I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!!!

What did you do during your vacation time?  Where did you go? What did you eat? Who do you go with? were some of the questions that I asked to my students....I took advantage of the famous subject “Holy week”,  and at the same time I could assess how much did they know about the topic to be developed. As I imagine, some of them were capable to share their experiences using the correct tense of the verbs...some others were not, but that conversation allowed me to present the topic.

As warm up I used a mini short story in which they had to find out and underline as many verbs in past tense as possible. We started by reading it together, and the command was that if  they found a verb in the past tense, they had to say VERB as a manner of alert, and we will repeat the pronunciation of the verb, the activity went well and I introduced them the topic which was Simple Past Tense in a different way, not with a game.

After that, I started my class by showing them a big chart with the corresponding Grammar explanation for the Simple past tense of the verbs. They could observe the meaning of “PAST”, how we can use it and some other information. On the other hand, I  included 2 different form of sentences, one in which you mention the specific time when you are talking about something, for example : “Yesterday I went to the park”  It is explicit the time you went “yesterday” ; but, there is another way to mention the simple past tense without the word, eg. : Monica danced with her friends at the party. (The simple past is implicit but not with an extra information) So, the key word is “The tense of the verb”. 

D A N C E D

 As I said before, some of them are really focus when the teacher is explaining the grammar part, and for sure they are the ones that can answer, and ask for doubts!!!!

I also included 3 different clues for them to know how to use the simple past tense in the regular form through the addition of “d” or “ed”. They helped me a lot working in the board, then they had a practice and in that nice way I concluded my third participation for this period!!!!

As in previous classes, I can share with you the feeling of satisfaction that you obtain when you are sure that you gave the best from you, it doesn´t matter if sometimes things don´t go in the way you want…we´re not perfects!!! But, the attitude, effort and willingness you bring for each class will set the difference in your Students!!!!

Good luck my dear friends for the Third Period…and remember that we´re about to reach one of our dreams!!!!