past simple
intermediate level grade 2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of the past simple tense in the context of holiday
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of holiday,travelling
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To provide product writing practice of a story in the context of weekend
Procedure (45-59 minutes)
teacher will ask students about what they did in the last holiday ? where did they go? what did they do? then the teacher will start by talking about her holiday for example in my last holiday i travelled to Miami . then the teacher will listen to the students talking about their last holiday.
the teacher will start by showing the students some pictures about free time activities let students guess what you are going to talk about then i will give them the first example last weekend i climbed a mountain .then i will give them positive and negative examples then questions and short answers .then i will let them to talk about each picture
the teacher created a context, the teacher will give the student a handout to highlight the past simple verbs . then students will write the sentences with past actions on the whiteboard.
the teacher will use the sentences on the board to clarify the meaning from pronunciation. the teacher will elicit the sentences by asking CCQs what did beth do? the students will answer she baked a cake. the teacher will ask the students is this action happening now the students will say no the teacher will ask again is this action happened in the past they will say yes . then the teacher will highlight all the past verbs to make it clear to the students .
the teacher will let the students to work in groups to answer the exercise and she will be monitoring the students to check their mistakes .the teacher will let the students with the correct answer to help the others with the answer key on board.
the teacher will play with the students the memory circle game the students will stay in a circle the teacher will start with the first sentence i played football the the next student will complete with another sentence in the past to form a story .the teacher will correct their mistakes to let them ready for the free practice activity.
the teacher will ask the student to write about their best holiday and the happiest moments and what they did in this holiday.