Lesson Plan

Teacher : Mitrofan Alina-Adriana

Date : 21st of January, 2019

Grade : 8th

Level : Intermediate

Textbook: High Flyer

Lesson : “Puzzling Puzzles”

Grammar : Past Perfect Continuous

Type of lesson : Reinforcement Lesson

Skills : Speaking , reading, writing, listening

Teaching methods and techniques :

main method : The Communicative Approach

elements of : - Direct method

- Oral method

techniques : - Conversation
- Explanation

Teaching material: - handout

- board
- textbook
- notebook
-laptop

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

 use their speaking abilities

 identify the speech situations related to past perfect continuous
 answer the questions on an information sheet
 use the verbs in brackets to the right form to fill in the blanks
Interaction : T-SS
SS-T
PW
Time : 50 minutes

Warm up Before he arrived home he had bought a present for his wife. T  Ss
3’ Why did he buy a present? T asks Ss to give possible
situations.
Homework Find authentic examples of Past Perfect Simple on the Ss  T
check internet.
5’ (in songs, newspapers, etc)
Revising Past Perfect Simple – form, meaning, contexts.
Grammar The T presents the first PPT (see below PPT 01) with Ss  T
Presentation sentences containing Past Perfect Continuous. T elicits
15’ concept questions to check the understanding of the tense
used.
The slides of the presentation no1 are given below.
The second PPT (see below PPT 02) is presented to Ss.
They are shown the form and the uses of Past Perfect
Continuous.
The T asks Ss to discuss the differences between Past Perfect
Simple and Past Perfect Continuous.
The T asks Ss to discuss the differences between Past Perfect
Continuous and Present Perfect Continuous.
The slides of the presentation no 2 are given below.
Grammar The T gives Ss a worksheet to practice Past Perfect Ss  T
Practice Continuous.
15’ The worksheet also has an exercise to help Ss understand the
differences between Past Perfect and the Past Perfect
Continuous. The worksheet is given below.
Grammar The T gives Ss the following sentences.
Production Felix the cat had been sleeping all morning. He’d been
10’ dreaming of a large piece of fish.
Then the T asks Ss to continue the story using Past Perfect
Continuous.
Homework Make up a story with another character you prefer, using T  Ss
2’ Past Perfect Continuous and other past tenses.