Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN

TEACHER`S NAME:

SCHOOL:

DATE: the fifth of May, 2006

TIME: 9.00-9.50

NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 22

GRADE: V D

TEXTBOOK:Pathway to English

UNIT OF LEARNING: Sports and games

TOPIC: Revision

SKILLS: writing, speaking, reading

LANGUAGE FOCUS : reviewing the past simple tense, regular and irregular verbs

LESSON AIMS: by the end of the lesson the students will be able to:

1. recognize the past simple tense-regular and irregular verbs

2. use the structure to make sentences of their own (affirmative, negative and interrogative)

3. name some sports

4. express preferences

AIDS (MATERIALS): testpaper, chalk, blackboard, sheets of paper

ORGANIZATIONAL MOMENT: the student on duty tells the absents; the teacher writes the absentees in the catalogue; then the teacher checks homework and students correct mistakes, if necessary.

Timing: 6 minutes

ACTIVITY 1:

Aims: to test the ability of the students to :

-use the correct form of verbs in the past simple tense;

-write complete sentences

-rearrange letters so as to form words

Timing: 20 minutes

Interaction: individual work

Procedures: the teacher tells the students that they will get a testpaper; hands out the papers and explains their tasks, students do the exercises, then hand in the testpapers.

ACTIVITY 2:

Aims: to reinforce students’s knowledge and use the simple past tense in a fun and competitive way, to practice making sentences in the simple past tense

Timing: 22 minutes

Interaction: T-S/group work

Procedures: teacher tells students that they are going to play a special Tic-Tac-Toe game in which they will use the past tense of several different irregular verbs. Teacher divides the class in 2 teams. Teacher draws a big tic-tac-toe grid on the board, numbers the squares so that the students can identify the square of their choice by stating the number. Students say base forms of irregular verbs. The students from each team choose, in turn, a verb, say the past form of the verb and form a sentence. If it is correct, the teacher writes the x or o in the square.The winner team is the one who places four of the same marks in a continuous line either horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Students work in groups and form pairs, decide which is X and which is 0. Teacher distributes pieces of paper with the grids and verbs. Taking turns each student reads aloud one of the verbs. The student then uses the past tense of the verb and forms a sentence, if it is correct, he/she can write an X or 0.

T gives homework

Timing: 2 minutes

The teacher asks the students to play the game with someone and write sentences with the past forms of the verbs.