Unit 2 · The World of Time
Past simple affirmative/negative/questions; regular and common irregular verbs.
Language target語言目標
Past simple affirmative/negative/questions; regular and common irregular verbs.
Seasonal / Taiwan connection季節與台灣連結
American culture: 'What happened?' can use a recent school event, sports game, or family outing.
Power vocabulary核心字彙 · 8 words · 中文與例句由 MCC 補充
The lesson, minute by minute · 課堂流程
Review last week's assignment. Ask 2–3 students to share. Correct one common error and celebrate one strong example.
Teach 5–10 target words. Always include: meaning, Chinese equivalent when useful, example, synonym, antonym, and/or word family.
Weekend Detective: students reconstruct a mystery from 6 clues and tell the story in the past.
Each student produces something before leaving: a sentence, answer, mini-story, explanation, role-play, or spoken response. Keep it quick and visible.
Teaching pack · 教學包
Activities you can read straight off this page, written to fit the blocks above.
可以直接照著這一頁上的活動，對應上面每一段課堂流程。
Dom's activity needs clues, so here they are. Hand them out in order, one at a time. After all six, each team tells the whole story in the past tense — that telling is the real exercise.
Dom 的活動需要線索，這裡備好了。一次發一條，照順序。六條發完後，每組用過去式把整個故事講一遍——講的那一段才是真正的練習。
Chinese puts the pastness in 了 or in a time word, and the verb never moves. English moves the verb — but only once. So two opposite errors appear: no past at all, and past marked twice.
中文把過去放在「了」或時間詞上，動詞本身不動。英文是動詞要變——但只變一次。所以會出現兩種相反的錯：完全沒變，和變了兩次。
Students write -ed correctly and then say it wrong. The ending follows the sound before it — no need to memorize lists, just feel where the mouth is.
學生 -ed 寫得對，唸出來卻錯。字尾的唸法由前一個音決定——不必背清單，感覺一下嘴巴在哪裡就知道。
Something that really happened last weekend, with one irregular verb underlined. True beats clever.
上週末真的發生的一件事，畫出其中一個不規則動詞。真實比漂亮重要。
Prep · 備課
No preparation needed. Five of this week's verbs are irregular and three are regular -ed — worth sorting on the board before anything else, because that split is the whole difficulty of the past simple.
不必備課。本週五個動詞是不規則、三個是規則加 -ed——先在白板上分成兩堆，因為過去式的難處全在這條分界線上。
Optional video / media plug-in影片與媒體（選用）
Optional: a short 'what happened?' clip with the sound off first, then on.
Homework回家作業 · due next week
Write a 100-word 'Last Weekend' story using at least 10 past-tense verbs; underline the irregular verbs.
CEFR differentiation · 依程度分級
One plan for a mixed class: what each level is asked to produce.
同一份教案帶混合程度的班：各級學生被要求產出的東西。
simple past statements.
questions + negatives.
connected story.
add detail and sequencing.
Next-week routine下週例行
Next Saturday: review this homework first, then move into Week 07.
Teacher principle: Review → Retrieve → Learn → Use → Challenge → Homework. Every week runs on the same routine, so the routine can be predictable and the learning can be creative.
