LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NICULESTI

GRADE 6th
LEVEL elementary
TEACHER SOCELEANU AMALIA-IONELA
LESSON Simple Past
TYPE OF LESSON acquiring new knowledge
DATE THE 23rd OF NOVEMBER 2017
TIME 50 minutes

COMPETENCES
2.3. Comunicarea interactiv ntr-un schimb simplu de informatii

3. Receptarea mesajelor scrise

AIMS
At the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. learn the Past Tense Simple formation and rules;
2. identify past structures in different statements;
3. use past simple structures;
4. talk about past events;

SKILLS
speaking
reading
TECHNIQUES
observation
explanation
pair work
RESOURCES
- CD- player
blackboard
notebooks

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS
Students might
- not understand all the words, so T will explain them both in English and Romanian.

ACTIVITIES

WARM UP
AIM *creating a pleasant atmosphere for the English class;
*helping students feel relaxed.
INTERACTION *T Ss
*Ss - T
PROCEDURE *T asks Ss How are you today? / Is anybody absent? / Are you
ready to start the English class?;
*Ss answer Ts questions;
ESTIMATED TIME *1 minute

1
 TRANSITION TO
THE NEW TOPIC
AIDS SS homework
AIM *checking if there were any problems with their homework.
INTERACTION *Ss Ss
*Ss T
PROCEDURE *T asks Ss what their homework was;
*Ss read their homework and correct it as a whole class. They had to
do some presentations of their village.
ESTIMATED TIME *5 minutes

PRESENTATION: A.

1. LEAD IN ( pre-reading/pre-
speaking/pre-writing/pre-listening)
AIDS *blackboard
AIM *making Ss interested in the new lesson
COMPETENCES
INTERACTION *T Ss
PROCEDURE *She writes a sentence on the blackboard and asks
Ss to underline the verb. T asks Ss what is strange
about the verb. Ss will say that it has a strange form.
*T announces that todays lesson is about Past
Tense Simple regular verbs;
*T writes the title of the lesson on the blackboard;

ESTIMATED TIME *3minutes

2. B.
AIDS *blackboard
AIM *learning the Past Simple formation and rules
COMPETENCES
INTERACTION T-Ss
PROCEDURE *T writes on the blackboard:
Past Tense Simple is used to talk about an action
which started and finished in the past.
It is formed:
AFFIRMATIVE: S+ VERB+ -ED
e.g.: I worked
NEGATIVE: S+ DID+ NOT+ VERB
e.g.: I DID NOT WORK (she explains them that in
the negative form the verb does not take the ed
termination)
INTERROGATIVE: DID+ S+VERB
e.g.: Did I work?
She explains and writes on the blackboard the main
uses of Past Tense Simple:
The Past Tense Simple is used:
1. to talk about a past action- we know the
precise time: last week, last month, in 1990
etc.
e.g.: I visited her last week.

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 2. To talk about an action that was common in
the past, but now it is not
e.g.: I cooked every evening- I do not do this
anymore
SPELLING RULES:
- The final consonant of the verb is
doubled when the preceding vowel
is short and stressed: stop- stopped,
travel- travelled;
- The final-y disappears when it is
preceded by a consonant, and the
verb takes ied termination;
e.g.: study- studied
- The verbs finished in e only take
d termination
e.g.: move-moved
ESTIMATED TIME *15 minutes

Practice 1
DEVELOPMENT/

AIDS *textbooks and blackboard

AIM *practice
COMPETENCES
INTERACTION *Ss - Ss
*Ss T
PROCEDURE *T writes on the blackboard the following verbs: cry, die, pull,
follow, point, look, stop, lift, recover, thank, smile, start, recognise.
She asks them to write these verbs in the past simple forms.
ESTIMATED TIME *5 minutes
Practice 2

AIDS *textbook, CD-player

AIM * using Past Simple structures
COMPETENCES
INTERACTION *T-Ss
Ss-Ss
*Ss T
PROCEDURE *T asks Ss to look at page 42. She asks them what they can see in
the image. She asks them to work in pairs, listen to the recording
and fill in the gaps with the words they hear in the recording. She
gives them a clue: the missing words are those on the blackboard.
ESTIMATED TIME *10 minutes

AIDS *blackboard, notebooks

AIMS *learning the Past Simple form of the verb to be

COMPETENCES
INTERACTION *T-Ss
PROCEDURE *T writes on the blackboard the Past Tense Simple of the verb TO
BE, and Ss write on their notebooks:
AFFIRMATIVE
I WAS

3
 YOU WERE
HE/SHE/IT WAS
WE WERE
YOU WERE
THEY WERE

NEGATIVE
I WAS NOT(WASNT)
YOU WERE NOT(WERENT)
HE/SHE/IT WAS NOT(WASNT)
WE WERE NOT (WERENT)
YOU WERE NOT
THEY WERE NOT

INTERROGATIVE
WAS I?
WERE YOU?
WAS HE/SHE/IT?
WERE WE?
WERE YOU?
WERE THEY?

ESTIMATED TIME *6 minutes

ESTIMATED TIME

PRODUCTION/
FEED-BACK (post-
reading/post-
speaking/post-
writing/post-
listening)
AIDS *BLACKBOARD
AIM * talking about past events
COMPETENCES
INTERACTION *T Ss
Ss- T
PROCEDURE *T asks Ss to make up 3 sentences in the Past Tense Simple, based
on their own actions in the past, using the verb TO BE. As Ss tell,
she writes the sentences on the blackboard, and asks Ss to underline
the forms of TO BE.
ESTIMATED TIME *3minutes

Emotional Feedback/
Aims checklist
AIMS *getting feed-back from the Ss
INTERACTION *Ss - T
PROCEDURE *T asks Ss to say a colour which best describes their emotional state
at the end of the English class.
ESTIMATED TIME *1 minute

4
Assigning Homework
AIM *using Past Simple structures
INTERACTION *T - Ss
PROCEDURE *T writes the homework on the blackboard Make up 5
sentences using past tense forms and newly acquired
vocabulary in the story The Fox and The Crow
ESTIMATED TIME *1 minute