TITLE: Talking about past events using irregular verbs

TARGET: Students of 2nd media Italian school (grade 7th) 24 students, mother tongue Italian

English as foreign language towards A1 level

Lesson aims and objectives

Expressing past events

Reporting past events

Talk about past events in English as a foreign language

Acquiring specific vocabulary (irregular verbs)

Recognizing the use of past simple in English and its reference in Italian

ACTIVITIES:

listening to a dialogue 10 MINUTES

Working on its transcript 10 MINUTES

Making questions on the transcript (oral skills) 10 minutes

Reading and translating 15 minutes

Underline verbs at simple irregular and regular verbs past and past expressions 5MINUTES

Copy irregular verbs on a chart in the laptop 10- 15 MINUTES

Listen to their pronunciation and repeat 5 MINUTES

Writing sentences using the list of the verbs 10 15 minutes (with the help of dictionaries - one for

each student- software pre - installed in the laptops)

Commenting and correcting some examples of the students work 15 minutes

Interactive cloze exercise on regular verbs 10 MINUTES

Survey with multiple choice on forming the past simple of irregular verbs 10MINUTES

Place: Multimedia Language Lab the set includes an interactive board a teacher pc console

controlling the students- 24 laptops linked to the main teacher desktop

Time required for completing each activity and the overall lesson 2 hours

Software/web 2.0 tools to be used

Netschoolsupportschool media lab

Windows WordPad and office word

Course book software cd-rom multiple-choice exercises

Hot potatoes for cloze tests

Unit 3 High Spirits Dialogue reporting past events

Pre - based knowledge about regular verbs at past simple

Activities:

Teacher and students listening the recording (two characters. a boy and a girl speaking about what

they did last night) - Transcript showed to students through interactive whiteboard and projected on

their laptops screen using the Netsupportschool lab pointing out and underline verbs past simple

tense (irregular and regular) underlining irregular ones conveying their meaning through explanation

both in English and in mother tongue

Teacher and students Reading by teacher - students by students using the headsets to

communicate teacher student -. Reading (students) listening carefully (teacher) and correcting the

pronounce- Translating orally students with help by the teacher - Questions on the text (oral) (who are

the two students? Where are they? What are they talking about? What did they do yesterday ? etc)

Collecting answers form the students correcting mistakes - . Trying to figure out the meaning of the

irregular pat verbs searching for them in the course book carts of irregular verbs recovering the base

form (helped by the teachers).

Students Creating and filling a chart in a word document with base form, translation in Italian and past

form of the irregular verbs inside the transcript of the dialogue (reinforcement exercise)

Correction by the teacher monitoring the students screen through the teachers desktop

Writing two sentences for each verb sending them through Net support school lab chat

Teacher choosing some of them and writing on the interactive board. Class correction. Teacher and

students. Class correction commenting eventually mistakes, use of the interactive board to underline

and correct mistakes

Consolidation- Students Surveys using Net support school Survey tool on irregular verbs, recognizing

base form

Teacher fast brief evaluation of level of learning by students through the polls exit

Final evaluation

Teachers and Students

Cloze tests with definite time using Hot potatoes software ten minutes to fill the gap test successfully

90-100 per cent as results

Revision of the test and correction using the Interactive Whiteboard.

End of the lesson.

Emanuela Leto English Teachers a I C Laura Lanza Baronessa di Carini(PA) Italy

Bibliography

Bowen Delaney High Spirits volume 2 with Multirom