Period: 1 TENSES
Date: Sept. 1
st
, 2007
A. OBJECTIVES:
- To help sts use the simple present and the simple past correctly.
- To provide sts some exercises to do.
B. LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
1. Grammar: the simple present tense and the simple past tense
2. Vocabulary:
C. TECHNIQUES: Integrated, mainly communicative
D. TEACHING AIDS: Textbook, color chalks
E. PROCEDURES:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
I. The present simple:(25')
A. Form:
Positive: S + V( bare inf)/ V
+s/es
Negative: S + don’t/ doesn’t +V( bare
inf)
Question: Do/ Does +S+V(bare inf)?
B. Usage:
1. Habitual actions in the present
2.General timeless truth
3. Actions happen in the future in
subordinate clause of time.
Key:
1. grow
2. usually get up
3. doesn't know
4. sees

the front door.
II. The simple past: (20')
A. Form:
Positive: S + V
-ed
/ V
2
Negative: S + didn’t +V( bare inf)
Question: Did+S+V(bare inf)?
B. Usage:
1. Express an action finishes in the past.
(time confirms exactly)
2.A habit in the past
3. Adverbs of time: yesterday, last
week, ago, ect.
Ex: He didn’t work very hard
yesterday.
-When I was young, I went fishing
twice a week.
+ We can use “used to” or “would” to
express a habit in the past.
Ex: We used to be friends.
II. Give the correct verb tenses.
1. He (work) all day yesterday.
2. When I (arrive) at his house, he still
(sleep).
3. As we (cross) the street, the policeman
(shout) at us.
4. The light (go) out while we (have)
dinner.