Simple Past Tense: Rules Walkthrough

Section role: supports the 'Mapping the Past' section while the teacher formalizes the grammar rules discovered by students. Slides: (1) Title — 'Mapping Our Past Discoveries'; (2) Regular Verbs — bullets: definition, adding '-ed' to the base form, example 'play' -> 'played'; (3) Regular Verbs: Spelling Rules — bullets: common spelling changes for -ed (e.g., 'stop' -> 'stopped', 'study' -> 'studied'); (4) Irregular Verbs — bullets: definition, examples from 'Lost Diary Code' like 'go' -> 'went', 'eat' -> 'ate'; (5) Auxiliary 'Did' — bullets: forming questions ('Did you see?') and negatives ('I didn't play'), 'did' takes the past tense from the main verb; (6) Verb 'To Be' — bullets: unique forms 'was'/'were', no 'did' needed, examples 'He was there', 'They were not ready'. Concrete examples: 'play' / 'played', 'stop' / 'stopped', 'study' / 'studied', 'go' / 'went', 'eat' / 'ate', 'see' / 'saw', 'was' / 'were'. Hooks back to the rest of the lesson: builds directly on the 'decoding' activity from 'The Lost Diary Code' by formalizing the observed patterns and sets up the following listening practice. Closing slide: 'What is the main difference between regular and irregular verbs?' This material is part of a English foreign-language class for students in Brazil learning English. Regardless of the material's language, the key terms and examples being taught must be written in English, not in the students' native language.

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