PAST SIMPLE - PAST CONTINOUS

 The objective of this webquest aims at enabling students to tell a spooky story using the Past Simple and past continuous verb tenses. Towards this objective the lessons will be organized to provide students with different opportunities to foster their 4 language skills: listening, reading, writing and speaking.

Students´ background

This webquest is directed to students with a pre- intermediate level of accuracy. At this level of proficiency, learners ought to be able to communicate intelligibly though may make frequent mistakes when speaking and may need to ask the teacher to report words or phrases to aid understanding.

Background information on the topic:

PAST SIMPLE – PAST CONTINOUS

We need these tenses of verbs to describe a scene or situation, incidents, accidents.

We use the Past Continous for something that happened in the past but it was not finished at a certain time.

We use the Past Simple for actions that happened and finished in the past.

We connect both of them when we need to explain an action in progress and another that interrupt or modify what was happening.

In order to achieve our objective and to make our learning more engaging, you are invited to participate in “A spooky story telling activity”. This activity will consist on writing a spooky story in groups of 4 learners and being able to tell it to the rest of the class

1.   I will start the task by making groups of 4 and  ask them to think of the characters, the setting, the introduction, the conclusion.

2.       Throughout the lesson in class students will listen to other groups´stories.

3.       Students will receive guidance through identification of narrative tenses (simple past and past continuous) and use WHILE, WHEN during the writing process.

4.       If  students need further practice on the narrative tenses, they can go and  click on any of the links at the “credits” section

Evaluation

Congratulations! You have just completed your task. You have made nice stories and told them to the class.

The knowledge you have gained throughout this webquest will help you to discover more about past tenses.

Use the following links to practice on Narrative tenses: Past Simple and Past continuous.

-Listen, pause and write:  Call me Maybe song (Carly Rae Jepsen)

https://youtu.be/fWNaR-rxAic

1. Fill in the blanks with the verbs from the exercise 1 in Past Simple or in Past Continuous.

 I (1)………….. a wish in the well,

Don't ask me, I'll never tell

I (2)………… to you as it fell,

And now you're in my way

 

I'd trade my soul for a wish,

Pennies and dimes for a kiss

 I (3)…………………. for this,

But now you're in my way

 

Your stare (4)…………………..,

Ripped jeans, skin (5)………………..

Hot night, wind (6)……………………….

Where you think you're going, baby?

 

Hey, I just (7)………… you,

And this is crazy,

But here's my number,

So call me, maybe?

 

It's hard to look right,

At you baby,

But here's my number,

So call me, maybe?

 

Hey, I just met you,

And this is crazy,

But here's my number,

So call me, maybe?

 

And all the other boys,

Try to chase me,

But here's my number,

So call me, maybe?

 

You (8)………….. your time with the call,

I (8)………………….. no time with the fall

You (9)…………………. me nothing at all,

But still, you're in my way

 

I beg, and borrow and steal

Have foresight and it's real

I (10)……………………. I would feel it,

But it's in my way

 

Before you (11)………….. into my life

I (12)…………………………….. you so bad

I (12)…………………………….. you so bad

I (12)…………………………….. you so, so bad

Before you (11)………….. into my life

I (12)……………………………… you so bad

And you should know

that I (12)……………….. you so, so bad

- Past simple and Past continuous betting game . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.eslgamesworld.com/members/games/grammar/perfectpast/past%20p…

- (n.d.). Retrieved June 17, 2017, from https://youtu.be/fWNaR-rxAic

Video from Youtube

- Simple Past or Past Progressive – Exercise 1. (n.d.). Retrieved June 17, 2017, from http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_progressi…

- Speaking activity: To catch a thief. (2010, January). Retrieved June 17, 2017, from https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/catch-a-thief-past-simple-pa….