LESSON PLAN

School: Colegio N° 47

Supervising Teacher: Chaves Gustavo

Cooperating Teacher: Castillo Gloria

Trainee Teacher: Condori Pablo

Course: 4th Grade

Date: Wednesday 25th, August

Time: 80 minutes

Students: 18

TEACHING POINT: Past Simple tense - Introduce Irregular Verbs

LEARNING OBJECTIVE: At the end of the lesson students should be able to:

• know the correct form of an irregular verb in the past simple.

• differentiate between irregular and regular verbs

• Form affirmative sentences

VOCABULARY AND PRONUNCIATION:

Irregular verbs:

Go – went Do - did
Come – came Read - read
Have - had Swim - swam
Begin - began Speak - spoke
Eat - ate Tell - told

ANTICIPATED KNOWLEDGE:

• Past simple use

• Past simple structure (affirmative)

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS:

Students may have problems with the difference between a regular an irregular verb.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:

The teacher must explain this with patience and clarity, maybe more than once.

RESOURCES/ MATERIALS:

• Cards of irregular verbs

• Poster of Word search
• Photocopies
 Task file

PROCEDURE TIMING INTERACTTION PURPOSE OF THE

PROCEDURE
Greeting: Introduce yourself. 30’ T – STS To revise a previous
Explain them you are a trainee STS – T knowledge
teacher. Show them your respect .
and tell them you are glade to To introduce the new
have the opportunity of teaching. topic.

Warm Up: Review of the (-ed)

ending. On the blackboard, write T – STS
just 4 regular verbs, and elicit STS – T
them to change the verbs and give
the correct -ed ending. After that
tell them to read each verb aloud.

Step one: Introduce Irregular

verbs. Tell them there are a lot of
verbs do not take (-ed) form in the
past tense. Explain them these
verbs are called irregular verbs
because they don’t follow one
pattern. Write just four examples
(go-come-swim-read) on the
board to show them the
difference. Practice pronunciation
of each verb aloud.

Step two: Arrange students into 20’ STS – T To reinforce the new
small groups. Mix up the verb T- STS topic
cards with irregular verbs in
infinitive and irregular verbs in
the past simple and give them.
*The cards of the irregular verbs
in past will have a help because
this is the first time they are
working with this.
Students must find and match the
past form or infinitive form of
that verb with their classmates.
After, elicit students to write in
the blackboard their matches and
make them to pronounce the verb.
Once finished all the cards, teach
the meaning of each verb and
their correct pronunciation.
Step three: Activity. Give them 20’ STS – T To practice the new
copies with activities of T – STS topic
affirmative sentences in past
simple using irregular verbs.
Then tell them to read aloud their
sentences. Make everyone one
read at least one sentence.
 Wrap up: Put the poster of the 10’ T – STS To conclude the
Word search on the board and STS - T lesson
give them time to think and find
irregular verbs in past. Elicit them
to mark in the poster all the verbs
they could find.

• Next you will find examples of activities, cards, and bingo game.

Example of verbs cards: the help will be the translation in Spanish, just for the irregular verb in
past simple, the irregular verb in infinitive will not have a help.

Went
go (ir)

Activity:

• Complete the sentences with the past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
1. The last lesson ……………………………. at 2.30. (begin)
2. Joe ………………………………………………... early. (come)
3. Mary …………………………………. lunch at 1 o’clock. (have)
4. I think you ………………………………………. the wrong thing. (do)
5. Alex ………………………………………………. to England last year. (go)
6. Paul ……………………………………………… three books last summer. (read)
7. She …………………………………. very fast. (swim)
8. The president ……………………………. quickly. (speak)
9. She …………………………………………………. two plates of spaghetti. (eat)
10. I …………………………………………………. you not to do that. (tell)
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