LESSON PLAN

Class: English
Date: the 22nd of November
Grade: 6th
Name:
Unit 4
Lesson 2: The Past Tense of the Verb ”to have”
Type of lesson: transmission lesson / assimilation of new content
Time: 50 minutes
Purpose: The purpose of the lesson is to practice the past form of the verb “to have”.

Specific competences:
1.2. Identifying the general significance of current oral messages, clear and rarely
articulated
2.1. Making a brief exposure on a familiar subject
2.2. Participation in short verbal interactions with support from interlocutors
2.4. Manifestation of interest in verbal exchange
4.3. Participating in the exchange of written messages

Cognitive Objectives:
a) To revise the main structures learnt so far;
b) To revise the present form of the verb “to have”;
c) To express opinions;
d) To ask and answer past questions;

Affective objectives:
a) To create a warm atmosphere for learning;
b) To appreciate their work and efforts;
c) To make students enjoy using the English language;
d) To feel more positive when expressing their ideas in English.
Operational objectives: By the end of the lesson the pupils will be able:

O1 – to use past tense simple of the verb ”to have” in order to express past events;
The aim is considered achieved if each child uses the verb at least in five sentences.
O2 – to identify past tense simple of the verb ”to have” in different contexts;
The aim is considered achieved if each child identifies at least three verbs.
O3 - to ask and answer questions;
The aim is considered achieved if each child asks and answers at least one question.
O4 – to describe images using the present and the past tenses of the verb “to have”;
The aim is considered achieved if each child describes at least one image.

Teaching strategies
1. Techniques: conversation, explanation, exercise, didactic game.
2. Means of instruction: notebook, worksheets, Power Point presentation, video-
projector, board, chalk, ball, notes.
3. Types of interaction: frontal, individual, group.

Resources:
- Human resources: 24 students;
- Temporal resources: 50 minutes;
- Spatial resources: classroom;
Techniques of evaluation:
- Oral assessment;
- Written assessment;

Bibliography:
- “Programe scolare pentru disciplina LIMBA MODERNĂ 1, clasele a V-a – a
VIII-a, Conform cu Anexa nr. 2 la ordinul ministrului educaţiei naţionale nr.
3393/ 28.02.2017
- Raymond Murphy, 2006, “Essential Grammar in Use”, Second Edition,
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
- www.didactic.ro
- www.islcollective.com

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 Teaching strategies
Lesson stages Objectives Activities Types of Means of Evaluation Time
Techniques
interaction instruction
The teacher greets the children and ensures the optimal
conditions for the activities.
Good morning! – Good morning teacher!
Arrangements Conversation Frontal Oral 2’
How are you? – I’m fine, thank you. - And you?
Is anybody missing today?
etc.
Reviewing the The teacher checks homework, explains the mistakes.
Conversation
previous They revise the knowledge learnt so far. They answer Frontal Notebooks Oral 3’
Explanation
knowledge some question about the past tense of the verb “to be”.
The teacher reads the children a short simple text.The
teacher asks the children to tell which the predominant
Frontal
verbs are. Conversation Oral
Warm up Individual Text 5’
The predominant words are “have” and “had”. The Explanation Written
teacher asks them if they remember the verb “to have”
and to say its forms. (Appendix 1)
Than the teacher announces the subject of the lesson
that they will discuss about the past form of the verb
Formulation of Conversation
“to have”. Frontal Oral 3’
the subject Explanation
She presents the operational objectives adapted to the
children’s understanding level.
The teacher asks the children to remember which the
second predominant word from the text was. Then she
explains that ”had” is the only past form of the verb “to Frontal PPT
Explanation
Communication have”. Individual Presentation,
Conversation Oral 10’
of knowledge The teacher turns on the PPT Presentation about the video-
topic. She explains the information about the projector
affirmative, negative and interrogative forms of the
verb.

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 The class is divided into pairs. The teacher gives each Written
O1 pair a worksheet on which there are present simple Explanation Pairs Worksheets Oral 5’
tense sentences. The task is to change the sentences Exercise
from present tense into past tense of the verb to have.
In five minutes each pair solves the task and then one
member from each pair reads the correct answers. If
they have any difficulty they ask the teacher’s help.
(Appendix 2)

Fixation of
O1 The teacher shows the children some images. In the Explanation Individual PPT Oral 7’
knowledge
O4 images there are some persons who nowadays have Exercise Presentation,
some things and in the past they had others. She asks video-
them to describe them using “have”, “had”, “don’t projector
have” or “didn’t have”. (Appendix 3) Images

The teacher gives each child some notes on which Explanation Individual Notes, ball Oral 7’
O1 there are written different things as (car, bike, dog, Exercise
O3 mask, red dress etc.). She explains the children the Didactic
exercise. They have to ask each other past questions game
using those words and the past form of the verb “to
have”. They use a ball to choose the colleague who
will be asked the question. (Appendix 4)
The teacher shows the children a slide which contains Explanation Pairs PPT Oral
Feedback some short texts. The texts are written only in the past Conversation Frontal presentation,
O2 tense but there are used all the affirmative, negative Video- 5’
and interrogative forms of the verb “to have”. The projector
pairs receive a worksheet on which there is a table with
three columns. The teacher explains them that they

