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Sample Lesson Plan Format

Learning Objective: Students will be able to talk about…..

Level: Basic or Intermediate

Ages: Teens or Adults

Stage Teacher´s Procedure – Teacher Procedure - Students

T/S
Objective (How you would teach) (What would students be doing)
Ratio
Warm
up/Review

10/90

15 minutes

Introduction 80/20
5 minutes
Step 3
Presentation
There are three functions or situations where this tense can
25 minutes be used:

Eliciting from the students:

Describe something that took place within a finished period

40/60
of time

I watched a movie last night.

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 To provide Brainstorm around the topic
Practice activities for
45 minutes structured, Teacher writes in the middle of the blackboard “HOLIDAY”,
semi- and asks students to provide words that associate them
structured
with this concept. Teacher accepts their answers, and ask
and
unstructured the students to come to the board and write their word.
practice, Expected answers: summer, travel, vacation, beach, hotel,
building photos, etc.
fluency and
communicativ Teacher brings three texts about people who went on
e skills. holiday. Students read separately.
Before After a few minutes Teacher provides the students with the
students read list of question they need to answer in pairs.
the text
Teacher sets
the scene Teacher elicits answers from the students and writes their
and prepares answers on the board. Teacher also points to the verbs in
80/20
them for it. Past Tense.

Students will 1. Did Heidi stay at a hotel?

be reading 2. How long was Heidi in Russia?
three texts 3. Did Heidi visit any other city?
that are 4. How often did Charlie go to the beach?
based on the
5. What did Charlie do in Granada?
grammatical
point 6. How did John and Diane travel around the country?
previously 7. Did they stay with their friends?
presented. 8. How many photos did they take?

The texts are Expected answers are:

short
accounts that 1. No, she didn’t. Heidi stayed with her friends.
are based on 2. Heidi was in Russia for a week.
a real life 3. No, she didn’t visit any other city but Moscow.
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situation or 4. Charlie went to the beach every afternoon.
context. 5. Charlie visited the Alhambra in Granada.
These are 6. John and Diane rented a car, and travelled around
accounts the country by car.
about past
7. No, they didn’t. They stayed in a small hotel.
holiday
experience, 8. They took about 500 photos.
which is an
objective of Now teacher asks the students to ask their pair about their
the lesson. holiday. Teacher allows them a couple of minutes.
Students need to take notes because after the interview,
Teacher Teacher is going to ask at least one student from each pair
gives to tell the rest of the class what he/she found out about
feedback her/his partner.
after reading. The rest of the class listens and think of their own
questions to ask a student about their holiday.
Teacher
gives Step 3
feedback
after this Teacher tells the students that they are going to write a
activity. brief story about Peter’s holiday. Teacher writes a sentence
on top of the page. A student is supposed to continue the
This is a story by writing a sentence below. The student reads a
production sentence, writes a new one. Then the student folds the
activity where paper so that only his/her sentence can be seen, and
students
passes the paper to the student next him/her. Other
build fluency.
students follow suit.
Once The first sentence: Peter just came back from the holiday.
Teacher is He went to….
certain that
students After all the space on the page is occupied the story is read
have out loud.
understood If the students are interested teacher asks them to start
the text and from the beginning on another page, or continue the story.
have
developed
reading skills,
a post-
reading
phase can
start.

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 Students
need to pair
up and work
on building
fluency.

Teacher
gives
feedback on
their
performance.
Evaluation . Students will participate in the role-play or
Teacher chooses two students to step in front of the class watch their classmates perform.
and have a conversation about their last holiday. The
students were not pairs in any previous exercise. Pair work or small group activity.
15 minutes They are allowed to make up one if they do not wish to talk 20/80
about their own holiday.

Teacher takes notes on their performance. It is a non-

graded evaluation.
Students will take notes on the homework
Homework Teacher assigns a homework activity: activity assigned and bring the assignment
on the date requested.
10 minutes Students will need to write 10 sentences using today’s
Individual work 10/90
grammar point and bring it to next class.

Have a great day! See you tomorrow!

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