Resource 4: Past Simple for Teenagers

Using games as a teaching strategy is fun and easy and teenagers like it! The game is known as "The Big Cheese". It will help students learn and develop the skills through listening and identifying verbs in a sentence. Also, this game will give enough practice of past tense verbs, facilitate quick memorization and give students the opportunity to write the irregular verbs in the past tense and pronounce sentences.

This game is designed for a 45 minute class. You'll need about 20 irregular verbs. Make your own list to customize this game and adapt it to your plan or lesson. Students need a pen and paper, and the teacher needs a blackboard and a marker or chalk.

Divide the class into groups of two-four students, depending on the class size. Students must choose a name for the team and write it on the board. They should choose a team leader. This person will be designated to take the paper to the teacher in order to check the answer.

Ask students to take a piece of paper and a pencil or pen. Write an example on the board so that your students understand how to play and a list of irregular verbs with their times. Read the sentence three times in the present tense, high, slowly and clearly. Students have to write it again one last time, using the correct form and spelling of irregular verb in the past tense.

To earn points students must take their exercise to the teacher and check their answer. If the exercise is complete and correct, the student will mark a point on the board, will write the correct sentence on the board and continue to the next round. The winning team will have the most points and "The Big Cheese" will be announced.

REFERENCE:

Juego de Verbos. eHOW en español. Obtenido de http://www.ehowenespanol.com/juegos-verbos-pasado-simple-estudiantes-ingles-segunda-lengua-manera_440787/

Why this resource is appropriate for teenagers?

This teaching activity is appropriate  for teens  because provides practice and help them to recognize the different structures of the simple past and they can check knowledge when the teacher provides feedback. This activity motivates teens to learn because they love to learn through games and different activities that are not boring at all.