Teacher Guide
This is useful for vocabulary building, especially words about jobs (the blue ones) and places (the black ones). Take the time to illustrate and discuss each of the options below, not just the ones that match the questions. Do your students know these jobs and places? When speaking about jobs, ask 'what do they do?' 'what do they wear?' 'what do they use?'. When speaking about places, ask 'what do you do there?' 'what people do you find there?' 'what does it look like?'.
Help them with the spelling and encourage them to read the questions and answers out loud when they've finished. Remind them that the article 'a' becomes 'an' if the next words starts with a vowel.
05mins - Conversation: What did you do to celebrate your last birthday? Did you have a party? What did you eat? Who did you celebrate with? Practice using the verb in the simple past.
10mins - Revision: Simple Past Catch. Split the class into two teams. Each team must brainstorm a list of 10 verbs and write them in the simple present. Team 1 will "throw" a verb to team 2, who must correctly change the verb to the simple past to earn a point. If team 2 answers incorrectly, team 1 can steal the point if they know the correct answer.
10mins - Activity: Writing prompt: "Yesterday while I was at the park, I saw a dog with two heads!" Create the story out loud with the students, giving each student an opportunity to contribute a sentence that will progress the storyline. Encourage students to use the verb in the simple past. Encourage the use of linking expressions such as: first, then, next, after and finally.
20mins - Worksheet: 03 Simple Past - 'Did you...?'
15mins - Test: 03 reading practice - part 1
05mins - Warm down: Goodbye, see you next time.
00mins - "Dear Diary..." have each student write a paragraph as if it were an excerpt from their diary. Students can write about something that happened at school or a fun experience they had on the weekend. Remind students to use verbs in the past!
1) Tell students to read all the options before they start to answer the questions, so that they're aware of the possible choices.
2) Students should read the whole sentence and copy their answers carefully.
- M - a pharmacy
- F - an airport
- G - an artist
- E - a circus
- A - an actor
- O - a clown
- C - a hospital
- D - a bank
- H - a dentist
- K - a journalist