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

Timi
ng

Techniques
& forms of
activity
Conversatio
n
Work in
groups

Introduction

Checking up
homework

12

Warm up

Whole class
work
brainstormi
ng

Presentation
of new
material

Whole class
work

Conversatio
n
Poster

Teachers activity

T greets class and checks

attendance
The T asks Ps to present to
the class their rooms
description.
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?
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

Pupils activity

Ps greet the T .
The P on duty answers.
Ps present what they have
prepared.
Ps give their answers.

Ps share their ideas on the

sayings.

door.
2
Vocabulary
5

Exercise
7

Oral-speak
practice

Conversatio
n
Whole class
work

Grammar

Whole class
work
Poster

Feed-back

Whole class
work

Evaluation

Worksheet

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 the topic
Furniture and Fittings
using the following words: to
select, to equip, to replace,
hard, metal, plastic, leather,
square, material, oval.
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.
The T asks Ps to come one
by one at the blackboard
and to make the exercise nr.
1 on page 73.
The T shares by a worksheet
to every P and gives them 5

Ps put down the ex. in their

copybooks.

Ps read their sentences with

the

Ps write the rules.

In the exercise nr. 1, Ps open

the brackets using Present
Perfect Progressive or Past
Perfect Progressive tense.
Ps complete the worksheets.

Individual
work
9

Homework

min. to complete it.

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)
6. You got sick because you (eat)

all the time.

7. When the musician became director of the opera house, he (live)____

8. We (go)
9. The passengers (wait)

on the phone for two hours.

in this town for ten years.

out together for two years before I met his family.

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)

Answers:

Complete the sentences in the Past Perfect Progressive.

for an hour in the wrong direction.

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.