Speech: Expressing Past Actions for Primary 2

Class: Primary 2
Term: Third Term
Week: 4
Age: 7 years
Duration: 45 minutes
Subject: English Studies
Curriculum Theme: Speech
Previous Lesson: Speech: Listening to and Telling Stories
Topic: Speech: Expressing Past Actions
Subject Matter: Expressing Past Actions

Specific Objectives

By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:

Cognitive Domain

• Identify verbs that show past actions.
• State the past tense forms of simple verbs.
• Form simple sentences using verbs in the past tense.

Affective Domain

• Show enthusiasm in speaking about past events.
• Appreciate the importance of using correct verb forms.

Psychomotor Domain

• Write sentences correctly expressing past actions.
• Participate actively in sentence construction exercises.

Reference Materials

The following resources were used in planning this lesson:

• 2014 9 Years Basic Education Curriculum
• Relevant State Unified Scheme of Work
• FCT ERC/NAPPS Scheme of work

Instructional Materials

The teacher will teach this lesson with the aid of:

• Chart showing verbs and their past tense forms
• Flash cards with present and past tense verbs
• Pupils’ notebooks
• English textbook

Rationale for the Lesson

This lesson is important because it enables pupils to communicate effectively about events that have already occurred. Mastering the expression of past actions helps pupils narrate stories, describe experiences, and understand timelines in their daily conversations and writing.

Prerequisite/Previous Knowledge

Pupils should have a basic understanding of simple sentences and common verbs.

Lesson Content/Board Summary

Speech: Expressing Past Actions

What are Past Actions?

Past actions are things that have already happened. They are actions that are finished.

When we talk about past actions, we use special forms of verbs called past tense verbs.

How to Express Past Actions

To express past actions, we change the verb to its past tense form. Many verbs add ‘-ed’ to show past action, but some change completely.

Examples of verbs and their past forms:

1. Present: walk → Past: walked
2. Present: play → Past: played
3. Present: jump → Past: jumped
4. Present: look → Past: looked
5. Present: wash → Past: washed
6. Present: eat → Past: ate
7. Present: go → Past: went
8. Present: see → Past: saw
9. Present: run → Past: ran
10. Present: sleep → Past: slept

Forming Sentences with Past Actions

We use past tense verbs in sentences to talk about things that happened before now.

Examples:

1. I walked to school yesterday.
2. She played with her friends.
3. The boy jumped over the rope.
4. We looked at the beautiful flowers.
5. My mother washed the clothes.
6. He ate an apple.
7. They went to the market.
8. I saw a bird.
9. The dog ran fast.
10. The baby slept soundly.

Teaching Methods/Instructional Techniques

Discussion, Explanation, Demonstration, Question and Answer, Guided Practice, Individual Practice

Instructional Procedures

Step 1: Introduction

Time: 5 minutes

Teaching Skill: Engaging/Activating prior knowledge

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher greets the pupils and asks them to talk about something they did yesterday or over the weekend. The teacher listens and notes down some of their actions.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils respond by sharing simple actions they performed in the past.

Learning Point: Recalling past activities

Step 2: Explanation of Past Actions

Time: 7 minutes

Teaching Skill: Explaining/Illustrating

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher explains that actions done in the past are called “past actions” and that verbs change form to show this. The teacher uses the chart to show examples of present and past tense verbs.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils listen attentively and observe the chart, repeating the past tense verbs after the teacher.

Learning Point: Understanding past actions

Step 3: Identifying Past Tense Verbs

Time: 7 minutes

Teaching Skill: Identification/Demonstration

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher displays flash cards with various verbs (both present and past tense). The teacher asks pupils to identify the verbs that show past actions.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils raise their hands to identify and say the past tense verbs from the flash cards.

Learning Point: Recognising past tense verbs

Step 4: Guided Sentence Construction

Time: 8 minutes

Teaching Skill: Guided Practice/Modelling

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher guides pupils to make simple sentences using the past tense verbs from the chart. The teacher provides the beginning of a sentence and asks pupils to complete it with a past action verb.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils participate by completing sentences orally, using appropriate past tense verbs.

Learning Point: Forming past action sentences

Step 5: Individual Sentence Construction

Time: 5 minutes

Teaching Skill: Individual Practice

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher asks individual pupils to create their own sentences using different past tense verbs. The teacher provides some verbs like ‘played’, ‘ate’, ‘went’ to help them.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils construct and say their own sentences expressing past actions.

Learning Point: Independent sentence formation

Step 6: Reinforcement through Activity

Time: 4 minutes

Teaching Skill: Application/Reinforcement

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher gives pupils the task of making sentences with words that are performed in the past, using the display chart as a guide.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils make distinctive statements about past actions from the display chart, either orally or by writing them down.

Learning Point: Applying past action verbs

Step 7: Evaluation/Review

Time: 5 minutes

Teaching Skill: Questioning/Assessment

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher evaluates the learning by asking the following questions:

1. What is a past action?
2. Give the past tense of ‘play’.
3. Give the past tense of ‘go’.
4. Make a sentence using the past tense of ‘eat’.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils answer orally and in writing.

Learning Point: Assessing past action understanding

Step 8: Note-Taking

Time: 4 minutes

Teaching Skill: Guided Writing

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher guides pupils to copy the essential Board Summary notes on expressing past actions into their notebooks.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils copy the notes carefully into their notebooks.

Learning Point: Recording lesson notes

Step 9: Conclusion

Time: 3 minutes

Teaching Skill: Summarising

Teacher’s Activity: The teacher reminds pupils that using past tense verbs helps us talk about things that have already happened. The teacher encourages them to practice using these verbs in their daily conversations.

Pupils’ Activity: Pupils listen and acknowledge the importance of using past actions correctly.

Learning Point: Consolidating past action concept

Continuous Assessment/Further Study

Type: Homework

Instruction: Write five sentences about what you did yesterday, using past tense verbs.

1. _________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________

Lesson Keywords

• Past Actions – things that have already happened
• Past Tense – the form of a verb used to talk about past actions
• Verb – a word that describes an action, state, or occurrence

Differentiation

For struggling learners, provide a list of simple verbs and their past tense forms to choose from when forming sentences. For advanced learners, encourage them to use more complex verbs or write short paragraphs about a past event.

Suggested Lesson Videos

Search YouTube for: “Primary 2 English past tense verbs” or “Past actions for kids”