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TP4
Elementary level

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide review and practice simple past tense irregular verbs in the context of celebrations

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice reading and producing irregular verbs in the past simpel tense in the context of celebrations

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Focus students on the pictures with kids playing in the show. Elicit from the students who they are and what they were doing. Do you remember these people? What did they do? This winter, it snowed, remember? We went to the park. It was very cold. Our kids slid down the hill. We made snow angels. We had so much fun.

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of the task and highlight useful words and phrases in blog entries

ex.1 Students will individually look back at the three blog entries and underline 12 irregular verbs. Do not include WAS. Then Ss will compare their answers with a partner. And have them write the past and infinitive form of the verb. One at a time, they should write them on the board? (They will also be on a PPT slide. Teacher can drill the sentence fragments including the past form of the verbs.

Task (5-5 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills Fill in the blank Ex.2

Ss will then fill in the blanks (with a partner) and then the students will read individually one sentence at a time. This will provide the opportunity for students to peer check and for teacher to catch any mistakes.

Further Controlled Practice #2 and Drilling (7-10 minutes) • To enable students another Controlled Practice and Drill

Ss will focus on exercise 3? In partners, students will identify the answers. As a class the teacher will nominate students to fill in the blanks and then drill the sentences together. Possibly have students stand up and write in the blanks. Focus on pronunciation, allowing time for marking the stress.

Planning (7-10 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to plan students' reports

Ss will work individually to unscramble the questions. Then students will check their answers in pairs. With the teacher they will drill the questions. Have the students turn to eachother and ask the questions? Focus on tone? Teacher will have the students think for about 30 seconds to decide on a birthday party, wedding, new year's eve party or other to talk about. Do you have it? Ok,

Language Practice (10-12 minutes) • To allow students to try asking the questions and responding in past simple

Teacher will assign the questioner and the answerer and Ss will work in pairs asking the questions to eachother and responding.

Feedback • Give time for feedback as a class on the board.

While monitoring, teacher will have taken notes and will write them on the board to correct as a class.

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