Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 340 views

    2 Simple Past

    Uploaded by

    api-279690289
    1. The 45-minute lesson plan aimed to teach beginner level students about using verbs in the simple past tense. 2. The objectives were for students to be able to write verbs in the past form, understand the timeline of the past tense, and participate through discussions and group work. 3. The lesson involved asking students about their past activities, presenting a grammar explanation with examples, drilling past verb forms, an individual exercise to practice, and a group story-writing activity to activate the new knowledge.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    2 Simple Past

    Uploaded by

    api-279690289
    340 views3 pages
    1. The 45-minute lesson plan aimed to teach beginner level students about using verbs in the simple past tense. 2. The objectives were for students to be able to write verbs in the past form, understand the timeline of the past tense, and participate through discussions and group work. 3. The lesson involved asking students about their past activities, presenting a grammar explanation with examples, drilling past verb forms, an individual exercise to practice, and a group story-writing activity to activate the new knowledge.

    Original Title

    2 simple past

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    1. The 45-minute lesson plan aimed to teach beginner level students about using verbs in the simple past tense. 2. The objectives were for students to be able to write verbs in the past form, understand the timeline of the past tense, and participate through discussions and group work. 3. The lesson involved asking students about their past activities, presenting a grammar explanation with examples, drilling past verb forms, an individual exercise to practice, and a group story-writing activity to activate the new knowledge.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    340 views3 pages

    2 Simple Past

    Uploaded by

    api-279690289
    1. The 45-minute lesson plan aimed to teach beginner level students about using verbs in the simple past tense. 2. The objectives were for students to be able to write verbs in the past form, understand the timeline of the past tense, and participate through discussions and group work. 3. The lesson involved asking students about their past activities, presenting a grammar explanation with examples, drilling past verb forms, an individual exercise to practice, and a group story-writing activity to activate the new knowledge.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 3

    Lesson: Simple Past

    Time: 45minutes

    Level: Beginner

    Date: 19/2/2015

    Materials: White Board, Markers, Power Point Presentation, Story passage exercise sheets and simple past exercise sheets.

    Objectives:
    To ensure that beginner level students are able to:
    1. Write the verb in the simple past form.
    2. Understand the timeline of the simple past.
    3. Actively participate in class through class discussions and
    group work

    Stage/Aims

    Teachers: Areej Mughal

    Time

    T/S
    T/S

    Anticipated problems for Teacher:


    1. T may have trouble running into irregular verb endings when dealing with the
    simple past.
    Solution: T will stay strictly on task and avoid irregular verbs until the next
    lesson which will elaborate on irregular verb endings. T will stick to simple
    verbs which end with the ed ending.
    Anticipated problems for Students:
    1. Ss may have Pronunciation problems regarding past participle verbs with the
    ed endings.
    Solution: Choral drilling of simple past verbs.

    Teacher Activity
    T will ask the class what they did yesterday or the day before.
    T will give an example answer to the Ss:
    T will say I talked to my friend on the phone yesterday

    Lead in
    (Engage stage,
    Warm up)

    ST

    T will ask all Ss to answer the given question.

    7mins
    T/S,
    S/T

    T/S

    T will ask Ss:


    T will ask gist questions:
    What was common about all statements?
    Were the answers related to things which took place in the past?
    Which ending did you notice with the verb?
    T will present the grammar concept in a PowerPoint presentation.
    T will explain the definition of a past simple tense as:
    Past simple is used to describe actions which started and ended in the past.

    T will write the basic structure of the past simple tense (Verb + ed)

    T will present a verb chart with a conversion from the basic verb form to the past.

    Grammar
    (Study)

    15mins

    T/S

    T/S,
    S/T
    T/S,
    S/T

    10mins

    T/S,
    S/T

    Verb
    Walk
    Talk
    Listen
    Look
    Wave
    Type
    Wait
    Live
    Play
    Fix

    Verb + ed
    Walked
    Talked
    Listened
    Looked
    Waved
    Typed
    Waited
    Lived
    Played
    fixed

    T will chorally drill the ed words used in the PowerPoint presentation to avoid pronunciation problems.
    T will ask CCQs to make sure that the students understand the concept.
    Is the ed ending added to words of the present simple tense? Yes or No?
    Can a noun be used in a past simple grammar structure? Yes or No? Why?

    T will hand out gap fill exercise sheets which will consist of 20 questions.
    T will instruct the Ss with the following instructions:
    Ss will be required to complete the exercise sheet individually. Ss will look at the question and fill in the appropriate verb in
    the past tense while using the hint at the end of each sentence.
    I.e. She ________ in the park (Walk)
    T will wrap up the exercise by asking Ss to read out the correct answers. T will monitor and correct Ss accordingly.

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pairwork Activity.
    (Activate)

    T will ask the students to form groups of three to encourage pair work.
    T will give each group an exercise sheet which will consist of a story that is two paragraphs long. The story will be written
    in the present tense and Ss will be required to write the story into the past tense using the proper grammar.
    13mins

    T/S,
    S/S,
    S/T

    T will ask ICQs to check if Ss are on track:


    How many people in one group?
    We are changing the present tense to which tense?
    How much time do we have?
    Ss will be required to read their story out loud to the class by the end of the activity.

    You might also like