Sample class Candy
Sample class Candy
SAMPLE CLASS
Coversheet
Teacher: Candy Berenice Abarca González
To familiarize students with the main use of the simple past and the present perfect.
Learners have seen and practiced both tenses before (simple past and present perfect)
Students already know the structure of both target tenses (simple past and present perfect)
Learners know common simple past and present perfect time expressions but in this class they will learn to differentiate them better.
AP: Teacher might have difficulty in placing students in breakout rooms to do the final productive activity.
PS: teacher will assign the couples and ask them to finish first the activity on their own and then share the answers with the rest of the group in
the main session.
Lesson plan
Time Stage/Activity Goal/Objective Procedure Interaction Material needed
2 min Greetings To create a T – Ss
harmonious ● Teacher waits for all the students to be in
atmosphere in the class. None
classroom so that
students can start ● Teacher asks students how they are and
to feel some other questions related to their
comfortable in answers.
lesson.
5 min Warm-Up To slowly prepare T – Ss • Insect slappers
students for the ● Teacher asks some students what they did
• Blackboard
main topic of the last Saturday.
lesson. This first
stage will help ● Once learners have shared their answers,
teacher to teacher asks some others what wild dishes
activate learners´ and drinks they have tried and about the
prior knowledge times they have tried them as well.
in relation to the
simple past tense ● Teacher will make emphasis on the time
and the present expressions students use in their answers to
perfect one. the questions previously asked to them.
5 min Main activity To have students ● Teacher will stop sharing screen and send a T-Ss • Cards provided by
(practice stage) put into practice link to students.
teacher
what they just ● Students will be shown a word-wall activity.
saw about the They will complete the exercise in their
lesson. notebooks or in a sheet of paper. The
activity will consist in classifying the key
time expressions of the simple past and
present perfect tense.
● Once students are done, teacher will
control the activity with them.
Main activity To invite learners ● Teacher will send a word file to learners. T-Ss
follow up to use what they They will open it on their computers.
None
(Productive just learnt about
stage) the two target ● If possible, teacher will pair learners up and
tenses. assign each pair to a breakout room to
complete the activity. Teacher will explain
the instructions to the activity and let
student work on it.