📅 What Did You Do Last Weekend?
In this reading-based lesson, students read about Nadia's busy weekend (basketball, horror film, shopping) and Jake's relaxed weekend (sleeping in, video games, bike ride). The texts are rich with both regular and irregular past tense verbs in context. Students learn Past Simple formation, spelling rules for regular verbs, 18 key irregular verbs, negatives with didn't, questions with Did, and past time expressions. Includes an irregular verb matching game (8 pairs), quiz, fill-in-the-blanks, and a writing task about their own weekend.
Lesson Plan
- Nadia (busy) and Jake (relaxed) describe their weekends
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Regular: watched, played, helped, practised, studied, stopped
- Irregular: went, had, came, woke, wrote, bought, ate, slept, met, fell, took, drove, taught, told, made, got, saw
- Negative: didn't + base form
- Question: Did you go? What did you do?
- was/were: The weather was amazing.
- Time: last weekend, yesterday, ago, on Saturday, in the morning
