lesson plan. simple past. by mohsen mohsen ali, yemen

8/10/2019 Lesson Plan. Simple Past. By Mohsen Mohsen Ali, Yemen

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ohsen ohsenTeachers;

LESSON PLAN : What did you do yesterday? TIME: 45 50 minutesFOCUS: Past simple LEVEL: Pre-intermediate

MAIN OBJECTIVES After this lesson, Ss will be able to ask and answer

questions using simple past tense.

LANGUAGEPractice positive, negative and question forms in the past simple.

Warm-up Activity:

On the board write some verbs in the simple past form:showed brought came bought got up

rode ate played gave ran listenedread watched got broke

spoke talked cut stoppedhad saw told

Then, divide Ss into two teams, standing at the back of the classroom.Give each team a different colored board marker.

Tell Ss that when I say a verb in its infinitive, one person from eachteam must run to the board and circle the same verb in its past simpleform.The first person to circle the correct verb gets a point for their team.Each student isn't allowed to do it again unless all his team membersparticipated.The winner is the team with the most points when all the words have

been circled.


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PRESENTATION 5-10 mnts

1- On the board write :

I play football

Yesterday Im playing football

I played football

Ask students which ending is correct . Explain that we use the past simple whentalking about things which we did yesterday or in the past .


Yesterday

I play football. I played football .

I watch television. I _____ television

Ask students what the missing word is .

Ask students to put two or three other sentences into the past simple until you are sure theyget the idea .


I played football. I didnt play football .

I watched television. I didnt watch television .

Read what is written on the board, shaking your head when reading the negative sentencesto indicate that these things did not happen .

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On the board write:

I read a book. I didnt ______ read a book .

I bought an ice cream. I ______ buy an ice cream .

I saw my friend. I ______ ______ my friend.

Ask students to fill in the blanks .

Do more examples orally until you are sure students understand .


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you / play football / yesterday ?

Ask students to make these words into a question .

Using other prompts like the one above, ask students to form questions in the past simple .

COMMUNICATION PRACTICE ACTIVITY (1)

10 mnts.

Hand out a copy of Lucy and Michael to each student.

COMMUNICATION PRACTICE ACTIVITY (2)

10 mnts.

On the board write :

do / yesterday / did / what / you ?

Ask the students to rearrange the words to form a question .


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Hand out a copy of Jacks day to each student .

Show students the picture of Jack and explain that he was asked the question

What did you do yesterday? and this is his answer .

Read the text at a normal speed and tell the students to tick the things that Jack didyesterday.

PRODUCTION ACTIVITY

10 mnts

Ask a strong student What did you do yesterday ?

Ask another student Did you watch television yesterday ?

On the board write :

Did you _______ yesterday ?

Yes, I did. No, I didnt .

Ask individual students questions using Did you _______ yesterday ?

Elicit Yes, I did and No, I didnt .

Hand out a copy of the Questionnaire to each student .

Tell them first to fill in the You column .

Then tell the students to find a partner and ask them questions to fill in the Partner1 column . Students then change partners to complete the Partner 2 column .

WRAP-UP ACTIVITY

10 mnts

Hand out a copy of Correct sentence for students to complete in pairs.


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Notes:

LESSON PLAN: What did you do yesterday?TEACHINGNOTESWARM-UPACTIVITY

Read this list of verbs:On the board write some verbs in the simple past form:8 show 12 bri ng 16 come 7 buy 3 get up

4 r ide 13 eat 9 play 1 give 11 run 5 l isten 18 read17 watch 19 get 15 break 2 speak 10 talk 6 cut 14 stop

20 have 21 see 22 tell

to model verb (write)

PRESENTATION This presentation revises the form of the past simple rather than teaches itfrom scratch.

COMMUNICATIONPRACTICEACTIVITY

Before students read the text, ask them to look at the pictures and ask themquestions about what they can see.Pre- teach the word climbing frame.

Answer:Yesterday Lucy and Michael got up late because they didnt have to go toschool. They watched television while they ate their breakfast.After breakfast they went to the park, they both ran to the climbing frame,

but Michael got there first. They played on the climbing frame for a longtime.In the afternoon Lucy and Michael went to a birthday party. It was theirgrandmothers birthday. Lucy gave her grandmother a present and a card andlater they all ate cake.

COMMUNICATION

PRACTICE

ACTIVITY

Before doing the listening activity, ask the students about the boy in the picture, eg. how old do they think he is.

Tell the stu dents that you will read the text more than once, so it doesntmatter if they do not understand everything the first time.

Text:

What did I do yesterday? Well, I got up really early, and I went out and

bought the newspaper for my father.


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Then at ten o clock I went to the park with my friend Peter, we played basketball, then we bought an ice cream, and we rode our bikes home.

In the afternoon I watched television, then I went to my bedroom and did myhomework.

In the evening I listened to music and rea d my book. Then, at nine oclock Iwent to bed.

PRODUCTIONACTIVITY

Monitor to check that students are using the target language.

If time permits, students could write a few short sentences about the resultsof their questionnaire as a follow up activity.

Eg. Daisy watched television, saw her friend and rode a bike yesterday, butshe didnt go to school or do her homework.

WRAP-UP

ACTIVITY

Do the first exercise on the board to show the class an example.

lesson plan. simple past. by mohsen mohsen ali, yemen

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