Group: 4B Student-teacher’s full name: Date: 06.03.2020 Time: 8.

30 No of students: 15
Yana Blashkun, Anastasia Ivanova, Kate
Logvynenko
Description of There are 15 students in the class. There are aged 9-10. Due to the fact the class starts at 8:30 am, students are often
Learners sleepy and unfocused. They lose an interest during reading activities and are quite noisy while doing speaking
tasks. However, they are very enthusiastic and attentive during writing. While working in groups, they often use
their first language.
Topic Household Chores. Grammar tense - Past Simple (negative, affirmative sentences) +usage

Lesson # 8

Timetable fit The lessons take place from 8:30 to 9:15 am on Tuesday and Friday. In the past lessons the students have been
learning Past Simple tense and using the affirmative/negative sentences.
Next week the class will start working on a “Weather” unit which includes dialogues role-playing, work on
weather-related lexis and write a weather forecast.
Learning By the end of the lesson students will:
Objectives  Be able to appropriately use past simple tense and verb forms (regular/irregular)
 Have practiced transforming affirmative sentences in the past simple into negative sentences and vice versa
Context, Room 106, 45 min
location and
time
Materials and Course book; handouts 1, 2, 3, 4; “Mystery Box”
References
Anticipated 1. Students may have trouble constracting affirmative sentences in the Past Simple into negative sentences and
problems and vice versa in activity 3.
solutions: I will do some writing tasks concerning this problem and give a few sentences for translation as Home
Work.
2. Students may not be able to read properly some household chores vocabulary in activity 2.
 I will do some isolation and distortion work until they pronounce and read it properly.

Time Stage Purpose Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Interac Materials

tion
Pattern
10 1st This lesson is for  Splits students into groups of  Every student takes T-S; S- “Mystery Box”,
min students to practice S handout 1
Lead-in four. Present them “A one card from the
usage of Past Simple
tense by speaking Mystery Box” which Box, reads and
about the past contains a lot of questions answers the following
in Past Simple. question.
 Monitors students’ work and  Other students listen
help where necessary. to the answer and
correct the mistakes if
its needed.

25 2st  Give your students a topic  They write a short S-S; T- Handouts 2, 3, 4;
min essay about it and S Course book
Main for thinking “What did
discuss it in pairs.
Activity you family do at  Practising
weekends?” transforming
affirmative sentences
 Ask to turn positive
in the past simple into
 sentences into negative negative sentences.
sentences (example on Present it for the
the board) whole class.
 Ask students to report of  Discuss the question
what they have heard to “Did the man have a
the whole class. good weekend?”,
 Show students a picture concerning the picture.
of a man movin the lawn.  Do the gap filling task
Start a discussion. with a story about
 Gap filling exercise man’s weekend.
 Whole class discussion  Work in pairs and
checking answers
10 3st Recollect all the  Give the students some  Pay attention on T-S Handouts 1, 2, 4
min information which feedback on their their possible
Follow-
was given and correct language and errors problems and solve
Up
students’ mistakes. which you heard them.
 Evaluation
Additional possibilities: At the end of the topic students can write their own household chores dialogue in pairs.
Homework/Further Work: Students should write their own short passage about activities they did each day last week. They should
include at least one activity per day, and incorporate at least three negative past simple sentences.
Adapted from: Harmer, J. (1988) How to teach English. – Pearson, Longman – 288 p