Syllabus: Teaching the Simple Past Tense for Beginners
Level: Beginners (A1-A2)
Duration: 45 minutes
Teacher: Santiago Portilla
Didactic Moments
Resources
Activities & Assessment
TPACK Methodology
- INTRODUCTION (5 MINS)
- Digital timeline (e.g., Jamboard, Google Slides).
- Visual aids (flashcards with verbs and time expressions).
- Teacher introduces past actions with examples (*Yesterday, I walked to school. Last week, we played soccer.*).
**Assessment:**
- Students identify the time of actions in simple Q&A.
- **Technological Knowledge (TK):** Use an interactive digital timeline to represent past events visually.
- **Pedagogical Knowledge (PK):** Use examples relevant to students’ experiences.
- Presentation (10 mins)
- Prezi or interactive slides for rules of the simple past (regular verbs: *-ed*, irregular verbs: examples like *go → went*).
- Students watch examples of regular and irregular verbs in sentences.
**Assessment:**
- Students participate in a quick matching activity (verb base to past form).
- **Content Knowledge (CK):** Explain regular and irregular verb structures.
- **TK:** Animated slides highlight verb transformations (regular vs. irregular).
- Guided Practice (15 mins)
- Wordwall or Kahoot quiz on forming past tense verbs.
- Interactive worksheet (digital or printed) with fill-in-the-blank exercises.
- Students complete digital exercises on Wordwall.
- Students form simple sentences in pairs (e.g., *I watched a movie yesterday.*).
**Assessment:**
- Peer correction and quiz results.
- **PK:** Pair students for collaborative learning.
- **TK:** Use gamified tools (Wordwall/Kahoot) for engaging verb practice.
- Application (10 mins)
- Padlet or Flipgrid for storytelling.
- Students write a short paragraph (*What did you do yesterday?*) and share via Padlet.
**Assessment:**
- Teacher gives feedback on written accuracy.
- **TK:** Digital platforms foster creativity and sharing.
- **PK:** Scaffold storytelling with guiding questions (e.g., *Where? When? What happened?*).
- Wrap-Up (5 mins)
- Mentimeter or Google Forms for quick feedback.
- Students answer 2-3 exit questions (e.g., *What is the past tense of “go”?*).
**Assessment:**
- Exit tickets or polls measure understanding.
- **TK:** Use polls to assess learning effectively.
- **PK:** Reinforce concepts and address common errors through elicitation.
Homework
Write 3-5 sentences about what you did last weekend and submit them via a class platform (e.g., Google Classroom).