Name: Date: 08/04/2024 Length of lesson: 55mins Level: Common Core Lesson: Past Simple

What are you teaching?

Language skills – highlight the primary skill you will teach and underline others students will use to help them learn

Speaking Listening Reading Writing Grammar Functions Lexis Pronunciation

Objectives

By the end of the session, students will be able to use the simple past to talk about what they did yesterday with their classmates in a mingling activity.

Preliminary considerations:

What aspects of the lesson do you anticipate your students might find How will you avoid and/or address each of these problem areas?
challenging/difficult?

Incorporate speaking and writing activities that require students to use

past tense in meaningful contexts, such as storytelling, describing past
Applying the past simple tense in speaking and writing activities events, or discussing personal experiences. Offer feedback and correction
accurately. during these activities to reinforce accurate usage.

Time Stage/ Purpose Procedure/Steps Interaction Materials needed

T→S

S↔S; S-S-S

5’ Warmup T. greets the students T→S Picture

T. introduces the theme of heroes; T asks Ss: Who is your favorite hero?" and "What did this hero do
to become a hero?" Encourage a few students to share their answers. S→T
T. writes a few example sentences of the students on the board while highlighting the verbs’ tense in
the simple past.

• "Superman saved the city."

 • "Marie Curie discovered radium."

• "Nelson Mandela fought for freedom."

10’ Encounter • T holds a sheet in their hand then explain to students and Introduce the text they will be
reading, giving a short overview without revealing too much detail. For example, "Today, we'll
Handouts
read about a person who did something very brave some time ago."
T→S
T gives instructions:

I want each of you to read the text silently. As you read, underline all the verbs in the simple past in
the text. Are you going to read or S→T
underline the verbs first?

S: Read the text first then

underline verbs in the simple past
tense.

T: Yes correct !

T distributes handouts.

10’ Clarify T and Ss go over the text together as a class and T elicits underlined verbs in the simple past tense Handouts
through lead-in questions:

• "Who is the hero in the story?"

T→S Whiteboard
• "What did the hero do?"

• "When did these events happen?"

S→T
• "What was the outcome of the hero's actions?"

As T elicits verbs in the simple past tense from the text, he/she writes students’ verbs on the board, T
writes regular verbs on the left side, and irregular verbs on the right side.

T points to the verbs on the left, “What is the common thing among these verbs over here?”
 S: They all end with “ed”

T: “Correct! These verbs are called regular verbs ( verb + ed), that is our lesson for today”

T: explains the form of regular verbs ( I/ you/ he/she/he/we/they : discover + ed)

T points to verbs on the right “and these verbs are called irregular verbs ( no rule)

T explains that irregular verbs have no common rule and that they should be memorized.

T simplifies irregular verbs categories:

Put/ cut/ hurt/ let…… (no change)

Lose/ get/shoot….. ( lost/ got/ shot)

Keep/ sleep/ feel…… ( kept/ slept/ felt)

Buy/fight/ teach…. ( bought/ fought/ thought)

8’ Remember T. distributes the same text about Hero but this time without verbs in the simple past. T→S

T. Asks students to work in pair and fill in the blanks with the appropriate verbs they remember from S→T Handout
the previous activity.
S→S
T: Are you going to work individually or in pairs?

Ss: In pairs.

T: Are you going to fill the gap or match?

Ss: fill in .

Ss do the exercise in pairs.

10’ Internalize T. distributes a worksheet that requires to Worksheet/
categorize verbs into regular and irregular blackboard.
besides filling in the blanks with the
accurate verb form in the simple past. The
verbs in the worksheet are to be
conjugated in affirmative, negative and
interrogative form of the simple past.

T. holds the worksheet and gives

instructions:

“ I will distribute this handout on you and I

want you to do exercise A and B in pairs.

T. Corrects the exercise with the help of

students, guiding them to identify and
correct any mistakes. Then, he asks them to
write their correct answers on the board.

12’

Fluent Use T: Write two sentences about what you did yesterday, one must be true, and the other must be false. S→S

Eg: “I traveled to Paris yesterday”. “I walked near the beach yesterday.” Mingling Activity

When you finish, stand up, when I clap, start walking around, when you hear the second clap, stop
and ask the closest student about what they did yesterday, find the lie.

How to divide the Board?

Encounter

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Clarity

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Notes
The main Section

Remember
Internalize

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Notes
Correction

Fluently use