q Basic q Intermediate q Advanced

Lesson Plan
Business/Materials Lesson Objectives
Student A / Student B handouts • Students will orally demonstrate their
comprehension of past tense verbs.
• Students will create yes/no questions.
• Students will answer yes/no questions.
• Students will orally demonstrate their
comprehensions of WH questions
• Students will answer WH questions.

Warm-up and Objective Discussion

Conversationally, ask individual students what they did yesterday. Guide the conversation in
the simple past tense. Use some of the WH-questions that students will be forming later in the
lesson.

Today we will practice the simple past tense and WH-questions.

ACTIVITY 1: Instruct and Model q R q W q L q S

• Elicit a list of verbs from students; write the verbs in a list on the board.
• Ask students to form sentences in the past tense using the subject ‘I’.
• Do the same with the subject ‘you’.
• Then select one student and say to them, ‘I think you (watched TV) last night’ or ‘I
think you played soccer yesterday’. Model the student’s answer as ‘Yes, I did’ or ‘No,
I didn’t’.
• Repeat for 2-3 other verbs.
Guided Practice q R q W q L q S
• Hand out the Student A and Student B activity. Each student should have either the
Student A handout or the Student B handout.
• Students work individually (or with a partner who has the same handout) to fill in the
sentences. Student A should be working with Student A; Student B should be working
with Student B.
Independent Practice q R q W q L q S
• Put students in pairs with a student who has a different handout. Student A should be
paired with Student B.
• Students take turns reading out their statements to their partners while the other student
confirms or denies it, using the ‘Yes, I did’ / ‘No, I didn’t’ model.

Assessment q R q W q L q S
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• Call on 2-3 student pairs to read out one of their exchanges each.
• Students should speak in complete sentences to show their mastery of the past tense,
and the short answer form.

ACTIVITY 2: Instruct and Model q R q W q L q S

• Remind students how to form questions.
• Take one statement from the previous activity and turn it into a WH-question on the
board.
o e.g. ‘I think you watched American Idol on TV last night.’
à ‘What did you watch on TV last night?’
• Repeat with 1-2 other statements.

Guided Practice q R q W q L q S
• Students work with their partners to convert all of the statements on their handout to
WH-questions.
• Students should write the converted questions on a separate piece of paper to be used
in the Independent Practice activity below.

Independent Practice q R q W q L q S
• Mingle activity: Students mingle around the room to ask each of their questions to a
different person, recording the name of the person who answered along with their
response.

Assessment q R q W q L q S
• Ask, ‘What did Abdullah watch on TV last night?’
• Students should give the answer in a complete sentence to show their mastery of the
past tense.

ACTIVITY 3: Instruct and Model q R q W q L q S

• Ask students to turn to page 31 in their textbook, and look at exercise 5, Speaking &
Writing.

Guided Practice q R q W q L q S
• Instruct students to form the first question, ‘What time did you get up?’

Independent Practice q R q W q L q S
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• In pairs, students complete the activity.

Assessment q R q W q L q S
• Call on one or two pairs to model one of their question / answer exchanges.
• Students should speak in complete sentences to show their mastery of the past tense
and WH-questions.

Wrap-up/Business (5 minute explanation in class/30 minute assignment at home)

• Ask, ‘What’s your homework for Friday?’