Summer Ayaz Summer Ayaz

Past Simple Tense
Beginners level

Description

In this lesson plan, students are introduced to the past simple tense to learn how to discuss completed events in the past. The tense will be introduced through the context of past holidays. The teacher will demonstrate and elicit the grammatical structure of the tense using activities related to students' last holidays. Students will then practice the tense in some speaking and writing activities to check their understanding of what they have learned.

Materials

Abc Timeline Poster
Abc Event Posters (Christmas, Thanks Giving, New Year.. etc
Abc Flashcards of some winter activities
Abc Irregular verb flashcards
Abc Last year's calendar
Abc Worksheet
Abc Laptop
Abc Papers

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to understand the use and the structure of the past simple tense including regular and irregular verbs

Subsidiary Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to use the past simple tense accurately meanwhile they will expand their vocabularies related to related topics to holidays.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-10 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

T will start by introducing the topic of the day: "Today, we’re going to talk about some past events, such as what you did during the winter break and past holidays" T will stick some flashcards and photos on the WB of different holidays such as Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Thanksgiving..etc T will write on the WB to provide Ss with e.g. in the past describing how T spent their previous holidays. T will give students 2-3 minutes to form 3-5 sentences on how they spent their previous holidays.

Language focus (7-10 minutes) • To allow Ss to identify the past simple tense grammatical structure of regular verbs and forms for irregular verbs

T asks Ss to read what they wrote and write it down on the WB. T will elicit the knowledge and understanding of Ss using the sentences to explain the tense structure by underlining the verb and how to conjugate it. Then T will ask the students to get engaged in drilling exercises to practice the tense conjugation and pronunciation.

Highlighting (3-5 minutes) • To draw attention to the difference between regular and irregular verbs

T will draw two squares on the board one for the regular e.g. (d, ed, ied.. etc), and one for the irregular e.g. ( Became, Brought, built.. etc) to explain the differences and how it's formed.

Clarification (3-5 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

T will break down the structure of the regular verbs by writing down on the WB different examples of verb endings and applying the appropriate past tense rules. (e.g., for verbs ending in "-e" we add d, for CVC verbs we double the final consonant and add "-ed", for Verbs ending in consonant + "y" change "y" to "i" and add "-ed") etc.

Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To assist Ss with using the past simple regular verbs and forming them

T will handle Ss a worksheet with several sentences each sentence contains a verb written in the wrong way T will ask Ss to write the verbs in the correct form. T will ask Ss to check their answers in pairs when finished. T will ask each S to read a sentence to pay attention to their pronunciation and to check for any errors.

Semi-Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check further and prepare students for free practice

T will ask Ss to work in groups of three to four to discuss what they did last weekend. Each group needs to write five to seven sentences and then each group will present it to their classmates.

Free Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

T will ask each S to write five sentences about what they did last holiday—four true and one false. Ss take turns reading their work aloud while their classmates guess which one is false. At the end of this activity, T will review some of the Ss errors and give detailed feedback to avoid common mistakes Ss might make.

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