Teacher refers to the sentence constructed on the board and add 'ed' to the verb 'jump', and add in 'yesterday' to the sentence. Teacher gets pupils to read the sentence. Teacher asks pupils to change the other 4 sentences into past tense by doing likewise. Teacher explains that there are special words that change their spelling when they become past tense. Teacher gets pupils to construct sentences using these past tense verbs.
Teacher hands out a list of commonly used past tense verbs.
Pupils are to do varied individual work according to their abilities. The high and middle ability pupils are to identify and edit present tense verbs into past tense verbs. The low ability pupils are to match past tense verbs to their respective present tense verbs. Teacher arranges pupils into groups, distributing the different ability pupils. Each group is to write a composition based on a given picture, using past tense.