Today we continued to talk about the simple past tense with our students. They will be having a test on this next week so we will continue to practice throughout the week. The lesson today was focused on the differences between an affirmative, negative, or interrogative sentence. The students have been given sentences that have a blank in the space for the verbs and they need to identify the correct verb form to use. They have trouble with wanting to use the past tense form all the time whether the sentence is affirmative or not. The thing that we are working on is identifying the sentence type before we place our verb form. The sentences that they are receiving are mixed with each type, the ones that are negative all have the phrase didn’t to identify that the sentence is already in the past so the past tense form of the verb is not necessary; all of the interrogative sentences start with did to help reinforce this relationship between did? And didn’t.
Examples: I __________ (visit) my Grandma last weekend.
We___________ (not/have) pizza for lunch.
_______ Mary __________(listen) to music?
Each Monday the students write a Weekend Journal about what they did over the weekend. This is another opportunity for us to practice forming sentences using the past tense. We were asked to create a short paragraph to share with the class.
Kyle and Steph’s Weekend journal for Junior 3
This weekend Stephanie and I went to Chinatown with Lillian. We took the train from Acasusso to Belgrano. We walked to a restaurant that is close to the train station. For lunch we ate Sushi, it was delicious. After lunch we walked through Chinatown and looked in the shops. Kyle bought a wind chime for his girlfriend because she collects wind chimes. Stephanie bought a colorful dress. After we shopped we went to the Botanical Gardens. We walked through the Botanical Gardens and learned more about the plants and trees that grow in South America.
On Sunday afternoon we went to the artisan fair at SanTelmo. We rode the train to Retiro station and then took a Taxi-cab to the artisan fair. We had fun listening to tango in the streets. We ate a Chorizo for lunch. After we looked at some very beautiful artwork we took the train back home.
