Daily Routine: What is a typical day?

List of Daily Routine Examples (Present Tense)

• wake up
• have breakfast
• brush your teeth
• take a shower
• take a bath
• get dressed
• go to school
• study English
• eat lunch
• go the library
• return home
• have dinner
• do homework/study
• do a hobby
• wash up for bed
• sleep

 

List of Daily Routines (Past Simple Tense)

• I woke up.
• I turned off my alarm.
• I got up.
• I took a shower / I had a shower.
• I got dressed.
• I combed my hair.
• I made breakfast.

I ate breakfast / I had breakfast.

Conversation:

Aimee and Todd (Beginner,  High Beginner)

Activities: A Normal Day vs Yesterday

Simple Past Tense

 

The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened or existed before now. 

Past Time Expressions: 

Last...week, month, year, weekend, winter..

Ago: 3 days ago, 2 summers ago, 6 weeks ago...

When + past: when I was a baby....

I. Regular Verbs

When ESL students first learn to form simple past tense verbs, they learn to add an "-ed" to the end of the base verb form. For example, "walk" becomes "walked.

Rule: Root Verb + -ed or -ied

Example:

Grandma cooked a delicious dinner last night. (root Verb: cook)

She studied English last Thursday. (root Verb: study)

A. Pronunciation: The final e in ‑ed is generally silent:

• listened -> /lisnd/
• watched -> /wacht/ 

BUT:

• visited -> /vIzIted/ 

1.  "ed" ending as a "T (asked, cooked, dressed)

2. "-ed" ending as "D " (agreed, called)

Tongue Twister: 

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

 

II. Irregular Verbs

Irregular verbs are verbs that don't take on the regular –d, -ed, or -ied. The top 10 irregular verbs in English are: see, say, go, come, know, get, give, become, find, and think. (Top  50)

Examples:

They saw the biggest Christmas tree yesterday at the mall.

The teacher said our homework is due on Friday.

We went shopping last weekend.

I came over your house last summer.

III. Conversations

Past Tense Questions

• What did you wear yesterday?
• Where did you go for your last vacation?
• What did you learn at school yesterday?
• What was the last movie you saw?
• What did you eat for breakfast?
• What was the last thing you bought?
• What was the last sport you played?

https://www.allthingsgrammar.com/uploads/2/3/2/9/23290220/mini-conversations-pastsim3.pdf

https://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/grammar-topic/past-simple-tense/past-simple-conversation-questions/145251

https://bogglesworldesl.com/Listening/PastTense10.html

http://www.carmenlu.com/first/listening/pastdialogues1.html

More Resources:

Past Tense Tongue Twisters (Quizlet)

Random Wheel (Game questions)

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past-simple-affirmative-exercises.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/irregular-verbs-exercise-2.html

https://games4esl.com/english-exercises/english-grammar-exercises/past-simple-exercises-1/

https://ngl.cengage.com/assets/downloads_b/marketing_downloads/142407908X/1603/GIC1_unit8.pdf

ESL Unit 4: Writing in the Past Tense

Let us see how much A class can get done before the Lunar New Year. I am happy that this unit has readings on such humanitarians such as labor organizer Cesar Chaves and author/peace activist Helen Keller.

January 2019

WEEK 1 The SimplePast: Cesar Chavez
Class 1: pg. 100-103
Class 2 pg. 104-105

WEEK 2 Irregular Verbs: Helen Keller
Class 1:pg. 106-109
Class 2: pg.110-112

WEEK 3 Editing
Class 1: pg. 113-114
Class 2 pg. 115-117

WEEK 4 Complex Sentences
Class 1: pg. 119-121
Class 2 pg.  122-127