Past Simple grammar presentation following patterns. (biographies)

2. Willard Christopher Smith, Jr.
(born September 25, 1968) is an
American actor and rapper. He was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
the second of four children.
Will Smith started his career as part
of the pop-rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff &
the Fresh Prince, performing
humorous, radio-friendly songs,
most notably "Parents Just Don't
Understand". Smith was a
charismatic and energetic
performer, and in 1990 the NBC
television network signed him up
and built a sitcom, The Fresh
Prince of BelAir, around him. Smith
began a successful movie career
near the show's end with Bad Boys
(1995).

3. Catherine Zeta-Jones (born
September 25, 1969) is an
Academy Award-winning Welsh
actress.
She was born Catherine Jones and
hails from Mumbles, Wales.
Her stage career began in
childhood. She sang and danced
her way to local stardom as a part
of a catholic congregation's
performing troupe before she was
ten years of age, and by 1987 she
was appearing in Forty-Second
Street in the West End. Once the
show closed, Catherine travelled to
France, where she received the
lead role in French director Phillippe
De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a.
Sheherazade), her feature film
debut.

4. Nadia Comaneci (full name Nadia Elena
Comaneci) was born on November 12, 1961 in
Onesti, Romania. She is a Romanian gymnast
who won five Olympic medals being considered
one of the world's greatest gymnasts.
She competed for the first time in the national
championship in 1970 for her town's team and
soon after this she started to work with the
great coach Bella Karolyi and his wife Martha.
At the age of 13 she won at the European
championship in Norway in 1970 3 gold medals
and one silver. In the same year Associated
Press called her "the sport-woman of the year
in Romania".
In 1976 she became at the Summer Olympic
Games in Quebec Canada a very big star.
Nadia Comaneci succeed to obtain 6 times the
best mark:10 (first in the history of gymnastic)
and won 3 gold medals, 1 silver and a bronze
one. When she came back in Romania was
called "Hero of the Socialistic Labor", and was
the youngest person who got that distinction.

5. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15,
1929–April 4, 1968) was a Nobel
Laureate Baptist minister and African
American civil rights activist. He is one
of the most significant leaders in U.S.
history and in the modern history of
nonviolence, and is considered a hero,
peacemaker and martyr, Martin Luther
King Day was established in his honor.
King was born in Atlanta, Georgia to
the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. and
Alberta Williams King. He graduated
from Morehouse College with a
Bachelor of Arts degree (in Sociology)
in 1948 and from Crozer Theological
Seminary with a Bachelor of Divinity in
1951. He received his Ph.D. in
systematic theology from Boston
University in 1955.

6. • Topic: Biographies
• Competence: Writing about one’s and
other’s lives and experiences
• Objective of the lesson: enable
students to express personal and
people’s lives and experiences in the
past.

7. • Model 1:
• Orally the teacher provides part of his /her past experiences
about his/her life.
I was born in Monterrey, N.L. 44 years ago. I studied at the
American School Foundation of Monterrey, we had lots of
classrooms, football fields and a big science lab. I moved to
Pachuca and lived in San Lunes a beautiful place. I attended
Secondary at Lestonnac School, then my high school was at
Prepa 1. I studied my degree in English Language Teaching at
UAEH and had wonderful classmates and teachers . I took a
very interesting course last June.
• Model 2
Students are asked to read individually the examples provided.

8. • Knowledge:
• I was born in Monterrey, N.L. 44 years ago.
• Will Smith started his career as part of the pop-
rap duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince.
• I attended Secondary at Lestonnac School.
• Catherine travelled to France, where she received
the lead role.
• I took a very interesting course last June.
• Nadia Comaneci succeed to obtain 6 times the
best mark 10.
• . He received his Ph.D. in systematic theology
from Boston University in 1955.

9. • 2. Use of the language structure:
• Information about simple past: It is used to talk about actions or
situations that started and finished at a specific time in the past.
Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time,
but they do have one specific time in mind.
• 3. Simple past
•
• 4 Focus on language structure
FORM
VERB + ed or irregular verbs
• 5 Homework: Examples of past sentences

10. Practice:
1. Writing sentences in past In class
simple
2. Write a short biography of Homework
a famous person
www.biography.com/
3. Talk about their past In class/pair work
experiences
4. Report others classmate’s In class
experiences

11. • Evaluation
• Talk about some of your past experiences
• Marking criteria: Holistic
3) Complete understanding with appropriate
vocabulary and few, if any,
circumlocutions.
2) Meaning understood despite occasional
inappropriate vocabulary or
circumlocutions.
1) Meaning not fully clear or ambiguous
because of
restricted/inappropriate vocabulary

12. • Write about the experiences of others, emphasize on the
most interesting and exciting experiences she/he had
• Marking Criteria: Analytic
6. Few or any noticeable error of grammar or word order.
5. Some errors of grammar or word order which do not,
however, interfere with comprehension.
4. Errors of grammar or word order fairly frequent, occasional
re-reading necessary for full comprehension.
3. Error of grammar or word order frequent, efforts of
interpretation sometimes required on the reader's part.
2. Errors of grammar or word order very frequent, reader often
has to rely on interpretation.
1. Errors of grammar or word order so severe as to make
comprehension virtually impossible.

13. • Task completion
3 - Addresses the writing task effectively,
with appropriate vocabulary
2 - Some parts of the writing task are not
addressed, some errors in grammar
structure
1 - Addresses only slight parts of the task,
Errors in spelling or punctuation so
frequent that reader must often rely on
own interpretation