Lesson plan

Text book: Snapshot

Teacher: Iordache Mihaela
School: Scoala Scundu
Date: May, 17th 2006
Grade: 5th form
Level: beginner
Previous lesson: The past simple tense
New lesson: Practice of the simple past tense
Aims: Revising and practicing the words linked to weather, practicing the
simple past tense of irregular verbs, getting used the children to talk about a past
event, practicing all the forms of past tense
Time: 50 minutes
Classroom management: Student-centred
Types of interaction: Teacher-students, students-students
Skills: Listening, reading, writing, speaking
Audio-visual aids: pictures, handouts
Strategies: Exercise, conversation, questionnaire
Types of activities: Pair work, individual work, w2hole class
Warm up activities: The students are asked to fill in a puzzle with words from
the previous lesson and to speak about the weather in the pictures which will be
shown
Subsidiary aims: Encouraging students to use their English, teaching students
how to speak about a past event
Evaluation: oral evaluation
Vocabulary: warm, cloudy, rain, sunny, wet, windy, cold, hot, snow, foggy, to
miss, cry for help, beach, to dial, statement, wallet
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Time Step (Skill)

1
GREETING

10

WARM UP

Activities
The teacher enters the
classroom and greets the
children: Good morning
children!
a) The students are asked to
solve a puzzle containing
words about the weather
from the previous lesson. By
making use of a set of
handouts, the teacher asks the
students to fill in the puzzle.
To make the task easier, on
the handouts there are some
definitions about the weather.
The definitions are:
1. In
autumn
its
________
2. When its raining its
_______
3. In
spring
its
____________
4. In
summer
its
___________
5. When its sunny, you
wear a ____ on your
head.
6. The _________ in
Bucharest
is
20
degrees Centigrade.
7. The ______ is good
for plants.

Subsidiary aims
The students greet
their teacher in
their turn: Good
morning children!
The
students
answer
the
teachers questions
using the already
taught
notions
about the weather
and they have to
fill in the puzzle
from
the
blackboard.
The
students answer to
the
teachers
questions about the
weather using the
specific structure.

10

b) The teacher shows the

students
some
pictures
representing types of weather
and students respond to the
teachers questions about the
weather
using
the
construction: Whats the
weather like in picture 1? Its

HOMEWORK
The teacher asks the students
CHECK-UP
about their homework and
checks if they have written it,
corrects
the
grammar
mistakes they made and
names some students to read
their
homework
which
consisted in translating the
following sentences into
English:
1. Era frig in Londra ieri.
2. Noi am fost la Paltinis
duminica trecuta.
3. Elevii
au
studiat
trecutul simplu ieri.
4. Tatal meu a cumparat
o masina noua.
5. Colega mea de banca a
spart o vaza saptamana
trecuta.
6. Jim nu a venit la
scoala.
PRACTICE
The teacher asks the students
(READING AND to open their books at page
SPEAKING)
106 and to solve exercise 6.
The teacher reads the text
about Luke Freeman, and
then she nominates some
students who will read the
text. She corrects their
pronunciation. The teacher
asks the students to identify
the verbs which are used in
the past tense and to write

The
students
answer to the
teachers
questions.
The
nominated students
read the sentences
paying attention to
the
teachers
correction. They
make
all
the
necessary
corrections in their
notebooks.

The students open

their books at page
106 and listen to
the
teachers
reading
paying
attention to the
pronunciation. The
nominated students
read the text aloud.
They recognize the
verbs used in the
past tense writing
3

some of the sentences on the some

sentences
blackboard and in their containing them on
notebooks.
the blackboard and
in their notebooks.
PRACTICE
The teacher asks the students The students read
GRAMMAR
to solve exercise 7 from page and solve exercise
106. They have to put in 7 paying attention
order some sentences that are to the order of
linked to the previous text. events happened in
They have to find out the the story. The
correct order of events of the named
students
text and it summarises the answer to the
story. The following exercise teachers questions
is concerned with the use of and read aloud the
some past tense forms of sentences in the
irregular verbs. The students correct order.
have to solve exercise 8 on The students try to
page 107. They have to solve the next
complete the mans statement exercises paying
with the past simple forms of attention to the
the verbs in brackets. This irregular forms of
type of exercise is meant to the
verbs
in
get pupils to use the past brackets.
tense and to get them used to
talk about a past tense event.
COMMUNICATVE The teacher asks the students The students work
ACTIVITY
to try to solve exercise 8b. in pairs of two and
They will have to work in they take part in
pairs to ask and answer conversation. The
questions about the text. aim of this activity
Some of the students will be is to encourage
asked to come in front of the students to speak
class and to act their in English and to
dialogue. The aim of this use
the
new
exercise is to make the language structures
students use the interrogative taught
by
the
form of the past simple. The teacher. They solve
students use the cue words exercise 8b paying
given in the exercise to build attention to the
the questions.
interrogative form
of the past tense
simple.

PRACTICE

PRACTICE

HOMEWORK

The teacher asks the students

to
solve
an
exercise
concerning the past tense
simple. They are given an
exercise and they have to
turn the sentences into the
negative. The sentences are
written on the blackboard
and
in
the
students
notebooks. The aim of this
exercise is to make students
aware of the negative form of
the past simple. The given
sentence are:
1. I gave my cousin a
birthday present.
2. Kathy
brought
a
beautiful dog at home.
3. We chose to spend our
holiday in London.
4. I decided to walk
along the beach.
The teacher asks the students
to find the past tense forms
of some verbs which are
hidden in a crossword puzzle
and they are asked to name
the found words. This puzzle
is given to them on some
handouts.
The teacher indicates the
homework for the next
lesson. The students have to
write some sentences about a
recent event that happened to
them.

The students write

the sentences on
their
notebooks
and try to solve
them. Some of the
students come to
the blackboard and
write the correct
sentences.
The
students correct the
mistakes, if there
are any. They pay
attention to the use
of the negative
form of past tense.

The students try to

find the irregular
forms of the verbs
hidden
in
the
crossword. They
read the words
aloud.
The students write
down
the
homework
indicated by the
teacher.