; What’s the matter ?

Lesson Plan Estimated time:

Class: 7 th Unit :
Textbook:
Standards, objectives and competencies targeted:

By the end of this session, students should be able

to:
- acquire vocab related to incidents- illnesses
rules
- fill in gaps with the appropriate items
-elicit grammar structure from text
-read for details

-GRAMMAR N FUNCTIONS : Past simple : regular

-irregular verb : finished actions in the past

Stage/Time Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

Hey my friends ; I point at my own body : do you know what we Ss label pictures of the body parts .
Pre-stage reading call this ? expected answer : human body . It has got many parts like 2mins
the eyes , the mouth … ok I’d like you to label pics in your Ss label pictures of illnesses .2 mins
worksheets task 1 .

After labelling the pictures , I ask a s to the board and go over the
body parts with the class : I point and they say the name of the part .
Aim : acquire body parts vocab
Part 2 : I ask a s out and I ask him to pretend to have a stomach
ache . I ask him ; what’s the matter ? he answers : I have a stomach
ache .

I kindly ask him to return , then I tell my students : what’s the matter
with these people ? let’s label the pictures and find out.
Flashcard drill*
Aim ; to help ss acquire vocab related to illnesses
Ss read the dialouges in groups of 4
I ask ss to fill the gaps task n3 ; to check their understanding of the and work together to pick out the
taught vocab and to correct if need be . necessary details .
Post :
P112 : I divide the class into 4 groups ..each group is going to read a
dialogue ,and fill a table : what’s the matter , when , verbs in the text
. I shall mime actions verbs – time marker : yesterday : I write the
day .
D1 : I cut my finger , Time ; yesterday ,verbs : were, went , cut ,
gave ,covered …I elicit the past simple : when did I cut my finger ?
yesterday …I draw a line of time ; past ------present--------future
 And show them that yesterday belongs to the past . so all the verbs
in the dialogue are conjugated into the past : for regular verbs we
While-stage reading usually add ed at the end of the verb : to cover ; cover+ed , as for
gave ( to give) , cut ( to cut) are irregular verbs ( they don’t follow
the rule) and you have to memorize them.
Past simple ; finished actions in the past
Time markers ; yesterday , ago , last week , last month
I go through the other dialogues the same way . I may go over 2
only.

Activity book to consolidate past simple use .

Activity 4 on the worksheet :consolidate grammar and vocab

While skill stage

 Ss match utterances to get a coherent dialogue and enact it. Pair work

Post skill stage

Flashcards drill procedure : I place a set of flashcards on the board

and we go over them together ..everytime I remove a card from the
board and yet I include it in the drills n till every card is taken off
and they remember all of them .