Lesson Plan: Simple Past Questions [Closed & Open]

During this lesson, we will focus on creating simple past questions.

We will focus on:

A	Open Questions
B	Closed Questions

What type of questions are we talking about?

Did you check the report?
Why did you create a new report?

Let’s get started

Grammar Focus (10 Mins)

Task1A

Let’s check some grammar first

The structure to make a closed question with the simple past

Did	Did
Personal Pronoun	you
Verb	make
Complement	a mistake
Question Mark	?

This is the structure to make a open question with the simple past:

Question	Why
Did	Did
Personal Pronoun	you
Verb	make
Complement	a cake
Question Mark	?

Schema Activation (40 Mins)

Task2A

Let’s play a bingo

Check the following list of irregular verbs

Bingo Links

Pre-Task #1 (40 Mins)

Task3A

Practice writing closed or open questions

Go to the Padlet.
Read the questions
Write three simple past questions different from the ones already posted.
Answer five of those questions

Break (30 Mins)

Task3A

Take some time off and be back on time

Main-Task – Discussion (1 Hour)

Task4A

Let’s talk about a past event

There will be two groups of students:

Make pairs.
The first pair of students will become familiar with the text .
The second pair of students will prepare 5 questions .
The second pair of students will ask the 5 questions and the first pair will answer the questions

Cyber Security Specialist

My name is Linda

As you probably know, I am a cyber security specialist, I am a freelancer so I don’t really have a boss or anything like that.

Last Tuesday, I finished preparing videos for my cyber security YouTube channel.

Then I took some time to rest, prepare pasta for dinner and watch Breaking Bad on Netflix.

At 10, When I was about to go to sleep, I got an emergency call from a dude called Ryan

Ryan needed help with 3 websites. He was using a free version of the CyberPanel Hosting Control Panel and a hacker stole his credentials and defaced all 3 of his websites.

These were not his personal websites, these were 3 big websites from clients so I think he crapped his pants when he found out all the sites had been hacked by a serious hacker and not a 12 -year-old kid from South Korea.

Not only his websites had been defaced, the hacker inserted scripts everywhere, injected all sorts of nasty images in the content , f*cked up the database real bad and deleted the server backups

Fortunately he had off-site backups so I told him to screw Cyber Panel and move to a more secure hosting environment.

I created a Cloudways account for him, I restored his 3 sites, it took me like 4 hours to do all that.

I also created a firewall for each one of the sites to prevent more attacks and monitor the traffic

I charged him $300 for the whole thing. Not too shabby for a four-hour gig.

I went to bed at 4 am in the morning. My cat was waiting for me.

I woke up around 1PM next day

Manuel Campos

I am Jose Manuel, English professor and creator of EnglishPost.org, a blog whose mission is to share lessons for those who want to learn and improve their English