A PACE Lesson on: The Simple Past Tense
*Home Page
*PACE Page	This page!
*The Dialogue -What's New?  No News!	Read and listen to this dialogue.  Click on underlined words for help.
* Past Tense	Figure out how to make the past tense.
* Verb Practice	Do these exercises to practice what you know.
*More Verb Practice	Show more of what you know.
*Verb Page	Use this page to answer the questions about verbs.
*Vocabulary	Use this page for more help with the vocabulary.
*Credits
Goals: To expose students to a dialogue and an old joke form in English, to teach the formation of the simple past tense.
Objectives:  Students will co-create the rules for the simple past tense.  Students will independently form the simple past tense.
NYS Standards: #1 English for information and understanding,#3 English for cricial analysis and evaluation, #5English for cross cultural knowledge

P	Presentation phase:  Read and listen to the dialogue on The Dialogue page; click on links as needed for help with comprehension.
A	Attention is paid to the way the verbs are formed on the Past Tense page.
C	Co-creation of the rules for the way the verbs are formed on the Past Tense page.
E	Extension activity is on the Verb Work page.