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Lesson Plan: Talking about past events using irregular verbs. This lesson plan has been submitted by Emanuela Leto to the Language Learning Lesson Plan Competition organised by the social media promotion team of the Master of Arts in Digital Technologies for Language Teaching.More information about the Competition: http://dt4lt.blogspot.com/search/label/Language%20Learning%20Lesson%20Plan%20Competition

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  • 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