CAMBRIDGE CELTA LESSON PLAN

Teacher Name Date Level TP no

10 December 2015 Elementary
Sarah Abdel Rahman

At the end of the lesson, students should be able to form and use past simple tense, be
Main Aims
familiar with the formation and word order in negative sentences and questions.

To introduce the past simple with its function to talk about the past (comparing it to the
present simple and present progressive)
Secondary Aims
To introduce the affirmative and negative form of the past simple and the forms of regular
and irregular verbs To review adverbials of time concerning weekdays (on Monday, on
Saturday, on the weekend), here used with the past tense.
To practice the pronunciation of the “-ed” ending in the past simple and the stress of the
personal pronoun when using the same question to talk about another person
To provide Ss with controlled and semi-controlled practice in speaking and freer practice in
writing in the context of reporting about past events using the past simple
Make sure Ss are on task.
Personal Aims

Materials Class Profile Assumptions/previous learning

Handouts - Foundation Level, CAT Covered earlier this term from Cutting
- Ages 19 & above Edge student book – Elementary Level

Anticipated Problems with the lesson as a whole

Management Learners Skills

Ss might have difficulties to Group of students who can be noisy at

differentiate between regular and times when sitting together
irregular verb forms.
· Ss might confuse present simple
verb forms and past simple forms to
talk about the past..
· Ss might use the verb be in front
of a past simple verb form when
forming sentences (like in “I am
watched a movie.”).

Suggested Solutions to those problems

Management Learners Skills

Sufficient explanation, practice and a
list for reference will be provided
The difference will be highlighted and
practiced in drills Make sure weaker Ss are seated next to
The correct pattern for sentences will stronger Ss so that they can help each
be shown clearly on the board. other.

LANGUAGE ANALYSIS FORM

What is the target language called? (Also provide the actual examples to be used in the lesson.)

I baked a cake last night.

The simple past is used to talk about a completed action in a time before now. Duration is not important. The time of the action can
be in the recent past or the distant past.
 You always use the simple past when you say when something happened, so it is associated with certain past time expressions

What is the meaning of the target language? (State what it means/when we use it.)
• to talk about the past:
• frequency: often, sometimes, always
I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
I often brought my lunch to school.
• a definite point in time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six weeks ago
We saw a good film last week.
Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.
She finished her work atseven o'clock
I went to the theatre last night
• an indefinite point in time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago People lived in caves a long time ago.
• She played the piano when she was a child.

Note: the word ago is a useful way of expressing the distance into the past. It is placed after the period of time: a week ago, three
years ago, a minute ago.

He worked at McDonald’s.
My father worked as a doctor
The kids played outside.

Use

We use the past tense to talk about:

• something that happened once in the past:

I met my wife in 1983.

We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.

• something that happened again and again in the past:

When I was a boy I walked a mile to school every day.

We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.

• something that was true for some time in the past:

I lived abroad for ten years.

He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.

• we often use phrases with ago with the past tense:

I met my wife a long time ago.

Questions and negatives

We use did to make questions with the past tense:

When did you meet your wife?

Where did you go for your holidays?
Did she play tennis when she was younger?
Did you live abroad?
 But look at these questions:

Who discovered penicillin?

Who wrote Don Quixote?

For more on these questions see question forms

We use didn’t (did not) to make negatives with the past tense:

They didn’t go to Spain this year.

We didn’t get home until very late last night.
I didn’t see you yesterday.

How will meaning be checked? Provide examples (e.g. CCQs, pictures, guided discovery task etc)

Is it happening now? No,

Is it something that is that happened before? Yes
Are we changing the form of the verb to past tense? Yes

Show the key features of pronunciation. (e.g. phonemes, word/sentence stress, contractions etc)

I baked a cake last night.

áj békt ə kék lǽst nájt

Show the features of form. (e.g. grammatical structure, part of speech, spelling rules etc)

FORMING THE SIMPLE PAST TENSE

PATTERNS OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE FOR REGULAR VERBS

Affirmative

Subject + verb + ed

I arrived.

