Past Simple (regular verbs)
A2 (teens 12-14 years) level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Students will be able to talk about events happened in the past
Subsidiary Aims
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to revise how to say dates and years in English
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to practice pronunciation of -ed endings of regular verbs in Past Simple
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to develop reading and listening abilities
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to provide historical backgroung information
Procedure (70-90 minutes)
Get dressed for this lesson as a famous person from the past (e.g. Einstein). Ask Ss to guess who you are. Brainstorm a list of other famous people from history onto the board. Then in pairs, encourage the students to ask and answer the questions about the people. For example, Where is he/she from? What is he/she famous for? What is he/she good at?
Ask each pair to think of an important date (it can be connected with one of the famous person from the list), they can google it in the Internet. They go to the board, write the date and say it. Check the pronunciation. Other ss have to guess what happened on this date or in this year.
Divide class into 3 groups of 4 students. Give each team a small sheet of paper for writing answers (A, B, C). Show the photos and give 3 possible variants of answer, give the team 30 sec to discuss and choose the answer. Turn on pleasant music during the discussion (or music from famous Quizz show, e.g. Jeopardy), it will provide comfortable atmosphere and Ss won't hear each other's answers. Give a point to the team that have the correct answer. In the end of the quizz award winners with stickers (memes with famous people).
Ss open SB, read and discuss the answers in groups of 4. Then listen and check their answer.
Ask Ss to look through the answers again for 1 minute, then they close their books and you ask 3-4 questions from the quiz to check their answers. E.g. When did Valentina Tereshkova travel in to space? Write the sentence from the quizz on the board: Tereshkova travelled into space on the 12th of August in 1961. Ask some CCQs: " Did these events happen now or in the past?" (in the past) "How does the verb change when we use it to talk about the past?" (verb+(e)d). Point out that we call these verbs regular verbs because they all end in the same way. Demonstrate the difference in pronunciation: /d/ - after a voiced sound, /t/ - after an unvoiced sound, /id/ after /t/ and /d/. Drill in group using audio 42, and the throw a ball to ss and drill individually. You say the verb in the present, they say it in the past adding appropriate ending. Write on the board different verbs to demonstrate how to add the ending -ed, e.g. climb - climbed, change - changed, carry - carried, stay - stayed, stop - stopped. Elicit the students to make the rule how to add the ending. Divide ss into 4 teams of 3 people. Prepare cards with verbs from ex. 4, 4 markers of different colours and 4 envelopes for different endings (#1 - +ed, #2 - +d, #3 - +ied, #4 - x2+ed). Give a set of verbs and a marker to each team, stick the envelopes in different places in the class (e.g. corners). Ss work in teams, they need to read the verb, write the correct ending and put into an appropriate envelope. Check the answers and score the points for correct answers. Award the winners (e.g. Give a high-five/hug/stickers/candies)
1) Gap-filling exercise (ex 5) 2) Multiple choice exercise (ex 7) 3) 2 lies, 1 truth. Ss should write 3 sentences about themselves using verbs in ex. 8. 2 of the sentences should be false, and 1 sentence is true. Then Ss work in pairs, trying to find the true sentence. Write the prompts for answers on the board: + I think, it is true. You travelled to China with family in 2020. - I think, it is false. I don't think you travelled to China with family in 2020. Encourage Ss to use dates and years as well.
Ss needs to choose a famous person from the past. They make a presentation of him/her from the first person, describing facts of the life in the past, but they mustn't say the names. Ss can google some facts in the Internet if they need for preparation. Then they make their presentations in front of the class, other Ss guess who they are. If you want, you can choose the best presentation and award this student.
Explain in details how to do all the exercises, demonstrate if necesary. 1) Workbook ex. 3 (adding -ed), 2) Workbook ex. 4 (rewriting the sentences in the past simple), 3) Workbook ex. 5 (correct the mistakes in sentences) 4) Write 5-6 sentences about a famous person from the past
Review the main points covered in the lesson. To encourage Ss to reflect on what they learned, ask questions such as: "What was the most surprising/difficult thing you've learned today?", "Where can you use this knowledge in real life?". Provide feedback on student's work at the lesson.