Grammar with Song
SONG
AND GRAMMAR
Songs are the best way to help students work on
different elements of language learning. There are many different ways to use
songs in the classroom, from sing-a-longs to more structured
listening exercises, depending on the class you have and the goals you have in
mind.
A more structured exercise will
take a bit longer to prepare,
but it’ll be far more helpful for your students. Ideas for structured exercises will depend on
the grammar points you’re trying to teach, but they can include
fill-in-the-blank exercises, writing exercises to continue the song or even
creating adaptations of the song with new words.
Whatever you decide to do with the song you choose,
scientists agree—music offers loads of benefits to language learners. Take
advantage of them in the classroom right now!
But today in this time we will learn Past Tense with
songs.
SIMPLE
PAST TENSE
DEFINITION
OF THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE
The simple past tense, sometimes called the
preterite, is used to talk about a completed
action in a time before
now. The simple past is the basic form of past tense in English. The
time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past and action
duration is not important.
EXAMPLES
§ John
Cabot sailed to America
in 1498.
§ My
father died last year.
§ He lived in Fiji in 1976.
§ We crossed the Channel yesterday.
You
always use the simple past when you say when something happened, so it is associated with certain
past time expressions
- frequency: often,
sometimes, always
I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
I often brought my lunch to school. - a
definite point in time: last
week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
We saw a good film last week.
Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
She finished her work atseven o'clock
I went to the theatre last night - an
indefinite point in time: the
other day, ages ago, a long time ago
People lived in caves a long time ago.
She played the piano when she was a child.
Note: the
word ago is a useful way of expressing the distance into the
past. It is placed after the
period of time: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago.
PATTERNS
OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE
Patterns
|
Example of Simple Past Tense
|
|
positive (+)
|
S + Verb-2 (past tense)
S + be(was/were) |
The teacher came
|
I was a stamp collector
|
||
negative (-)
|
S + did + not + bare infinitive
S + be(was/were) + not |
The teacher didn’t come
|
I wasn’t a stamp collector
|
||
interogative (?)
|
Did + S + bare infinitive
be(was/were) + S |
Did the teacher come
|
Was I a stamp collector
|
Example of simple past tense in a song:
Candle
in the Wind
Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did
Loneliness
was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude
Exercise!!!!
note: If you have done, you can send your work to my gmail (zaahinbaroroh@gmail.com)
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