Date : Timing: 55 minutes Unit 1: Our cultural heritage

Level : 1st BAC School : Azzaytoun High School Lesson Focus: GRAMMAR

Textbook: Gateway to Teacher: Hala ARCHIDI Integrated skills: The four skills.
ENGLISH
Objectives : by the end of the lesson, students will be able to :

 Distinguish between simple past and present simple.

 Recognize and use appropriately the simple past of irregular verbs.
 Use the target structure to generate accurate sentences.
 Talk about their past activities using the simple past of regular and irregular verbs.
Anticipate problems:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Solutions: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. .
Homework: To write a short paragraph about what did you do yesterday following the model we discussed in the class.!
Instructional aids, material or tools needed: TEXBOOK,, Whiteboard
Mode
Techniq Timi
Stages Activities and procedures of
ues ng
work
T greets Ss:” Good morning”
-T. asks: “How are you doing?”
T writes the date wrong and let the sts to react to the incident.
T asks the sts what date it is and why it is the wrong date.
Sts say the date is wrong, and that it is yesterday and the month is last month, and the
year is last year and they are all in the past.

-T asks sts: can anybody remind me of the title of the unit? Tongue 5min T-S
Warm up
Sts: …………………… Twister S S-S
-“T writes “Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter”
-Ask sts to repeat it …
-T asks sts “How many verbs do we have in this tongue twister?’!
-T Writes them on the board. Then, asks sts “Which tense is that!!”
-SS: Simple Past.
-T: So, todays lesson is the “SIMPLE PAST TENSE”

Observatio - Sts observe the following examples on the board.

n
1. He followed her yesterday.
15min
COMPLETED
2. He grabbed her purse yesterday.
ACTIONS IN THE
3. She screamed yesterday.
PAST = PAST SIMPLE Silent
4. Policemen caught him yesterday.
viewing
T focuses on the components of the
sentences to make them identify the verbs.

-T asks sts about “verb to be” in the simple past!

 -Through the various examples that are provided by students, they elicit the three
forms of Past Simple – Affirmative, Negative and interrogative
-Tr explain the main use of simple past then provides some time expressions
- On the board sts complete the following chart

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

Regular Irregular To be Other verbs To be Other

verbs T-S
To be Other
verbs

I played/ I was I bought I was not I Was I Did I

talked … {wasn’t} You Did You +
You were You Were You ….?
You ** Went You were not didn’t + base
He was {weren’t} base Was He of the
He did of the verb+? S-S
He **
She was He verb Was She
She** She saw
It was She was not He Was It
It ** It spoke {wasn’t} Did He
We were She Were We
Hypothesi We ** We It Did She
You were wrote It W-H
zing Were You 15min
Did It Questions
Ypu ** We
They You got
Were They
were Theytoo We Did We
They ** You were not
k
weren’t Ypu Did You

They They Did They

Pronunciation of /ed/ {d, t, id}

/d/ /t/ /id/

................y P
w K
v Sh
l Ch T
m X d
n Ss T/S
b Gh
v c

Examples;
Wanted, added, ended, stopped, worked, finished

Experimen - Sts to do the exercises ……on page …. Cloze Pair

ting exercises work

Gap
filling
20min
Group
work
Homework: to write a paragraph about what did you do yesterday.!

Solo
work
 Affirmative Negative Interrogative

Regular Irregular To be Other verbs To be Other verbs

To be Other
verbs

I played/ I was I bought I was not I Was I Did I

talked … {wasn’t} You
You were You Went Were You ….? Did You
You ** You were not didn’t
He He did {weren’t} + base Was He +
He ** of the
She was She saw He verb Was She
She** He
base
It It spoke She was not Was It of the
It ** {wasn’t} She verb
We We wrote Were We +?
We ** It It
Did He
You were You got Were You
Ypu ** Theytook We Did She
They We Were They
They ** You were not Did It
Ypu
weren’t Did We
They
They Did You

Did They
Uses:

1- To talk about actions which occurred (started and finished) at a known time in the past.

Time expressions:

Yesterday

 day
Last + time +  week + Verb in the (Simple past)
 month
 year

In + time in the past (in

2016…..) Ago
The day before
Once upon a
time, It is high
time
When
previously