Lesson Plan: Intermediate Grammar

Ayaka Kisu

Class​ ​Intermediate​ ​Date​ ​March 3, 2020

Time:​ 60 minutes

Lesson Objective:​ Talk about what students did at the weekend. (In the conversation with other
students, students will be evaluated on the following content: using the right form of the verbs in
the sentences, being able to ask and answer what they did on weekend.)

Language Skills:
Past tense (regular and irregular verbs)
Vocabulary: eat-ate, sing-sang, run-ran, swim-swam, read-read, write-wrote,
go-went, do-did, play-played, watch-watched, study-studied,
dance-danced, clean-cleaned, cook-cooked, walk-walked

Life Skills:
A daily conversation about what they did on the weekend

Materials:
- Picture cards for each verb
- Notebooks
- Pencils

Equipment:
- Blackboard
- Chalk

Stages of the Lesson:

Warm-Up/Review​ (5 minutes)
From previous lessons, review the past tense of be verbs and when to use the tense in our daily
conversation.

Introduction
“Today we are going to talk about what we did on the weekend.”
Presentation​ (30 minutes)
1. Show the students the picture cards for each verb. Ask the learners what is happening.
2. After the students answered what is happening in the card, write the verb on the
blackboard.
3. Say the past tense of each verb and write them on the blackboard.
4. Explain that there are regular verbs and irregular verbs when making a past tense verb.
5. Suggest the rule of how to make regular verbs past tense.
6. Show that there are three ways to pronounce the ending “ed” in past tense verbs and
explain the rules.
7. Show the picture cards to the students and say the sentences using past tense verbs.
8. Have the students repeat the sentences.
9. Ask the students how to ask someone what he/she did on the weekend.
10. Write the question sentence on the blackboard.
11. Ask the students “what did you do on the weekend?” showing one card at a time.
12. Ask the class “what did you do on the weekend?” without showing the cards.
13. Have the students answer what they did on the weekend.
14. In pairs, have the students ask each other what they did on weekend and answer the
question using past tense verbs.

Practice​ (15 minutes)

1. As a whole class, review the past tense verbs and how to use them in daily conversation.
2. In pairs, have the students practice the conversation about their weekend activities
starting with greetings.

Evaluation​ (10 minutes)

1. Have each pair come to the front of the classroom and show the conversation to the
classmates.
2. Have the students in the audience listen to the conversation and write down the verbs that
were used in the presentation.