

This resource is a ready-to-teach PowerPoint presentation providing all the information and activities you require to introduce ESL learners to the past simple tense and stories in English. Suitable for both child and adult learners, this resource can be used online or in the classroom and is suitable for one-to-one or groups of learners. Created by Teacher Kaylee, a fully-qualified international school teacher, this lesson can be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as part of the Firefly Learner ESL English course (this lesson is unit 2, lesson 7).
This resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson which introduces students to the past simple tense through the context of a simple story.
LO: To start to understand the past simple tense with a story
Success Criteria:
I can read aloud in English
I can identify the characters in a story
I can identify the setting of a story
I can answer who, what, where and when questions about a simple story
I know that stories are usually told in past simple tense
I can identify regular and irregular verbs in past simple tense
I can explain how to change regular verbs to past simple tense
Vocabulary: who, what, where, when, character, setting, set, genre, forest, witch, fire, dragon, castle, past, present, future, walked, talked, cooked, looked, watched, played, worked, opened, helped, came, took, went, found, caught, ran,
Questions:
Who are the characters?
When is it set?
Where is it set? Where is the setting?
What is it about?
What is the genre?
What tense are stories written in?
The presentation includes the following:
✔ Learning objective and success criteria
✔ Starter and plenary activities
✔ Assessment of prior knowledge
✔ Teaching input (vocabulary & meanings, sentence construction, grammar points etc.)
✔ Differentiated independent and team consolidation tasks (3 levels)
✔ Speaking, reading, writing and grammar tasks
✔ Application activities and extension activities
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