Lesson plan

The Past Tense Continuous

School:

Teacher:

Date:

Grade: 7th

Number of students:

Book: Limba moderna 1 engleza , Uniscan , Jenny Dooley

Topic: Past Continuous

Type of lesson: Grammar lesson

Main focus: to talk about past events

Skills: speaking, writing, reading, listening

Methods: conversation, explanation, dialogue, exercise

Teaching aids: flipchart, handouts, , markers, book

Time: 50 minutes

Aims:

 to get the students involved in the topic;

 to give Ss practice in using the past continuous tense;
 to develop students’ listening skills;
 to develop students’ writing skills;
 to develop students’ communication skills.
Evaluation: - continue - through activities, observation, error correction

- final - through feed-back

Stage of lesson/ Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Interaction Ski

Timing me
1. Organizati Teacher greets the students, and then asks The students greet the teacher and tell T –Ss - sp
onal if is anibody missing. the absentees .
moment -re
The teacher ask if the Ss had a homework The Ss say which was their
Checking the to do.Then the T and the Ss check the homework,and correct the exercise -expla
homework/ homework together. with the T.
3min
2. The T asks the Ss to remember how the The Ss answer the teachers question T – Ss - sp
Checking the past simple is formed and to give examples and give examples of sentences using
previous of sentences. the past simple.
knowledge/ 4min
Ss alone

3.Introduction of Once they remembered about the Past The Ss write the date and the title in T – Ss - sp
the new topic/ Simple,the T tells the Ss that they will their notebooks.
20min learn today the Past Continuous. The T
writes the date and the title on the flipchart. The students write all the forms of the -w
The T writes on the flipchart the Past Continuous in their notebooks, Ss alone
affirmative,the negative,the interrogative, they are paying attention to teacher’s
the short answers and some uses of Past explanations, and write the examples -expl
Continuous tense, explains the Ss its form in their notebooks.
and gives them some examples. Ss solve the exercises on boards with
affirmative: S+was/were+Ving their T. T-Ss -w
negative: S+was/were+not+Ving
interrogative: Was/were+S+Ving
 Eg:1. Yesterday at two o’clock I was
sleeping.
2. I wasn’t reading a book when you
called me.
3. Were they going on a trip last week-
end?
The T shows the Ss a power point
presentation about the past continuous
tense.
T solves two exercises with the Ss from
two boards to see if they understood.
4. Exercise with The T asks the Ss to do exercise 1,page 38 The named S T – Ss -re
the new topic/ and exercise 3 from page 39 orally. give the correct answer to his/her
10min The T asks the Ss to tell few hours classmate’s question by putting the -sp
with some verbs,and then they put the verb on Past Continuous Tense.
question: „What were you doing yesterday Ss alone
at four o clock?” to another student.The Ss
must answer by putting the verb on Past
Continuous Tense.

5.Feed-back and T shows the Ss a handout with exercises Ss do the handout with their T. T – Ss
discussion/ where they have a story about a detective -re
10min which is interviewing some animals about
yesterday night because there was a -w
robbery.The T explains the Ss that they Ss alone
must match the bubbles with the
animals,and find more excuses for the
animals.

6. The T tells the Ss to solve for home The Ss write in their notebooks their T – Ss - liste
Homework/ exercise 4 from page 39 homework.
2min - writi
Ss alone

8. T appreciats the activity. The Ss also say „Good-bye” to the T-Ss -lis
Evaluation/ Then the teacher says „Good-bye”. teacher.
1min -sp