LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Alecsandrescu Monica Ionela

School: Scoala Gimnaziala Nr. 2 Boboci, Picior de Munte
Date: April 25th , 2013
Class: V (L1)
Textbook: Snapshot Elementary
Unit 17: Did you talk about me?
Lesson: Past Simple of regular verbs
Type of lesson: Grammar lesson
Time: 50 minutes
Aims:
At the end of the lesson students should be able to:
- recognize regular verbs in the past tense in different contexts;
- use these verbs to make sentences of their own;
- pronounce and spell correctly regular verbs in the past simple.
Skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking
Methods: conversation, observation, pairwork, groupwork, explanation, repetition, game,
learning by doing.
Aids: flipchart, worksheets, blackboard, handouts, textbook, powerpoint presentation.
Type of interaction: teacher-students, student-teacher, student-student
Types of exercises: matching exercise, making sentences, puzzle, conversation exercise
Class organization: lockstep, pairwork, groupwork, whole class

Stages of the lesson

Nr.
Crt.

Lesson
stages
Organizing
the class

Time

Teachers activity

Students activity

Aims

Methods

Materials

The teacher greets the

students; she asks them
Who is on duty today?
etc. The teacher checks if
there are any absents and
prepares for the lesson.

The students greet the

teacher. They answer
the teachers
questions.
The student on duty
announces the absents
(if there are any).

-to create a
proper
atmosphere
for
teaching
the new
lesson

conversation

-roll

2.

Homework
check-up

The teacher asks the

students What was your
homework for today?.
The teacher names some
students to read the
homework. She checks it.
The teacher asks the
students: Have you
checked your
homework?

-to check
the
mistakes

conversation

3.

Warm-up

The teacher shows

students some sentences
on a ppt presentation:
She listened to music
yesterday; We watched
T.V. last night; They
arrived at 10 o clock.

The students answer

the questions and read
the homework
(exercise 8, page 95).
They had to complete
the sentences using
correct past forms of
the verb to be.
The students go to the
blackboard and write
the answer.
The students look at
the sentences and
answer the teachers
question. Possible
answer: They have
-ed at the end

1.

-to
introduce
students to
the topic of
the lesson.

conversation

Class
organization
-whole class

Interaction

-textbook
-blackboard

-whole class

Teacher
Student,
Student Teacher

-ppt
presentatio
n
-blackboard
-handouts

-whole class
-individual
work

Teacher
Student,
Student Teacher

Teacher
Student,
Student Teacher

She tells them to read the

sentences carefully and
look at the verbs. Then
she asks: What can you
tell me about the verbs?
4.

5.

Lead-in

Activity 1
practice

15

The teacher tells them

that they are going to talk
about The Past Simple.
She writes the title of the
lesson on the blackboard.
She asks them to look at
the sentences again and
see if they can extract the
rule.
The teacher listens to
their answers and corrects
if necessary. Then she
writes the rule on the
blackboard/shows the rule
on the presentation.

The students write the

title, read the
sentences again and
say the rule. Possible
answer:
subject+verb1+ed
The students write the
rule in their notebooks.

-to arouse
students
interest in
the topic.

The teacher shows

students the sentences in
the negative and
interrogative and elicits
the rules from the
students.
Then the teacher
discusses the spelling and
pronunciation rules, and

The students answer

the teachers questions
and write the answers
in their notebooks.
After writing the rules,
the students solve the
exercises on the
presentation and go to
the blackboard to write

-to
introduce
the forms
and rules of
the Past
Simple.
- to be able
to apply the
rules in

-listening
conversation

conversation
-writing
-reading

-tape
-blackboard

-whole class

-worksheet
-ppt
presentatio
n

-pairwork

Teacher
Student,
Student Teacher
StudentStudent

Teacherstudent
Studentstudent

then tells students to solve

the exercises for each
rule.
She also tells them to look
at the sentences from the
last exercise on the
presentation and explains
that they have to put the
sentences into the past
simple. They have to
work in pairs.

the correct answers.

exercises..

-to be able
to make
sentences
with the
new words.

6.

Activity 2:
reading

The teacher gives some

worksheets with a small
text. She explains the
exercise: the students
have to read the text and
find all the regular verbs
in the text. They have to
work in groups and the
group that finds all the
verbs is the winner.

In groups, students
find the verbs and
write them on the
blackboard.

-to
identify
regular
past
simple
verbs
from a
short
text/in
context;

-writing
-reading

-worksheet
-blackboard

-pairwork

Teacher
Student,
StudentStudent

7.

Activity 3:
speaking

10

The teacher gives students

a puzzle containing
regular verbs. The
students have to find all
the regular verbs and
write sentences with each

Students find the

verbs, write the
sentences and read
them in front of the
class.

-to be able
to make
their own
sentences
using verbs
in the past

-speaking
-writing

-worksheet

-role-play

Teacher
Student,
Student Teacher

one.
8.

9.

Homework

Dismissing
students

The students are given a

worksheet with an
exercise: the students
have to write the past
tense forms of the given
verbs and use them to
complete a letter. The
teacher gives examples.

Students get grades.

Greetings

simple
The students write the
homework and the
examples in the
notebooks.

Greetings

-to practise
using verbs
in the past
simple.

conversation

-worksheet

-whole class

Teacher students