Daily Lesson Planning

Subject : English Form/Class : 4 Intelect

Date : 22/08/2009 No. of students : 35/38
Time : 8.30-9.10 a.m
Topic : Present perfect tense
Level of : Pre-intermediate
proficiency

General objective : The sudent will understand how to use the present perfect

Specific objective : By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
(1) Know when to use Present Perfect
(2) Form sentences using present perfect tense

Prior knowledge : the students has been exposed simple past tense

Teaching aids/Material : Power point

Steps :
Set induction The teacher writes/show 3 sets of sentences on the board as below:
(3 minutes) 1 a) I have seen all of Steven Spielberg’s films
b) I saw his latest film last month.
2 a) Since 1990, she’s worked for three different newspapers.
b) She worked for the New Straits Time in 2003.
3 a) Have you ever been to Langkawi?
b) When were you in Langkawi?

The teacher ask students first to identify the two verb structures in each of
the sentences and establishes that each sentence a is an example of the
present perfect, while each sentence b is an example of the past simple. If
students are doubt about this, the teacher quickly recaps the rules of form for
each of these structures.

Step 1 The teacher asks the students to consider the differences in meaning in each
(10 minutes) case (1-3), and to see if they can come out with the rule for the difference
between the present perfect and the past simple tenses.
Notes: The Present perfect is used to talk about experience but without
specifying when it happened,
The past simple is used to talk about a specific experience, often at a
past time
To clarify this point, teacher draws the following timelines on the board and
asks students to match them to the examples a or b.

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Example 1: Ask students to search sentences that have used present

 perfect tenses from articles that will be given by the teacher.

Step 2 The teacher will start the explanation of the “rules” of present perfect tense.
(20 minutes) The teacher then will highlights the use of present perfect tense in the text.
The teacher asks student to do some exercises to know if student comprehend
the topic.
Exercises
Step 3 Teacher asks student to do some activities that related to the tense for more
(7 minutes) understanding:
1. Spot the changes ; the students are asked to name the changes that
have taken place in Picture B compared to Picture A. To vary the
activity, teachers make the maps more interesting.
2. Board game; students are asks to do games in the classroom same as
monopoly. Teacher set the rules (the players, the penalties, etc.)

Assessment Teacher asks students to do some exercises in English text book page 234-
236

Prepared by
Mastura Leana Baki