LESSON PLAN

Name: Tudor Noemi

Date: 11th of Oct.,2017
School: Școala Gimnazială Crizbav
Grade: 8th Grade
Lesson: Past Simple Tense
Information about the class: (age, grade, year of study)
There are 17 learners in the class. They are 14 years old. They have a 2-hour lesson
every week. We do not use a course book so I decided to bring my own material.
Main aim:
By the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to express things in the Past Simple
Subsidiary aim:
To practice speaking referring to actions in the past.
Personal aim:
To reduce TTT (teacher talking time) in whole class activities and provide more
learner interaction.
Materials (including source):
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar
-games
-videos (http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short-stories/the-
first-marathon )
- whiteboard
- handouts/worksheets
- video projector

Teaching techniques: individual work, conversation, brainstorming, pair work

Skills: reading, speaking, writing, listening
Materials:

Assumptions:
Learners will know most of the vocabulary and they will remember some things about
Past Tense.
Anticipated difficulties with tasks:
Learners will not be able to understand the whole video and to see it’s relation with
the Past Simple tense.
Solutions: I will give them a transcript and I will help them to translate it. After, I will
ask them to underline the verbs which are used in the Past Simple.
GRAMMAR SHEET
LANGUAGE ANALYSIS
REGULAR IRREGULAR USE Anticipated problems
+ S+VERB+ED To learn by heart a -for actions which Learners may not understand why they have to learn
e.g. He played football happened at a stated the list of irregular verbs.
list which consists
yesterday. time in the past. Solutions
- S+DID + NOT/DIDN’T 112 verbs. ( Source: e.g. He sold his car Give examples of huge mistakes in English with very
+ VERB two weeks ago. frequent verbs. Eventually, show them a video.
Round Up 4)
e.g. He didn’t play - to express a past
football yesterday. state or habit. http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-
? DID + S + VERB e.g. When she was videos/kittys-school-day
e.g. Did he play football young she lived in a
yesterday? small flat.
-for past actions
which happened
one after the other.
e.g. She put on her
coat, took her bag
and left the house.
Lesson plan procedure

Stage Stage aim Procedure Interaction Time

Lead in & To introduce the topic Asking students how T–S(s) 3 mins
Warm-up can they refer to their
childhood or actions
they did yesterday.
Teaching To present the rule and the use of the Past Simple Give out some handouts T-S(s) 10 mins
Pair work Time adverbs and expressions used with the Past Ask learners to work in S(s)-S(s) 3 mins
Simple. To allow learners to find these in the pairs. Monitor learners
dictionary. and help them with
some suggestions.
Give them a list with some adverbs. Compare with the list S(s)-T
that they had found. T-S(s)

Individual To show students how to use correctly the Past Ask students to make S 7
work Simple the exercises
Exercises individually after you
give them an example
for each exercise
Worksheet 1 ex.1,2,3
Nominating To let learners give their Check that learners’ S-T 2 min
individuals answers individually answers are correct and
to check help as necessary.
Transition To activate students and show them how simple is to Teacher say: T-S(s) 5 mins
activity make a list of verbs. -stand up S(s) - T
-clap your hands
 -jump
-turn around
-cry
-smile
-sit down
-sleep
Put on the blackboard
all this verbs. Ask
students to find the Past
Simple form of these
verbs.
Pair check To allow learners to Ask learners to check S-S 2 min
discuss their answers their answers in pairs.
Language To watch a video - „The First Marathon” Ask learners to watch T-S(s) 2 mins
Focus http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short- the video carefully
And stories/the-first-marathon. especially the
Listening suggestive images.
Individual To give out the transcript. To watch the movie again. Learners are given the S 4 mins
practice transcript. Ask them to
underline the verbs in
the Past Simple.
Check that learners have
completed the task
successfully.
Nominating To let learners give their Check that learners’ S-T 2 min
individuals answers individually answers are correct and
to check help as necessary.
(Grammar To ask a student to come to the laptop and play a He/she is asked to put S 3 mins
game) game which is projected on the wall. the verbs in two
Nominating http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar- columns
individuals games/past-simple-endings (regular/irregular verbs).
The others will find out
the infinitive form of the
verb and the translation
into Romanian.
Group To allow students to put the verbs from the previous Check that learners can S-S 2 min
work - exercise in some sentences. use this verbs in a
game context.
Direct To correct learners’ answers Ask learners to read T-S(s) 2 mins
correction their sentences and
teacher helps as
necessary.
Homework To learn some new words. Giving out some T-S(s) 2 mins
To understand the previous video and/or the transcript worksheets. Ask
with some exercises. learners to make these
exercises at home which
are related to the story
called “The first
marathon” (Telling them
that this year will be the
year in which the
Olympic Games will be
organized in Brazil).
Ending the To give feedback. T. appreciates Ss’ activity during Start positively and after T-S(s) 1 min
lesson that underline the things
the class.
that are needed to be
changed. S(s) must be
encouraged and
appreciated after each
class.