### Lesson Plan for English Comprehension: Structure - Tenses (Past)
#### Grade Level: Senior Secondary 1
#### Duration: 60 Minutes
#### Topic: Structure - Tenses (Past)
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#### Objectives:
1. **Cognitive:** Students will be able to identify and use past tense verbs in sentences.
2. **Affective:** Students will appreciate the importance of proper tense usage in narrative and descriptive texts.
3. **Psychomotor:** Students will practice writing sentences and paragraphs using past tense verbs.
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#### Materials Needed:
- Whiteboard and markers
- Handouts with past tense verb exercises
- Sample texts with past tense usage
- Audio-visual resources (optional: video clips that narrate events in the past)
- Notebooks and pens
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#### Lesson Procedure:
**1. Introduction (10 minutes)**
- Begin with a brief discussion about the importance of tenses in English grammar, particularly focusing on the past tense.
- Ask students to share some events that happened to them last week using past tense.
**2. Presentation (15 minutes)**
- Introduce the past tense with a mini-lecture.
- **Simple Past Tense**: Used for actions completed in the past (e.g., "She walked to the store.")
- **Past Continuous Tense**: Used for actions that were ongoing in the past (e.g., "They were watching a movie.")
- **Past Perfect Tense**: Used for actions that were completed before another action in the past (e.g., "He had finished his homework before he went out.")
- **Past Perfect Continuous Tense**: Used for actions that were ongoing up until another past action (e.g., "She had been reading for an hour when he called.")
- Provide examples of sentences for each type of past tense and write them on the board.
- Explain common past tense verbs and the rules for forming them, including regular verbs (adding -ed) and irregular verbs (which change forms, such as 'go' to 'went').
**3. Guided Practice (15 minutes)**
- Hand out worksheets with sentences that need past tense verbs. The sentences should be a mix of simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous past tenses.
- Students work individually or in pairs to fill in the correct past tense form of the verbs.
- Review the answers as a class, discussing any mistakes or uncertainties.
**4. Application Activities (10 minutes)**
- Give students a short narrative text written in the present tense.
- Ask students to rewrite the narrative in the past tense.
- Optionally, show a short video clip and ask students to write a summary of the events in past tense.
**5. Assessment (5 minutes)**
- Conduct a quick oral quiz where students must identify the type of past tense used in given sentences.
- Ask students to write three sentences, each using a different past tense covered in the lesson.
**6. Closure (5 minutes)**
- Summarize the key points of the lesson: the different types of past tenses, their structures, and their usage.
- Clarify any remaining questions students may have.
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#### Homework:
- Assign students to write a short story (150-200 words) about a memorable event that happened to them, emphasizing the appropriate use of various past tenses discussed in class.
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#### Additional Notes:
- Encourage students to read books, articles, or stories written in the past tense to get more familiar with how it's used in context.
- Offer additional support for students who may struggle with irregular past tense verbs.
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**End of Lesson Plan**