Mid-Course Lesson Planning Template

Type of Class: High school students Grade 10 Level:

Topic: Past Activities Beginner

Target grammar item: the Simple Past Tense

Lesson objective
By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to write their own past activities

Stage Time Activity

Warmer
Presentation
 How will you engage learners or
arouse their interest in what is to
follow?
 How will you introduce the target
grammar item? How will you situate
it / contextualize it?
 What examples will you give? How
can you make sure that the examples
are effective, memorable, and
meaningful?
 How will you check learners’
understanding?
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20 Disappearing words games
This game is to prepare the students to understand
some difficult words that they will encounter on the
recount text that I am going to use in the next
activity.
 Choose the difficult words from the text (no
more than 10)
 Write those words on the board, do not forget to
number them
 State the rules to the students loudly and clearly.
The rules are: (1) Teacher reads the words to the
entire class 3 times while the students listen.
Make sure the students ONLY listen. (2) Both
teacher and students read the words together 3
times. (3) Only the students read the words.
 Teacher reads the words 3 times.
 Teacher and students read the words together 3
times.
 The students read the words. Now the twist is in
this stage of the game. The teacher erases one
word each time the students read. Continue
doing so until all words are erased and the
students can name all the words just by looking
at the number.
 Compliment them on their magical ability of
being able to read a blank board.
 Next stage is ask them to write the words back
on the board to make sure that they remember

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 the spelling.
 Finally ask the students the meaning of the
words and write them on the board.
Presentation 20  Give the students the recount text containing
words from the previous game. (Handout 1)
 Give the students some time to read it
 Ask their understanding of the text orally with
some questions like “where did they go?” “What
did they do on the first day?” etc
 Write some sentences from the text on the
board.
 Highlight the verbs and ask the students what
the sentences have in common.
 Explain when the Simple Past tense is used and
the formula.
 Explain the difference between regular and
irregular verbs with examples
Controlled Practice 30 Writing Simple Past Tense sentences

 Ask the students to work in group of 3

Freer /Communicative Practice
 Write personal pronouns and verbs that the
students need to use in their sentences on the
board (I/go, Janet/dance, etc.). No more than 10
of them.
 Give one or two sentences as examples
 Ask the group to make up sentences based on
the pronouns and verbs given on the board.
 Collect their work and ask other group to check
their friends’ sentences
 Ask the students to write sentences that they
find incorrect on the board
 Together the students and the teacher correct
the sentences
30 Writing past activities

 Ask the students to work individually

 Ask them to write a paragraph of their last
vacation.
 Paragraph must consist of at least 10 sentences

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Handout 1

Last summer I went to Bali with my sister. On the first day, we went to Tanjung Benoa. There
were a lot of people there. We scuba dived and parasailed there. It was very thrilling and scary at the
same time. I enjoyed the activities a lot though and I am sure my sister did too. On the second day we
went to Jimbaran. We ate on one of the restaurants along the beach. It has wonderful view of the
ocean. Also the dishes were absolutely delicious. At last we spent the whole day on Pandawa Beach.
It was a short but very interesting and relaxing holiday.

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Rubric for Grammar Lesson Plan

Does not meet criteria Approaches criteria Meets criteria

Presentation Target grammar item is Target grammar Target grammar

component only explained and no item is presented in item is presented in
examples are given OR context and context, illustrative
examples are not explained, but the examples /situation
contextualized. explanation are effective,
/example ratio is not explanations are
quite balanced. brief, concise and
effective.

Guided practice Required practice Not all required All required practice
component components are practice components components are
minimally included and are included. included and are
/or are minimally suitable Restricted practice suitable for the
for the context and activities are context and lesson
lesson objective. included. objectives.

Semi-guided or Only mechanical practice Students are Students have at

free practice is included. informally invited to least one well-
use the target item planned opportunity
to talk about to use the target
themselves. item to talk about
themselves and /or
express their own
ideas.

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