Negative

Subject + did not + infinitive without to

They didn't go.

Interrogative

Did + subject + infinitive without to

Did she arrive?

 Interrogative negative

Did not + subject + infinitive without to

Didn't you play?

NOTES ON AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE, & INTERROGATIVE FORMS

AFFIRMATIVE
The affirmative of the simple past tense is simple.

▪ I was in Japan last year

▪ She had a headache yesterday.
▪ We did our homework last night.

NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE

For the negative and interrogative simple past form of "do" as an ordinary verb, use the
auxiliary "do", e.g. We didn't do our homework last night.
The negative of "have" in the simple past is usually formed using the auxiliary "do", but
sometimes by simply adding not or the contraction "n't".

The interrogative form of "have" in the simple past normally uses the auxiliary "do".

EXAMPLES

▪ They weren't in Rio last summer.

▪ We didn't have any money.
▪ We didn't have time to visit the Eiffel Tower.
▪ We didn't do our exercises this morning.
▪ Were they in Iceland last January?
▪ Did you have a bicycle when you were young?
▪ Did you do much climbing in Switzerland?

Note: For the negative and interrogative form of all verbs in the simple past, always use the
auxiliary 'did''.

SIMPLE PAST, IRREGULAR VERBS

Some verbs are irregular in the simple past. Here are the most common ones.

TO GO

▪ He went to a club last night.

▪ Did he go to the cinema last night?

Anticipated Problems with the target language - (use the analysis above to help with this)

Meaning Pronunciation Form

Regular and irregular

Suggested Solutions for those problems - (these need to be solutions to the above problems)

Meaning Pronunciation Form

Practice by exercises
Illustrate through examples Drilling 3 times, corally, by Print them a copy of irregular
group and individually. past tense

PROCEDURE PAGE - fill in as many stages as you require for your lesson and delete the
remaining stages before submitting the lesson plan

STAGE NAME STAGE AIM TIME INTERACTION

Set the scene Lead Ss by asking them what did they do last 7 T – Ss
weekend

PROCEDURE:
- Elicit from them & write on the board
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Went to chalet
Visited my grand parents
Cut my hair
Ate an ice-cream

Now we will learn how to say things that happened in the past. The simple past is used to talk about a completed
action in a time before now.
Draw the time line, marking past, present and future

Past Present Future

STAGE NAME STAGE AIM TIME INTERACTION

Language analysis Eliciting meaning & pronunciation & Form 10 T-Ss

PROCEDURE: PATTERNS OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE FOR REGULAR VERBS

Affirmative

Subject + verb + ed

I arrived.

Negative

Subject + did not + infinitive without to

 They didn't go.

Interrogative

Did + subject + infinitive without to

Did she arrive?

Interrogative negative

Did not + subject + infinitive without to

Didn't you play?

STAGE NAME STAGE AIM TIME INTERACTION

8 SS-SS
Practice 1 Practice Controlled exercise
Re write the sentences in the past tense form

PROCEDURE:

Exercise sheet 1- students should make the past tense form for 8 sentences.

SS work individually then check in pairs “simple past tense”.

Feedback: teacher’s feedback comes as confirmation

STAGE NAME STAGE AIM TIME INTERACTION

8 Ss-Ss
Practice 2 To ensure SS can identify the regular and
irregular verbs in the simple past tense

PROCEDURE:
Choose the correct verb.

SS work individually then check in pairs.

Feedback: teacher’s feedback comes as confirmation

STAGE NAME STAGE AIM TIME INTERACTION

Semi/free controlled writing 8 Ss-Ss
Practice 3

PROCEDURE:
Write 6-8 sentences what did you do last summer.

STAGE NAME STAGE AIM TIME INTERACTION

Free speaking 8 Ss-Ss
Practice 4

PROCEDURE:

Ask your partner 10 yes / no questions about their last weekend.

For example: did you go to the cinema last weekend?
Did you cur your hair last weekend?
Did you study English last night?
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Teacher listens to their conversations..