Lesson plan

School: „Matei Gr. Vladeanu”

Date: 22 nd November 2018
Class: 7th
Level: pre-intermediate
Teacher: Neculoiu Georgiana Diana
Time: 50’
Textbook: Snapshot Pre-intermediate
Unit 6: The car was sinking
Lesson: Past simple and past progressive
Type of lesson: consolidation of knowledge
Lesson aims:
 to revise the past simple

 to revise the past progressive;

 to distinguish between the past simple and the past progressive;

 to use the past simple and the past progressive in communication;

Subsidiary aims:

 to practise the work in pairs;

 to practise group work;

 to practise listening, speaking, reading, writing;

 to describe pictures.

Skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing.

Teaching aids: the textbook, handouts, pupils’ notebooks, the blackboard, computer, CD,
flipchart, notes.

Methods: conversation, reading, explanation, elicitation, description, discovery.

Modes of interaction: whole class activity, individual work, pair work, group work;

Anticipated problems:

 The students could become a bit noisy when working in groups; some of them (the
dominant ones) may try to answer too often and exclude the others.
 Some students may not understand the task given by the teacher;

Possible solutions:

 The teacher may ask students to take turns in giving the answer.
 The teacher may repeat or rephrase the task so that all students understand it; if
students still do not understand the oral commands or the tasks, they will be translated
into Romanian.

Feedback:

Both the teacher and the students provide continuous feed back through observation.
The teacher checks that the students complete the tasks entirely and correctly at any stage of
the lesson, she gives extra explanations whenever necessary, she monitors certain students in
order to prevent possible problems.
WARM-UP

Activity 1,checking the homework

Procedure: The teacher greets the the students and they greet back. The teacher asks for
absentees. The students on duty name the absentees if there are any.

The teacher checks up homework. The students had to do exercise 1 a, page 37. They
had to match the sentences with the pictures to retell the story in the lesson. In order to check
students’ task completion, the teacher asks them to read the sentences in the correct order. The
teacher uses peer correction.

Timing: 5 minutes

PRESENTATION

Activity 2, watching a video

Aim: To introduce the new lesson

Procedure: The teacher plays a video where the simple past and the past progressive are used.
The teacher pauses the video at a certain point, asking the students to say what the people in
the video were doing. Then she continues playing the video, allowing the students to check if
their answers were true.

The teacher announces the aims of the lesson and writes the title on the blackboard: Revision
past simple and past progressive.

Teacher’s role: organiser

Skills: listening, speaking

Materials: computer, CD

Class management: whole class activity;

Timing: 5 minutes

Activity 3, sentence halves

Aim: To revise the past simple and the past progressive in point of form

Procedure: The teacher asks the students to continue some sentence halves, using the past
simple or the past progressive as necessary.

Yesterday, when the accident happened, the children were learning English.

or

While she was playing the flute, the mechanic was repairing the car.

The teacher asks the students to say what they were doing yesterday, making them use
the two tenses. The teacher asks a few students to write their sentences on the blackboard.

The teacher corrects the mistakes if any. The teacher also reminds the students the
correct spelling of some –ing forms: hitting, dancing.

Teacher’s role: organiser;

Skills: speaking, writing;

Materials: blackboard, students’notebooks;

Class management: whole class activity;

Timing: 7 minutes.

Activity 4, revision of the two tenses

Aim: To revise the past simple and the past progressive – form and use

Procedure: The teacher asks the students to identify the past simple verbs in the sentences on
the blackboard and she underlines them. She then asks the students to remember the use of the
simple past.

Use: we use the simple past to talk about completed actions in the past.
The teacher asks the students to identify the other tense used in the sentences on the
blackboard. The students recognize the past progressive tense. The teacher asks the students
to remember the form and use of the past progressive

Use: we use the past progressive tense to talk about actions which were in progress at a
particular moment in the past.

The actions can be:

interrupted – when …

Happening at the same time – while…or as I……..

The teacher shows students a poster with the presentation of the two tenses and the students
write the information in their notebooks.

Teacher’s role: organiser

Skills: speaking, writing;

Materials: poster, blackboard, pupils' notebooks;

Class management: whole class activity;

Timing: 6 minutes

PRACTICE

Activity 5, listening to a song

Aim: to practise the past simple and progressive in point of form

Procedure: The teacher gives students a worksheet. She explains that they are going to listen
to a song and fill in the required information. The teacher plays the song and while listening
to it, the students choose the right form of the given verbs. After listening to the song, the
students answer reading –comprehension questions.

The students are asked to arrange the given sentences to make the short story of the song,
using the past simple and the past progressive. They work in pairs. The teacher uses peer
correction.
Skills: listening, speaking

Materials: computer, CD, worksheets

Class management: whole class activity;

Timing: 10 minutes

PRODUCTION

Activity 6, making short stories using the past simple and the past progressive

Aims: To use the past simple and the past progressive in context

Procedure: The students work in groups; they are given different tasks because they are at
different proficiency levels: some are asked to match the sentences with the pictures and put
them in the right order to create a story, some are asked to make a short story using the given
cues and others are asked to write a story starting from a picture.

When the students have accomplished their task, each group choose a representative who
comes in front of the class and reads the story.

Teacher’s role: prompter

Skills: writing , speaking;

Materials: worksheets

Class management: group work;

Timing: 15 minutes

Activity 7, Evaluating and assigning homework

The teacher makes remarks on the students’ activity during the English class and
marks some students with grades.

The teacher announces the homework: exercise 5b page 38 and 5c page 39.

Timing: 2 minutes