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Past Tense Verbs

過去形　（かこけい）

 

Fun Fact: "August 15th, 2007 marks the first year since the end of WWII that Japan's prime minister (Shinzo Abe) and Cabinet forewent the annual Yasukuni Shrine visit."

All-In-One Activity

This activity will have the students read, write, speak and listen to one another in a ‘find your partner’ like activity.
 
Using Celine Dion’s love song, students play bingo listening for past tense verbs in the song.
 
Students practice writing five simple past tense questions, and then ask their friends a series of questions while following their navigating their way through a Calvin & Hobbes maze.
 
Students fill in a form then insert the info into a template to create a crazy story, then have a go at writing their own. Requires knowledge of past-tense of play, go, see, have, and is (optional).
 
Students listen to, learn, and use phrases often used in diaries.
 
Students ask the ALT questions using 'did' questions: "Did you eat breakfast yesterday?" Points are recieved for 'yes' responses.
 
Students choose a bingo line and then janken each other to try to 're-bingo'.
 
The students listen to a brief story about the death of Hello Kitty. Then, using those clues, they ask their friends questions to determine who is the murderer.
 
This is a quick and easy vocab review `game` for 1st grade past tense verbs. Ideal for a quick review before doing a writing exercise.
 

Gridded

Students work in pairs, groups or by themselves to put together a puzzle by connecting past tense questions to their appropriate past tense answers.

 
Kakokei is Japanese for past tense.  Students listen to the teacher read a sentence and slap the correct 'verb card'.

Shopping Yesterday

Students read a short passage and answer the Past Tense questions.

 

Show and Tell

Students write a show-n-tell speech and perform it in front of their peers.

 

Show and Tell II

ALT gives an example of a Show-n-Tell speech. Students write and perform their own speech.

 
My Breakfast
This activity is a simple worksheet for reviewing simple past tense using what the students ate or drank for breakfast.
 
This is a board/dice game that practices the irregular and regular paste tense verbs. Students make one sentence each time they land on a square.
 
Students get into groups and try to come up with past tense sentences that will give them the most points.
 
Students interview each other to fill-in-the-blanks on their weather map.
 
R & R stands for Read & Race.  Students work together in groups to gather the sentences around the room.
 

This is a review activity to enhance students' ability to write past tense questions and practice speaking as much as possible.

 

Story Time

Students utilize intreresting photographs to formulate a past tense story.

 

Summer Past Tense Janken

Students ask each other questions and talk about their summer vacation in the past tense, while playing interview Janken, of course!

 

Takuya Kimura's Best Friend

Students learn the usage of the past tense while investigating a Japanese musician from SMAP, Takuya Kimura.

 

Was & Did

Working in pairs, one student gives their partners past tense and past participle questions while their partners search out two pictures across the room looking for the answers.

 

What's the Diff?

Students remember the placement of objects on a scene while practicing simple past tense verbs.

 

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