Paradise Isn’t Always Perfect

This lesson introduces vocabulary for filing a police report.

This lesson focuses on the formation of the simple past tense, often referred to as the preterit. This lesson introduces the uses of this important past tense, as well as orients students to its application. 

Students will be able to:

1. Conjugate regular verbs in the preterite tense.
2. Understand past tense sentences and phrases with the new vocabulary.
3. Reinforce previous vocabulary and begin speaking in the past tense.

This lesson concentrates on the use of the preterit in questions and answers with the use of the direct object pronouns. The aim of this lesson is to use direct object pronouns properly in a brief and natural question and answer context. 

In this lesson you will practice real life conversation and dialogue. The emphasis of the lesson is on the preterit tense, but it also covers present tense auxiliary verb structures.

The contents of the lesson integrate may past language concepts, while you work to integrate new information into previously learned structures.

This quiz assesses understanding of the thematic conversation presented in the text. Students will be tested on preterit tense verb conjugation, questions and answers with preterit tense verbs, and the use of the direct object within context.

Students will be introduced to the Irregular verbs of the preterite tense.

In this lesson you will:

• Identify the preterit irregulars and their endings
• Begin forming basic sentences with preterites and their endings
• Form questions with preterit tense irregulars
• Practice writing, sentence builing and speaking

Students will practice with preterit irregulars in various situations, including writing a police report. They will practice changing quicly between all persons of the verb. 

This lesson reinforces the past tense of various preterite verb and introduces poder , poner, and various other preterite irregulars. 

Story telling methodology is used.