Lesson plan

School:
Teacher:
School year:
Grade: 9th
Number of learners:
Textbook used: Upstream Intermediate
Unit 2: WHILE THERE’S LIFE, THERE’S HOPE
Type of lesson: Grammar
Time: 50 minutes

AIMS: -to bring confidence to students

-to recycle past tenses
-to motivate students to speak up more often
-to activate background knowledge

Lesson objectives: by the end of the lesson the students will be able to:

1. to practise past tenses

2. to use time linkers
3. to develop writing skills
4. to develop speaking skills

Skills: speaking, reading, writing.

Teaching techniques: conversation, communication, explanation, brainstorming.
Teaching aids: textbook, blackboard.
Class organization: individual, group-work.
Interactions: teacher-students, teacher-groups, student-student.
Assumption: the Ss are supposed to be already familiar with some of the new words from the
lesson.
Stages of the Timing Interactio Objectives Activities
lesson n
Teacher Student
1. Warm-up 2 mins T-Ss - to prepare -calls the roll - answer
the class for -checks teacher’s
the new class homework questions

2. 10 mins T-Ss - to activate -points out the

Presentation background title of the lesson: - Put down the
knowledge The best day of title
my life
- Put down the
information
-explains and puts
down the use of
past tenses ( the
ones that can be
found in the text
they are going to
work on)

3.Practice 20 T-Ss -to practise - asks students to -do the task,

mins Ss-Ss past tenses read the text ( ex check it in
41, point b) and to groups, then
select all the verbs with the
that express a past
whole class.
action.

- asks students to - solve the

-to use time fill in the linkers exercise and
linkers
(exercise 41), check its
paying attention correctness
to the sequence of with the
events in the text. teacher.

- to practise - asks students to

past tenses - accomplish
read the story
the task and
again and put the check it with
events in the the class and
correct order the teacher
( exercise 41/c,
page 33)

4. Production 10 mins Ss-Ss -to develop - asks students to - describe the

writing skills write five best day of
sentences about their life in
the best day of five
their life, using sentences
the newly revised
past tenses
5.Consolidatio 7 mins T-Ss -to develop - asks some -the sentences
n/ Ss-Ss speaking students to utter are presented to
feedback skills the sentences the class
about the best day
of their life
6.Homework 1 min T-Ss -announces
homework:
Select the
adjectives from
the text ’’The
best day of my
life” and find a
synonym for
each one.