loud with the teacher and then write a simple rule for prounouncing the past tense in each of the three different contexts. Optional warmup and closing activities include speed contests and conversation activities.
- Subject:
- Language Education (ESL)
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Melanie Brooks
- Date Added:
- 10/04/2016