D-08.06 Produce Simple-Past Sentences

Unit 17 of the Original Scenario 1: English Grammar in Context: the Simple Past Tense  (“Gossip”), pages 156-175 20 Pages Who It’s For: (Self) Teachers & Helpers at (High) Beginning to Low-Intermediate Learning Levels       Why It’s Useful: In the Original Scenario: English Grammar in Context series, each division of material covers a specific grammatical Topic in as much detail as its subject matter warrants at the targeted Level of Differentiation.  Unit 17: The Simple Past Tense is typical of this approach.  Postponing “the Past Time Frame” to a more advanced stage of instruction, it “teaches” Affirmative & Negative Statement, Question, & Answer patterns first.  Next come Spelling / Pronunciation Rules for Regular Past Verbs, followed by the Vocabulary of nine groupings of Irregular Verbs with a Verb-Form Reference List. Also characteristic of this mode of delivery is [1] Presentation of its Grammar-in-Context with a Scenario; numbered-lettered [2] Comprehension Check