LESSON PLAN

Nampula Secondary School

Date: June 2nd , 2022
Subject: English Language Teacher: Micas Albino Mbanze
Unity: Famous People and Idols Grade 12, Stream “A”
Topic: Famous People in the World Length of the lesson: 45 minutes

Language focus: The Past Simple Tense Number of Students: 42

General Objective:
By the end of this lesson, students shall be able to:
• Express themselves in their real life using the Past Simple Tenses.

Specific Objectives: Students will be able to:

• Identify verbs in their Past Tense in a sentence;

• Form the Simple Past Tense by adding -e/-ed (for regular verbs);
• Understand an event description in its Past Simple Tense.

Prior Knowledge Expected:

• Be familiar with the concept of the Past Simple Tense.
 Class Activities Methodology Rationale
Stage Teacher Students Techniques Teaching
( Time) aids
- Teacher allows the students to - Students share their -To draw attention to the
➢ read compare the two sets of sentences. observations in class. - Discussion - Black board difference in form in the
Warm-up ➢ compar Teacher discusses the simple simple presente and
(5 minutes) e presente and simple past in class. - Chalk simple past tenses
➢ infer
- Teacher writes a few exemple - Students listen to the - To familiarise the
Presentation • define sentences using the simple past on teacher's explaination. - Inference - Black board students with the simple
(10 minutes) • compar the board. presente, simple past and
- Teacher discusses the form of - Students provide their - Chalk futere tenses
e
own exemple sentences
• construc the Simple Past Tense.
using the Simple Past
t
Tense form.

- Teacher instructs the students to - Students complete the - Black board - To ensure students can
Practice • gap-fill fill in the gaps with the correct task and compare their - Application change the form of the
(20 minutes) • Role- form of the verbs given in answers in the class. - Chalk verb to simple presente,
brackets. Students perform the task. simple past and simple
play
future.
- Teacher discusses the answers in
- To help students
class. - Worksheets
correctly use of the three
- Teacher instructs the students to diferente tenses in
fill in gaps with the correct form sentences
of te verb.
• apply -Teacher hands out the worksheet - Students attempt the - to assess students’
Production • gap-fill with an exercise to fill in the gaps exercise. -Independent - Black board ability to correctly use
(10 with the right form of the verb. activity - Chalk verbs in the simple
minutes) - Worksheets presente, simple past and
simple future tenses
- Gap-filling
Rubric for assessment
Aspect Good Satisfactory To some Extent Unsatisfactory
Student is a ble to identify
the tense of a given verb.

Student is able to change

the verb to the simple past
tense by adding -d/ -ed in
case of regular verbs.

Student is able to build a

sentence using the Simple
Past Tense to describe past
events in real life.

Prepared by: Checked by:

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Micas Albino Mbanze Msc. Samuel Canda