Navigation support documents.reading and grammar_simple past tense
Overview
Navigation support documents are worksheets that list a set of websites with a task created around them aligned to a teaching objective.
These worksheets can guide learners from one website/ webpage to the next asking them to perform certain learning activities using each link in order to achieve the objective.
Reading and grammar
Navigation support document
Skill developed: Reading and grammar using websites
Sub skills developed: simple past tense
Level of the learner: lower intermediate learner, B1.
Learn:
For beginner level:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-reference/past-simple
https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/simple_past_tense.htm
For intermediate level:
https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html
https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-use.html
Practice:
Instructions
- Go to http://www.rong-chang.com/eslread/
- You will see a list of 265 topics on the page. Most of the topics are based on the day to day events and also related to real life activities.
- We’ll do one together. Click topic No 11, A good sandwich.
- Read the passage carefully, about three times.
There are three things you can do if you have a problem. All three are at the beginning of the passage.
- If pronunciation is a problem, play the audio and listen to the right pronunciation
- If you don’t understand the meaning of a word, use the translate option. Several Indian languages like language Malayalam, Marathi, Hindi, Bengali are available.
- If you so like, use the Image option and view the image of a word.
- After reading the passage, go through the vocabulary link first. Learn the words.
- Now complete all the other activities – cloze, crossword, yes/no questions and dictation.
Grammar
- Go back to the text again and try to identify a few verbs which are conjugated in the past tense. The first paragraph is done for you. (Identified in bold and underlined.)
Gordon was hungry. He opened the refrigerator. There must be something in here to eat, he thought. There was—a single hot dog.
- Similarly, identify the other verbs in the passage and note them down on a separate sheet of paper. Click a picture and send it to your teacher on WA.
Once you’re done, click on the menu. Choose reading passage no. 15, A noisy neighbour.
Follow all instructions as above.
Test:
If you feel ready, click https://www.eslfast.com/writing/scrambled_past01.htm
This is a test. Read the instruction on the page.
The first one is answered for you.
- plan / to / he / China / visit
ans : He planned to visit China.
Complete the rest of the questions.
Click the Back button on the page. Go back to the menu page and complete the other two.
Scrambled Sentences - The Simple Past Tense (2)
https://www.eslfast.com/writing/scrambled_past02.htm
AND
Scrambled Sentences - The Simple Past Tense (3)
https://www.eslfast.com/writing/scrambled_past03.htm
By the end of this activity, you will learn how to write some sentences in the simple past tense.
On class Voicethread, give us a spoken or written description of what you do in a day.