Lesson plan 1 overview

Third grade

Unit 3: An eye for an eye? Past Tenses (Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect) SB p 24-25

1)In order to revise the previously learnt material regarding present perfect simple, present perfect
continuous or past simple tense, try to imagine an item of technology and write five questions about the
object. (For ex. Have you been using it a lot recently? What was it made of? …) When you come to
school after an online lesson you will be using those questions to ask other students about an imaginary
item of technology and to guess what they thought about.

2) This section introduces the narrative tenses: The Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect. Since
all the tenses have been covered in the previous grades it is necessary for you to know them all.

TENSES PAST SIMPLE PAST CONTINUOUS PAST PERFECT

AFFIRMATIVE I WALKED I WAS WALKING I HAD WALKED

I WENT I WAS GOING I HAD GONE

QUESTIONS DID I WALK? WAS I WALKING? HAD I WALKED?

DID I GO? WAS I GOING? HAD I GONE?

NEGATIVES I DIDN’T WALK I WASN’T WALKING I HADN’T WALKED

I DIDN’T GO I WASN’T GOING I HADN’T GONE

3) Before you read the text, pay attention to the given picture and try to figure out what this
picture represents and what you think they did.
Read the short reading extract and try to figure out what really happened there. (SB p 24) This is their
punishment for a crime. Try to comment on whether this is the right punishment for the committed
crime and what other “creative” punishments could you think of? Do you think that those punishments
could work in our country for some crimes that are not so serious?

4) Pay attention to the exercise 3 and try to identify whether the verbs in bold are in Past Simple/Past
Continuous/Past Perfect Tense. After you do it, circle the correct word in the explanations. Sometimes
the translation into Bosnian language might help you to decide what tense is found in what example.

5) After you choose one out of three given options try to go through the text and find other examples of
the three tenses. In order to understand these narrative tenses even better copy this time line where it
is clearly illustrated when each of the tenses is used.
6) To make narrative tenses clear, you can find some more explanations below:

Past Perfect Tense is formed of the auxiliary verb “had” and past participle of the main verb (for regular
verbs –ed ending is added, for irregular verbs, the third column has been used) for ex. Had stopped, had
driven…

Past Perfect Tense is used to describe the action that happened before some other action in the past i.e.
we go one more step back in the past and express by past perfect tense the action that is “older” from
the two given actions. For ex. He had done his homework before I came home. (He did his homework
first, then I came)

Past Simple Tense is formed by adding –ed ending to the regular verbs or by using the second column
from the list of irregular verbs. (went, played)

Past Simple Tense is used:

1. to describe the finished actions in the past when we exactly know when it happened. If no
adverbials were provided, it is visible from the context in which the verb appears.

He woke up early this morning)

2. to tell the main events in a story in the chronological order:

I ran forward and pushed through the crowd.

Past continuous tense is formed from the auxiliary verb was/were and the main verb with –ing ending.
(was reading, were going…).

It is used:

1. For longer actions which are interrupted by shorter ones (I was watching TV when she called
me)
2. For temporary situations which were true for some time in the past (I was staying in Ohio while
I was going to secondary school)
3. To describe things which were in progress at a specific time in the past ( It was 10 o’clock. I was
jogging)

7) In order to practice narrative tenses complete the following exercises: