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Talk About Yesterday

Use past-simple verbs, time markers, and a clear story shape to tell what happened and answer a follow-up.

LevelA2 Core
Time30 minutes
SkillsGrammar + Storytelling
OutcomeA connected six-sentence past story

Your goal

By the end of this lesson, you can tell a connected story about yesterday with useful past verbs, ask or answer a did question, and express a reaction.

คำอธิบายเป้าหมายภาษาไทย — เปิดเมื่อจำเป็น

บทนี้ฝึก Past Simple เพื่อเล่าเหตุการณ์ที่จบแล้ว โดยจัดเรื่องเป็นจุดเริ่มต้น เหตุการณ์ ปัญหาหรือการเปลี่ยนแปลง ผลลัพธ์ และความรู้สึก พร้อมใช้ did + กริยารูปปกติในคำถาม

Grammar focus

Past Simple

UseTalk about finished actions and events at a completed time in the past.
Core formsubject + past verb
Question formdid + subject + base verb?
RememberCommon signals: yesterday · last night · ago · in 2025 · then.
ชื่อไวยากรณ์ภาษาไทย — เปิดเมื่อจำเป็น

ชื่อไวยากรณ์คือ Past Simple ใช้เล่าเหตุการณ์ที่จบแล้ว ประโยคบอกเล่าใช้กริยาอดีต ส่วนคำถามใช้ did + กริยารูปปกติ

Progress focus LCFP
LC · Language Control
Control the target pattern so the intended time and meaning remain clear.
FP · Functional Performance
Complete the lesson’s real communication outcome without teacher-supplied sentences.

Your grammar path

MeaningFind the story shape

Notice the beginning, events, change, result, and reaction.

PatternControl past verbs and did

Use past forms in statements and the base verb after did.

UseTell and respond

Deliver a short story and answer a relevant past question.

30-minute lesson route

3 minStory baseline
5 minPast verb bank
5 minDid + base verb
6 minGuided story
7 minTell & follow up
4 minFeedback & retry
1 · Build meaning

Find the story shape

Listen for the beginning, events, problem or change, result, and reaction.

Engduo Audio: Listen for meaning first. Audio never starts automatically.

Engduo Audio • American English

Listen for the late start, the problem, and the ending.

Engduo Audio • British English

Listen for the meeting, the events, and the speaker’s reaction.

Story 1: woke up late → missed the train → heavy traffic → meeting also started late

Story 2: met an old friend → had dinner → talked for hours → felt happy

2 · Notice the pattern

Build a useful past-verb bank

Past-story path with yesterday, sequence events, problem, result, and reaction
Use the visual to notice, practise, and communicate.
Regularstart → started
arrive → arrived
finish → finished
Irregularwake → woke
meet → met
have → had
More useful verbstake → took
get → got
feel → felt
3 · Build the message

Ask about the past

MeaningPatternExample
Statementsubject + past verbYou went home early.
Questiondid + subject + base verbDid you go home early?
Negativesubject + didn’t + base verbI didn’t go home early.
Did you went by train?
Did you go by train?
4 · Practise with support

Build a six-sentence story

Write key verbs only, then speak.

  1. Yesterday started ______.
  2. First, I ______.
  3. Then I ______.
  4. After that, ______ happened.
  5. In the end, ______.
  6. I felt ______ because ______.
5 · Communicate

Tell the story and respond

Tell the story without reading full sentences. Your partner asks one Did you…? question and one What happened…? question.

Story language: yesterday · last night · first · then · after that · finally · in the end

Final practice: Tell a clear story about yesterday

Task: Tell a connected six-sentence story with at least three past verbs and three sequence markers. Answer one did question and one open follow-up from your partner.

Success: The listener can follow the story shape, past forms remain clear, and the learner answers both follow-ups without teacher-supplied sentences.

LC · Language Control

1 Frequent form problems obscure the intended time or meaning.

2 Meaning remains clear with some prompting or self-correction.

3 Controls useful past forms and the base verb after did across the story and follow-up.

FP · Functional Performance

1 Does not yet complete the communication outcome.

2 Completes most of the outcome with visible prompts.

3 Completes the story and answers both follow-ups independently.

คำอธิบายภาษาไทย — เปิดเมื่อจำเป็นเท่านั้น

Past Simple ใช้กับเหตุการณ์ที่จบแล้ว: ประโยคบอกเล่าใช้กริยาช่องอดีต ส่วนคำถามใช้ did + กริยารูปปกติ เช่น Did you go? ไม่ใช่ Did you went? ใช้ first, then, after that และ in the end เพื่อให้เรื่องตามง่าย

Teacher guide · 30-minute delivery
  1. 3 min: Elicit three key words about yesterday and record the baseline story shape.
  2. 5 min: Play the two models and build a compact regular and irregular past-verb bank.
  3. 5 min: Contrast past statements with did + base-verb questions.
  4. 6 min: Prepare the six-sentence story with key words only.
  5. 7 min: Tell the story and answer one did question plus one open follow-up.
  6. 4 min: Score LC and FP, correct one recurring form, and retry the weakest part.

Continue your learning path

Teaching references

CEFR Companion Volume — used for communication outcomes and observable progress.

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