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Teaching past simple
First, I will explain the rules and show them examples on the board, while I am doing it they will record me. Then, let listen to the tape recorder After the video I will discuss it over with them and ask them again by asking them questions of what I

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Visual teaching/learning style (approach) puts its major emphasis on interlacing visual materials during the learning process — such as graphics.

As such, a visual learner will be definitely encouraged by learning via images, posters, flow charts, diagrams, maps, flash-cards, videos, and slideshows. Thus, it is always recommended to use visual tools as much as possible in order to ease learning processes.

The lessons should take place either in a language-laboratory, a classroom equipped with audio-visual devices (such as: computers and a projector), or in a classroom which is designated to contain posters, maps, charts, etc.

Therefore, as part of our lesson plan on the Past Simple tense; I would suggest using the following visual components:

Firstly, showing the students a brief video-clip taken from the known film: “Kong Fu-Panda 2” (using a Past Simple tense dialogue).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4B43IIq-Sg  [accessed: 23/11/2017].

Afterwards, the dialogue could be presented in form of a flow chart (this type of tool frequently facilitates the learning process, especially when the students learn new stories).

At the third stage, each of the earlier presented sentences will be written in form of incompleted sentences that should be filled-in with the appropriate form (and presented later on PPT slides). The students will be tasked to drag the right words into the blanks.

For the closing activity, the students will be divided (for instance) into groups of six. Each group will receive flash-cards with different verbs. They will be assigned to structure sentences — while using the proper V 2 form.

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Teaching  Grammar: Past Simple  to the 8th grade
The reading/writing learning style model  posits that pupils with this preference
will learn by the traditional method of teacher explaining and writing on board and giving pupils worksheets and print outs with summaries of the material while pupils read and write to learn.
Activities conducive to this  mode: Give pupils  hand-out rules of past simple
rules and also lists of  the past participles.
They can group irregular verbs by look them up and copying them in some order:
to walk     walked                                         ~ to talk   talked
to bend     bent                                              ~ to spend  spent      ~to lend    lent
to begin    began                                           ~ to run   ran
to write     wrote
to get         got
to plan        planned                                     ~to scan   scanned
to read        read  (pronounced red)
to feed        fed                                             ~ to bleed  bled           ~to lead   led
to choose   chose
A drill to memorize irregular verbs is to write ten times each verb (past participle) and its past simple and then write sentences in past simple for each irregular verb.
Teacher will frontally teach pupils the formulas orally to explain structure while pupils take notes.
Teacher will write on the board examples using past simple in positive, negative and question form for pupils to copy
Homework will be to read upon  past simple on English websites such as www,bbclearningenglish,com  to help students further process information or
dictate this succinct explanation on past simple from a website:

he PAST SIMPLE tense used to talk about habitual actions, behaviour, or situations that happened or existed before now. The simple past of regular verbs consists of the infinitive with ‘-d’ or ‘-ed’ added, for example ‘arrived’ in the sentence ‘She arrived yesterday’. The auxiliary ‘did’ is used in questions and negatives, for example in the sentences ‘Did you see that?’ and ‘Sometimes his plans did not succeed’.

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/the-past-simple?q=past+simple [accessed 19.11.17]

Writing a " Dear Diary" admission in past  simple of how your day was and what  you did today using past simple (written reflection using grammar structure)
Have class copy into their notebooks bullets about the meaning, use and form of thistense.
Give them a Dictation- so they write the sentences correctly in past simple.
Let them make columns in their notebook of  the different groups of verbs in terms of how they are conjugated in past simple.
Instruct pupils to open text books and read story silently/orally of an event that occurred, in a story in past simple. Then pupils can summarize the story in past simple in their notebook.
EXAMPLE: Have students read from the whiteboard and then write in their notebooks to internalize their understanding conjugation patterns:
to be       to have       to walk      to go     to do   to become
I /he/ she/it       was.......had...........walked.....went.....did....became
You/we/they     were.....had............walked.....went....did....became

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The Kinesthetic Approach to learning the Past Simple tense
- Four ideas for learning English which enhance the Kinesthetic  Sense include;
1. Students prepare a short skit that makes use of the past simple tense.
2 Students will make a mock interview between a reporter and a eye witness to a current event using questions and answers in the past simple tense.
3. Using a series of sequential pictures, the student will put the pictures in order of the events and write a paragraph describing what happened in the past simple tense.
4. The students create flash cards with different parts of speech, ( noun, verb, adjective, etc.) and then build sentences with the words in past simple tense.