LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Ureche Gabriela

Form: 7th grade

Topic: Present Simple VS Past Simple

Time: 45’

Teaching aims: -to enable students to use the Present Perfect Simple and Past Simple when it’s
needed
-to develop students’ reading abilities
-to enable students to talk about past events using one of these tenses

Learning aims: -the students will be able to expose coherently their opinions
- the students will be able to talk about present events using correctly the tenses
-the students will be able to use correctly the forms of the Present Perfect Simple
and Past Simple

Exponents: Grammatical structures: Present Simple (to have), Present Perfect Simple, Past
Simple

Anticipated problems: The students usually omit the form “has” when using the verb in the
Present Tense Simple, 3rd person, sg. The students build the second and third form of some
irregular verbs by adding the particle “-ed” as they do with the regular verbs.

Skills: Listening, Speaking, Writing, Reading.

Interaction: Teacher-Students
Student-Student

Aids: textbook, exercises

Attitude: The teacher encourages the students to answer to her questions, keeping eye contact
when necessary

Evaluation: initial- warm-up

continue- activities
final- written
 Procedure
Stages/Timin Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Skills
g
The teacher greets the students. The students greet the teacher.
Warm-up Speaking
5’ The teacher tells to his students to read The students read their homework. T-Ss
their homework. IW

Initial practice Taking some sentences as example, The students write the forms. Speaking
13’ the students must remember and write Ss-Ss
on the blackboard the affirmative, IW
negative and interrogative forms of the The students remember the usage of
Present Simple and Past Simple. each present tense.
After remembering the forms the
students must remember from the The students make two differing lists
anterior lesson the usage of each tense. with adverbs.
The students have to tell some
adverbs used with each tense.
Secondary The teacher asks them to make pairs The students solve the exercise. Writing
Practice and to solve exercise 1, page 110. Speaking
7’ T-Ss
Ss-Ss
PW
Further The teacher gives to the students The students solve the exercises. Reading
practice worksheets to solve together. The Writing
13’ worksheets include exercises with T-Ss
both tenses. PW
Feedback The Teacher asks the students: Have The students answer and tell their Speaking
Evaluation you enjoyed the topic for today? opinion.
3’ Why/why not? IW
The teacher tells the students the most
frequent mistakes that he noticed Listening
during the course.
Homework The Teacher to write a composition Students note their homework. Writing
2’ using verbs at both Present Perfect IW
Simple and Past Simple describing a
funny memory from their early
childhood.