Description
This unit not only solidifies the use of the simple past tense but also encourages students to share personal experiences, making learning both meaningful and fun. Ready to backtrack and explore your yesterdays in English? Let’s rewind and enjoy! 🌟📅
Daily Activities:
🍳 Cook – Cooked: Discuss preparing meals.
📺 Watch – Watched: Talk about viewing TV shows or movies.
🧹 Clean – Cleaned: Share experiences of tidying up spaces.
🚶 Walk – Walked: Describe walking, whether in the city or nature.
Leisure and Recreation:
💃 Dance – Danced: Explore dancing at home or at events.
🕴️ Jump – Jumped: Discuss jumping, from sports to playful activities.
🎧 Listen – Listened: Talk about listening to music or other audio.
🎨 Paint – Painted: Share painting activities, whether artistic or for home maintenance.
Special Activities:
🎂 Bake – Baked: Discuss baking cakes or other treats.
🌲 Climb – Climbed: Share experiences of climbing, from trees to rock faces.
⚽ Kick – Kicked: Talk about kicking a ball in sports or leisure.
💋 Kiss – Kissed: Describe kissing family members or loved ones.
Communication and Travel:
📞 Phone – Phoned: Discuss making phone calls to friends or family.
🎮 Play – Played: Talk about playing games, from video games to board games.
✈️ Travel – Travelled: Share travel experiences, both local and international.
🦷 Visit – Visited: Describe visiting places like the dentist or other professionals.
Engaging ESL Conversations:
Role Plays: Practice discussing yesterday’s activities, using the past tense to describe what was done.
Discussion Questions: What did you do last weekend? Did you do anything exciting yesterday?
Vocabulary Games: “Past Tense Race” where students compete to correctly conjugate verbs, or “Yesterday’s Tale” where students create a story about their previous day.
Fun Activities:
Yesterday’s Comic Strip: Students draw a comic strip of their day.
Past Tense Diary Entry: Write a diary entry about yesterday using the verbs learned.
Memory Circle: One student shares an activity they did, and the next must repeat it and add their own, practising past tense verbs.
