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What to create	Lesson plan
Which subject	English as second
What topic	Simple past
What length (min)	30
What age group	Year or Grade 5
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Academic Subject: English as a Second Language

Grade: 5 (Age: 9-10)

Objectives:

• Students will understand and use the simple past tense.
• Students will be able to identify regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense.
• Students will use the simple past tense in short written and spoken sentences.

Materials Needed:

• Whiteboard and marker
• Worksheets (provided in class)
• Short stories in past tense (provided in class)

Procedure:

Introduction (2 minutes)

• Greet students and check attendance.
• Ask students what verb tense they are familiar with.
• Introduce the simple past tense as a tense that is used to talk about past events.

Presentation (10 minutes)

• Write examples of regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense on the whiteboard.
• Explain the rules for changing regular verbs to past tense (add -ed to the base form).
• Show students a list of common irregular verbs and how they change in the past tense.
• Give examples of sentences using regular and irregular verbs.

Practice (10 minutes)

• Provide worksheets with sentences in present tense and ask students to change them to past tense.
• Check worksheets together with students.
• Give short stories in past tense for students to read and ask them to identify regular and irregular verbs in the story.
• Discuss the story with the class and ask students to share what they have learned.

Production (5 minutes)

• Ask students to write a few sentences using regular and irregular verbs in the simple past tense.
• Students can share their sentences with the class.

Conclusion (3 minutes)

• Summarize what has been learned in the lesson.
• Check for any questions or concerns.

Homework:

• Provide students with a worksheet of ten sentences in present tense.
• Ask them to change the sentences to past tense and check their answers using the answer key provided.