Teacher: Abderrazzak HASSAR Class level: First Year Baccalaureate

Textbook: Ticket To English Class size:

Unit 1: Education Lesson type : Grammar
Title: Simple past School : EL Ijtihad

Class period : 1 hour Date :

 General Objective(s): Students will be able to use the simple past tense.
 Students Performance Objectives (SPO): By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
 Recognize the use and form of the simple past tense;
 Use the target structure by providing dialogues/interviews in the exploitation stage.
 Material(s): Textbook, cue cards and BB.

Time Procedures Techniques

5 Warm-up
minutes -T greets SS Greeting
-T: Welcome to my class.
-T asks one of the SS to write the date on the BB.
25 Presentation:
minutes - T sets the scene and creates a need for SS.
- T: Today is………… Yesterday was…………… Setting the scene
-T tries to elicit information about the tenses used from SS.
-T: Which verb do we have in both sentences? And tense?
-SS provide their answers.
-T writes the title of the lesson on the BB.
-T asks SS to open their textbooks and read the text provided on page 15.
- T asks SS to underline verbs written in the past if there are any. Contextualization
- T asks SS to extract regular verbs and irregular ones and classify them in a table.
-T asks SS to do the activity (a) on the same page.
-T elicits answers from SS and writes them on the BB.
-T draws a chart on the BB.
Regular verbs Irregular verbs
walk get
start have Chart
finish take
cook be
do Eliciting
sleep
-T fills in the chart and presents all forms of the simple past.
Form:
Regular form: Subject + infinitive + -ed
Irregular form: Subject + irregular form of the verb in the simple past.
NB: For the negative form, we use the auxiliary did + not.
For the interrogative form, we use the auxiliary did. (Yes/no questions).
Use
-T presents the use of simple past and writes it on the BB.
 We use the simple past to express past actions/events. It usually comes
with past time expressions like yesterday, some time ago, last year, when I
was a boy, etc…
Checking comprehension
- I cook couscous yesterday.
-T: What do you think? Negative
-SS: Wrong. checking
-T: Good. So what should we say?
-SS: I cooked couscous yesterday.
- I will play basketball last week.
-T checks Ss’ comprehension.
8 Practice:
minutes -T asks SS to complete the following sentences.
 1. I …………….. (see) my ex-teacher in the supermarket a week ago.
2. I……………(play) football yesterday.
3. One year ago, I…………..(have) a nice bike.
4. Last year, my dad………………(not/buy) me a gift he promised.
5. ……………..(watch) Barca VS Real last Sunday? Restoration drills
6. I was very hungry, so I (eat)…………..up all my food.
7. I (not/ answer)…………………. all the questions because some (be)
………..very difficult.
8. (You/be)…………………….at home when I (phone)………………….you last
night?
-T asks SS to do the exercise 2 on page 15.
-T corrects with SS.
22 Exploitation:
minutes - T provides SS with cue cards and asks them to make dialogues using the target
structure.
-T does not intervene unless SS need help in word finding difficulty.
Ex: Homework
Your friend: did you do your homework? Cue cards
You: Yes, I did.
- Football match.
- TV
- Travel
- What did you in last summer?
- Ask your friend about what he/she did yesterday.
- Ask your partner whether he prepared for the exams.
- Ask your classmate if he went to the zoo with their family.
- What was your best moment last year?
Follow up
Free examples
-T asks SS to give their own examples using the TS.
-T asks SS to do the exercise 4 on page 15 (at home).

Prepared by: Abderrazzak HASSAR