Stories & achievements: The man who lived at sea for 100 days

This A1 ESL lesson teaches Past Simple irregular verbs together with vocabulary for achievements and the ocean, built around the true story of Joseph Dituri — a scientist who lived underwater for 100 days — so learners talk about real past events in a memorable context.

What students learn

Students build achievement-and-ocean vocabulary — challenge, experience, surface, scientist, collect information, famous — and meet high-frequency irregular verbs such as go/went, see/saw, come/came, become/became, spend/spent, eat/ate, drink/drank, write/wrote and sleep/slept, with Ukrainian translations.

Grammar focus

The lesson covers Past Simple irregular verbs across positive, negative and question forms (he went, he didn't leave, did you see?), using an irregular-verbs reference table and a real story to show how the forms work. Sentence-ordering and error-correction tasks help learners notice common mistakes.

How the lesson works

A warm-up with water-body photos opens the topic and a lead-in about living on the ocean for 100 days activates ideas. Then come vocabulary with emoji and word matching, a reading and audio about Joseph Dituri, the grammar block, a freer speaking task where learners pick an extreme challenge, a test and a homework interview role-play. Interactive exercises give instant feedback throughout.