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LESSON PLAN 01

Student Name Saif Ul Isllam

Roll Number: BX510677

Program: MA TEFL (Workshop)

Code: 5663

Lesson Plan Submitted to: Ms. Rashida Imran (Workshop Coordinator)

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED LINGUISTIC

ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD

LESSON PLAN
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Topic: The Past Tense

Class Level:

Grade VIII

Class Duration:

45 minutes

Class Strength:

30 Students

Language Skill:

Grammar (Tense)

Method:

Direct

Material provided:

Handouts, white board, marker, and eraser

Audio/Visual Aids:

Use of low cost material

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the lesson the students should be able to

 To understand and use the past tense

 To know the form of the regular and irregular past
 To use the past tense to tell about states that happened in the past, and
form questions using the past tense.
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Procedure:

Brain storming to activate students’ schematic knowledge

In this session the teacher enters the class and welcomes the students. He also asks about their
health and studies. Next, in order to gain their attention the teacher shares a joke or tells about
the importance of describing sequences in daily life. After gaining students’ attention the teacher
asks the following questions to activate students’ prior knowledge.

1. How many tenses are there in English?

2. How many forms of verb do we have in English?
3. What is Past tense?
4. What is regular and irregular form of verb?
5. What are the helping verbs we use in Past tense?

Presentation:

After activating students existing knowledge the teacher writes the topic on the board ‘Past
Tense’ and explains it with simple examples using adverbs of time indicating past time such as
yesterday, last night, ago, and before etc. for example

The simple past (also called past simple, past indefinite or preterit) is a verb tense which is used
to show that a completed action took place at a specific time in the past.

The simple past is formed using the verb + ed. In addition, there are many verbs with irregular
past forms. Questions are made with did and negative forms are made with did not.

Statement: You called Debbie last night.

Question: Did you call Debbie last night?

Negative: You did not call Debbie last night.

Practice:

Here, the students well be asked to change the verbs in brackets to the simple past. The verb
may be either in regular or irregular form. For example,

1) They all (go) ___ shopping.

2) I never (imagine) ____ I would see you here.

3) We (book) ___ two tickets for the show.

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4) He (collect) ___ his children from school.

5) Were you (frighten) ___ of the dark when you were young?

6) Who (eat) ___ my chocolate?

7) I (feel) so tired that I went straight to bed.

8) We (grow) ___ this tree from a seed.

9) She (lose) ___ her way home.

10) He thought I (steal) his umbrella.

Production:

The students will demonstrate the use of past tense in their writing. They will be asked to write a
short event happened in the past.

Recap:

If the teacher feels that the students are still facing difficulties in understanding the tense, he will
recap some of the main points again and then assign them home work as to write down a story of
200 words on past incident of their life. At the end the teacher wind up his class by saying
Assalam –o- Alaikum or Good bye to his students.