Description of class 'Meša Selimović’ primary school : 25-27 students; V1, V2, V3, V4, V5 ages 11 to 12

Date December 2008

Teaching unit Our health ; the good old days
25. Doctor and dentists
Type of lesson Presentation

Sources Project 2 , SB, WB, TB

Aims and goals To practise affirmative and negative form of the past simple tense
To contrast affirmative and negative form
Correcting statements about the past
To improve student’s vocabulary
To improve student’s reading and listening

Methods Work on text

Task based method
Communicative
Ask and Answer
Class management Individual work SSS
Pair work
Frontal work
Teaching aids, SB, WB, Poster, Pencil, Notebook, Board, Chalk
materials and
equipment

Procedure Introductory part, main part & final part.

Additional plan Grammar project; Contrast between affirmative and negative form of the past simple tense

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 Aims and objectives Class organization procedure and activities Teaching Possible Possible Timing
partIntroductory aids problems solutions
Teacher writes words dentist on the board and Board They know Teacher
To improve student’s asks students to suggest any word that they Photographs many facts helps
vocabulary associate with this. but they them to
She explains them ‘’drill, anesthetic, filling, need help say. 7'
Talking about dentist instrument and surgery among other words. to say that.
She demonstrates those words.
Then she asks students:
‘’Do you like dentist? Why / Why not?
Main part

Teacher asks students to open their SB on SB Some Teacher

To improve student’s reading. page 36 and gives them a few moments to Notebook students walks
look at the text and pictures. Then she plays Pencil write too around
To improve student’s the tape for students to listen and read the Board slow. the class
vocabulary text. Chalk helps 10
Students should answer on six questions into Tape them and
their notebooks. They listen to the tape again recorder waits
to check their answers. CD them to
finish.
She asks students to copy and complete the SB Some Teacher
To practise the affirmative gapped table into their notebooks. She also Pencil students takes
and negative form of the past does it on the board. When they’ve finished Board don’t use chalk
simple tense she discusses with the class how the negative Chalk correctly and
of the past simple is made by the auxiliary the present explains
To compare the past simple didn’t + verb stem, and compares this with simple and them 9’
with the present simple the negative of the present simple tense. the past again
Past simple – affirmative (+) and negative(-) simple some
+Rich people ate a lot of sugar. tense. examples
-Poor people didn’t eat a lot of sugar. on the
b) Then students come up and complete the board.
table on the board. She points out to the class
that the auxiliary didn’t is used with the stem
verb, and that we cannot use form I didn’t
went. It’s incorrect.
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 c) She asks students to work with a partner to
correct the sentences. They should do the first
without looking back, and then check their
answers by referring to previous sections of 5’
the project. Teacher goes through answers
with the class, writing them on the board as
the students give them to teacher.
To practice questions with do Teacher asks students to look at the pictures.
and does Teacher goes through the pictures one by one SB Students Teacher
and asks students to say what is happening in Pencil don’t know writes
each. Notebook some new them on
b) Teacher checks any difficulties with new words. the 9’
words. She asks students to put pictures in the board.
correct order. Teacher checks the answers She says
with the class. and asks
them to
repeat
after her.
Final part

To practice the present simple Students listen to the story again. This time Tape Some of Teacher
and the present continuous some of it is wrong. They should say what is recorder them don’t asks
tense wrong. CD understand. them to
listen 5’
carefully.