Lesson plan

Teacher: Wagner SorinaCamelia

School: Scoala Gimnaziala
Andreesti
Form: the 7th (3rd year of study)
Date: the 27th May 2012
Timing: 50 minutes
Level: Pre-intermediate
Title of the lesson: Smuggling
in Cornwall
Subject of the lesson:The verb
used to
Lesson aims:
General:
O1: to develop students speaking abilities;
O2: to activate the students in the process of writing
and reading
Specific aims: By the end of the lesson the students
will learn
O3: to recognize used to/didnt use to and its
question form;
O4:to use the forms used to/didnt use to and its
question form in appropriate places;
O5:to produce their own sentences by using these
forms of used to.
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Skills involved: speaking, writing, reading

Aids: textbooks, copybooks, pictures, worksheets.
Interaction: teacher- students, student- student,
student- group.
Methods: critical thinking, cooperative learning,
explanation, task-sheets.
Class management:Classroom: clean, bright,
adapted to activity.
Teacher: eye-contact, friendly
attitude, appropriate
sequencing of instruction,
appropriate movement and
body language.

Procedure
Warm- up: Informal conversation concerning who is
missing. After that the teacher shows a picture of a
fat man and talks about his old habits by using used
to/ didnt use to.
PRESENTATION:
The teacher writes some sentences
about the fat man (Tom)
6 min.
on the board and underlines the key
words.
Students activity: They write the statements on the
copybooks.
Class management: Whole- class activity.
Skills: writing.
PRACTICE:
Activity2: The teacher distributes some worksheets
containing exercises con-

cerning to complete sentences with used

to/didnt use toand to
15 min.
choose the correct words.
Students activity: The students complete the
sentences on the worksheets.
Then they read in turn the given
sentences in aloud voice.
Class management: group work.
Skills: writing, reading.
Activity 3: The teacher gives the students a short
story about some characters habits and asks them to write
questions about the characters
10 min.
past habits. After that they have to
answer their questions.
Finally the teacher invites some students
to share their questions
and answers.
Students activity: The students solve their task and
some of them read the
questions and answers, and come to the board to
write them.
Class management: Pair- work
Skills: Writing, reading.
Activity 4: Dish washing day
The teacher distributes the students a
hand-out containing a
text about past habits concerning the
dish washing. The pu10 min.
have to complete the blanks with
used to.After that they
Have to read aloud the sentences and
translate the text.

Students activity: They complete the blanks and read

aloud the text.
Class management: group work.
Skills:reading, writing.
PRODUCTION:
Activity 5: The teacher asks the pupils to make up
their own sentences
5 min.
about their past habits in the childhood
and read aloud them.
Students activity: They write sentences concerning
their own past habits and then read the sentences to
the class.
Class management: individual work.
Skills: writing, reading, speaking.
HOMEWORK: The teacher gives the students as
homework the exercise 9/page 95 concerning the
life in your country in the past.4 min.