TEXTBOOKS A RESOURCE FOR TEACHING PAST SIMPLE FOR ADULTS

Textbooks in English is one of the best ways to acquire vocabulary, and be a guide for both the student and teacher.

This activity is focus on visual learning according to this characteristics:
Look at the teacher's face intently
Use lists to organize their thoughts
Recall information by remembering how it was set out on a page
Methodology: The teacher will make an introduction about simple past, with respective explaining and examples, also every student choose a picture and they make a description about the image using past simple; following the teacher will reinforce the activity with a video with more examples and pronunciation of simple past.
Materials: A textbook, posters


Explaining: The past simple is for past actions. Indicate the time period during which it developed and completed a completed action. It is usual to be accompanied by an adverb of time.

Here are the three forms in past simple and interrogative- negative:

AFIRMATIVA		NEGATIVA
I played You played He played We played You played They played	Yo jugué Tú jugaste Él jugó Nosotros jugamos Vosotros jugasteis Ellos jugaron	I did not play You did not play He did not play We did not play You did not play They did not play	Yo no jugué Tú no jugaste Él no jugó Nosotros no jugamos Vosotros no jugasteis Ellos no jugaron

 

INTERROGATIVA		INT.-NEGATIVA
Did I play? Did you play? Did he play? Did we play? Did you play? Did they play?	¿Jugué? ¿Jugaste? ¿Jugó? ¿Jugamos? ¿Jugasteis? ¿Jugaron?	Didn't I play? Didn't you play? Didn't he play? Didn't we play? Didn't you play? Didn't  they play?	¿No jugué? ¿No jugaste? ¿No jugó? ¿No jugamos? ¿No jugasteis? ¿No jugaron?

Examples:


I bought this car last year / Compré este coche el año pasado


b.) Para expresar una acción indeterminada en el pasado:


They used pencils and paper / Utilizaron lápices y papel


c.) Para expresar una acción habitual en el pasado


They never drank alcohol / Nunca bebían alcohol


d.) Puede servir para expresar una condición improbable. 


If I saw her, I should speak to her / Si le viera le hablaría


In this video the students watch and pay attention to rules grammar

taken from:
http://www.mansioningles.com/gram40.htm