Lesson plan

Lyceum: Pro Succes

The 7
th
form
Student: Militaru Cristina
Date: 12.02.2014
Lesson 18
Theme The Past Perfect Progressive
Competences:
Linguistic
Pragmatic
The pupil will develop the following subcompetences:
- Develop and practice the productive skills (writing, speaking) and the receptive skills (listening, reading);
- Guess a riddle;
- Put the verbs into the correct tense: Present Perfect Progressive or Past Perfect Progressive;
- Give the plural of the nouns;
- Write sentences on the topic Furniture and Fittings using the given words.
Visual aids: textbook, copybook, poster with the rule, worksheet.
Techniques: conversation, explanation, brainstorming, dialogue, exercise.
Forms of activity: whole class work, individual work.

Nr. Stages of the
lesson
Timing Techniques &
forms of
activity
Teachers activity Pupils activity
1 Introduction 1 Conversation T greets class and checks
attendance
Ps greet the T .
The P on duty answers.
2 Checking up
homework
12 Work in groups The T asks Ps to present to the class
their rooms description.
Ps present what they have prepared.
3 Warm up 3 Whole class
work
brainstorming
The T asks Ps to guess what it is:
- Four legs, but not a beast,
Full of feathers, but not a
bird.
- They stare at one another all
time, but never meet. What
are they?
Ps give their answers.
4













5
Presentation of
new material









Vocabulary


Oral-speak
5










2


7
Whole class
work


Conversation

Poster




Exercise


Conversation
To resume the topic about their
rooms, T asks Ps to choose a saying
and to explain how they
understand it:
a) As you make your bed, so you
must lie on it.
b) Between two stools one
goes/falls to the ground.
c) Sweep before your own door.

The T asks Ps to write the
sentences from the ex. 3 on page
73 replacing the underlined words
by their antonyms.
The T asks Ps to write sentences on
Ps share their ideas on the sayings.









Ps put down the ex. in their
copybooks.


Ps read their sentences with the
practice
Whole class
work


the topic Furniture and Fittings
using the following words: to
select, to equip, to replace, hard,
metal, plastic, leather, square,
material, oval.
6 Grammar 5 Whole class
work

Poster

The T presents the new tense: Past
Perfect Progressive. It shows an
event that happened before
another event in the past. Now he
explain with some examples.
Ps write the rules.
7 Feed-back 4 Whole class
work

The T asks Ps to come one by one
at the blackboard and to make the
exercise nr. 1 on page 73.
In the exercise nr. 1, Ps open the
brackets using Present Perfect
Progressive or Past Perfect
Progressive tense.
8 Evaluation 5 Worksheet

Individual work
The T shares by a worksheet to
every P and gives them 5 min. to
complete it.
Ps complete the worksheets.
9 Homework 1 The T asks pupils to note their
homework. Ex. 1,2, on page 73 and
ex. 9 on page 72.
Ps note their homework.





a) As you make your bed, so
you must lie on it.

b) Between two stools one
goes/falls to the ground.

c) Sweep before your own door.

Complete the sentences in the Past Perfect Progressive.

1. Laura needed a break because she (study) all morning.
2. When Lorraine moved to England, she (learn) English for 12 years.
3. I did not go out last night because I (work) all day.
4. Orla felt fit for the marathon because she (exercise) a lot.
5. When I went to see Ms Winter, her secretary told me that she (speak) on the phone for two hours.
6. You got sick because you (eat) all the time.
7. When the musician became director of the opera house, he (live)____ in this town for ten years.
8. We (go) out together for two years before I met his family.
9. The passengers (wait) for four hours before the ground staff could finally give them information on the
delay of their flight.
10. When I noticed my mistake, I (drive) for an hour in the wrong direction.








Answers:
Complete the sentences in the Past Perfect Progressive.
1. Laura needed a break because she had been studying all morning.
2. When Lorraine moved to England, she had been learning English for 12 years.
3. I did not go out last night because I had been working all day.
4. Orla felt fit for the marathon because she had been exercising a lot.
5. When I went to see Ms Winter, her secretary told me that she had been speaking on the phone for two hours.
6. You got sick because you had been eating all the time.
7. When the musician became director of the opera house, he had been living in this town for ten years.
8. We had been going out together for two years before I met his family.
9. The passengers had been waiting for four hours before the ground staff could finally give them information on the delay of their flight.
10. When I noticed my mistake, I had been driving for an hour in the wrong direction.