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 have to count the verbs and say how many forms of
affirmative there are in the text, how many of negative
and how many of interrogative. The teacher asks
different pairs to indicate the correct answers.
(Appendix 5)
Children take notes about their homework. The teacher
gives them a worksheet which contains two exercises.
In one exercise they have to circle the affirmative form
of the verb to have, to underline the negative forms and
Giving to double underline the interrogative forms. In the
Conversation
homework and second exercise they have to fill in the gaps with the Frontal Worksheets Oral 3’
assessment correct forms of the verb to have using the past tense.
(Appendix 6)

The teacher praises the most active children and

encourages the others.

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Appendix 1

Have and had

Mary has apples, she has bananas, she has pears, she has grapes, she also has
tomatoes and she has cucumbers, too. But Today Mary is at the greengrocer’s. She want
to have many others fruit and vegetables. She asks the seller:
- Do you have red peppers?
- Yes, I do.
- Do you have green peppers?
- Yes, I do.
- Do you have salad?
- Yes, I do.
- Do you have pineapples?
- No, I don’t.
And she buys one kilo from all of them. Now she has red and green peppers and
salad, too.
Last week Mary didn’t have apples, she didn’t have pear, she didn’t have grapes,
she didn’t have tomatoes. She had strawberries, she had bananas, she had cucumbers, she
had sweets.
- Did she have any meat?

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Appendix 2

Present simple of the verb “to have” /

Past simple of the verb “to have”

1. Change the sentences from present tense into past tense of the verb to have. –
affirmative
1. I have good books. 
2. She has two brothers. 
3. He has one sister. 
4. We have no time. 
5. They have a house in the city. 

2. Change the sentences from present tense into past tense of the verb to have. –
negative
1. I don’t have any friends. 
2. She doesn’t have many sweets. 
3. We don’t have a big family. 
4. Tom and John don’t have high marks. 
5. William doesn’t have a bike. 

3. Change the sentences from present tense into past tense of the verb to have. –
interrogative
1. Do you have any brothers or sisters? 
2. What good books do you have for studying English? 
3. Does your friend have good English pronunciation? 
4. What kind of home does your family have? 
5. Do your parents have good jobs? 

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 Appendix 3

PERSONS’ PRESENT PAST

NAMES

WILLIAM

ALICE

GABRIEL

SUSAN

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Appendix 4

NOTES

TEN
CAR BIKE DOG MASK RED DRESS
BOOKS

GREEN
PURPLE BLUE LOW
TEDDY NEWSPAPER COMPUTER
PEN SCHOOLBAG MARKS
BEAR

YELLOW TEN PINK

FVE CATS KITE WATCH
JACKET BALLOONS SKIRT

BLUE BLACK FOUR

PHONE RABBIT A HORSE
PENCILCASE T-SHIRT PARROTS

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Appendix 5
English texts

1. Do you remember? What did Vivian have on her desk? She had some books and
some pencils. She didn’t have pens and notebooks. Near her desk she had a guitar,
a ball. She didn’t have a violin and a motorcycle helmet. She didn’t have a TV in
her room, instead she had a laptop. She also had a radio. It was from her great-
grandmother. Did she have recordings for that radio?

2. My family had a farm in the south of England. I didn’t have a pet like a snake or a
lizard but we had lots of animals. What animals did we have on our farm? We had
cows and sheep and we also had many birds like ducks, chickens, geese, turkeys.
We had two very important animals on our farm. They were our sheepdogs. They
were very intelligent. At that moment, one lamb was my pet because she didn’t
have a mom!

 Count the affirmative, negative, interrogative forms of the verb “to have”, write the
number of the verbs and also the verbs into the correct columns.

Texts Affirmative form Negative from Interrogative form

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Appendix 6

Homework

1. Read the text below and circle the affirmative form of the verb to have,
underline the negative forms and double underline the interrogative forms.

I lived in London. It is the capital city of England. We had a flat in the city center. It was
nice but it wasn’t a place for a pet like a dog or a car. I didn’t have a pet for a long time. I
had dogs, cats, rabbits at the countryside, at my grandparent’s house but I didn’t have in
my own flat. Something changed!! Did I have any pets in my flat? Did I have a lizard?
Did I have snake? Did I have fish? Yes, I did. I had many fish. I had many Goldfish,
Guppy, Neon tetra, Green swordtail. I was so happy!

2. Fill in the gaps with the correct forms of the verb “to have” using the past
tense.

a)………. Jean ………… any milk?

No, he …………. . He ……………some tea.
b) ………..Mike ………….. any pears?
Yes, he ………… .
c) ……….. Jim ……………… any oranges?
No, he …………. . He …………….. some apples.
d)………… Kate ……………… a red dress?
No, she ………….. .She …………… a black dress.

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