LESSON PLAN

Name: Zalana Romelia

School: Izvoarele School
Date:
Number of students: 11
Class: 8th
Lesson: Past Simple/ Past Continuous
Lesson type: Revision grammatical structures- past simple and introduction of new structure- past continuous

Objectives:

1. to practice the Past Simple

2. to practice the Past Continuous
3. To improve listening, speaking, reading and writing skills
4. To recognize specific English sounds
5. To check intonation and pronunciation

Materials: Whiteboard, Teacher’s book, Student’s book, CD, worksheets, sheets of paper

Organization:
 Whole class
 Individual work
 Pair/group work

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Phases Objectives Activities Organization Resources Skills Time
Presentation The Ss are given the worksheet with the song
and they are asked to fill in the verb forms. S
1 T tells the children that they are going to listen to Whole Class Worksheets L 15’
4 a song. The song will be repeated; the first time R
5 they have to listen carefully and even sing if they W
know the song. Pair work whiteboard
The second time the song is played they have to
listen to the song and solve the tasks on the
worksheet:
 Complete the missing words
Ss look at the tenses identified and the teacher
introduces the new structure: past continuous
Practice 1 Ss are given worksheet 2 and they are asked to
solve exercise 4and 5 with their desk mate. Pair work S
1 worksheets L 8’
2 Whiteboard
3 Answers are checked with the whole class
4
5 2.Charades
Ss are divided into 2 groups They are told the
rules of the game and one member from each Group work S
team is asked to come in front of the class for L
a demonstration R 15’
Sentences W

Production 1 Word cards

2 T prepares a stack of cards with random S
3 words. Each student will choose two. In L 10’
4 rounds have them create a sentence for their Group work worksheets R
5 pair of words—one word for the past tense W
2
 clause and one for the past continuous clause.
For example, they draw the two words, drive
and monkey. A possible sentence could be: I
was driving down the street when I saw a
monkey in the road.. To make this activity
even more involved the students create
sentences that somehow relate to the last
person’s sentence to create a silly sort of story
of things that were happening at a given time!
Production Homework
T asks the children to write a paragraph about Individual L 2’
their free-time activities. They are given certain Work worksheets W
phrases to use in their sentences. Homework