LESSON PLAN

School: coala Gimnazial Brnova

Name: Maria Adam (Aciobniei)
Date: December 12th 2016
Grade: 6th
Level: Elementary (L2)
Number of students: 19
Text Book: Snapshot Elementary
Unit: Girls Screamed and Wept
Language focus: Past Simple of Irregular Verbs
Vocabulary: Music Genres, Music Industry terms
Time: 50 minutes
Type of lesson: Mixed (Revision Regular Verbs - Introducing new material)
Methods and techniques: conversation, explanation, gap-filling exercises
Skills developed: Integrated skills with special focus on listening and speaking
Materials: blackboard, textbook, handouts, song, word-search
Competences: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

Use past tense simple in order to express past events;

Identify past tense simple in different contexts;

Anticipated problems: Some students might have difficulties in understanding the difference
between regular and irregular verbs.
Possible solutions: Such confusions may be eliminated by practicing the most common
irregular verbs and integrating them in helpful contexts.

ACTIVITY 1: ORGANIZATION AND WARM-UP

Aims: to create a warm and inviting atmosphere
Teachers activity
T greets the students and
checks attendance.
T checks the home
assignment and corrects
the mistakes if there are
any.

Students activity
Ss greet the teacher,
mention the absentees and
check homework.

Interactio
n
T-S
S-T

Skills
Speaking

Timing
5 min

ACTIVITY 2: LEAD-IN
Aims: to capture the students attention and introduce them to the topic of the lesson.
Teachers activity

Students activity

T asks Ss what kind of

music they like.
T places a sheet of paper
on the blackboard with a
picture of The Beatles. T
asks Ss if they know who
they are.
T explains who they are
and asks Ss whether they
know anything about
them, whether they think
it is a recent band, what
kind of music they play
etc. T also explains the
meaning of the term
Beatlemania.

Ss give different answers,

using simple vocabulary of
musical genres: pop, rock,
hip-hop etc.

Interactio
n
T-S
S-T

Skills
Speaking

Timing
2 min

Ss guess what type of music

The Beatles played.

ACTIVITY 3: READING COMPREHENSION

Aims: Practice reading skills
Teachers activity
T asks Ss to open their
textbooks on p. 49, then
read the text.
T invites Ss to write a
date for each headline.
Then, they have to match

Students activity
Ss read the text aloud to
practice pronunciation.

In pairs, Ss provide dates

for each headline and match

Interactio
n
T-S
S-T

Skills
Reading

Speaking

Timing
10 min

the headlines with a

paragraph in the text.

them with the paragraphs in

the text.

ACTIVITY 4: REVISING PAST SIMPLE REGULAR VERBS AND INTRODUCING

IRREGULAR VERBS
AIMS: Practice Past Simple forms of both regular and irregular verbs
Teachers activity
T asks Ss to skim the text
again and provide
examples of Past Simple
regular verbs.
Then, T selects other
verbs from the text:
wept, became, held, went
etc. and explains that
these are irregular verbs.
T writes the following
sentence on the
blackboard: He saw them
in London. T asks Ss:
Who saw them?
T asks: Is this a regular
or irregular verb?
T adds the negative form:
He didnt see them in
London.
T also adds the
interrogative: Did he see
them? and short answer:
Yes, he did. / No, he
didnt.
T asks Ss to give the past
tense forms of the verbs
in 3a/50.
T asks Ss to complete the
sentences on Ex. 3/p.50,
using the past tense form
of the irregular verbs on
3 a)
T introduces the new
vocabulary related to the
music industry: band,
rhythm, lead, and base-

Students activity
Ss provide examples such
as: screamed, died, played,
faded etc.

Interactio
n
T-S
S-T

Skills
Speaking

S-S

Ss answer: Brian Epstein.

Speaking
Ss answer: Irregular verb.
Ss observe that the negative
is formed by using didnt +
infinitive
Writing

Ss work in pairs to recall

the past tense forms and
then check the text again to
see if they were correct.
Ss complete the sentences
and compare their answers
with the whole class.
Ss write the new words in
their notebooks.

Speaking

Timing
15 min

guitars, drums, record

shop, manager, hit
record, album chart,
singles.
ACTIVITY 5: LISTENING ACTIVITY
AIMS: Practice listening
Teachers activity
T tells the Ss they will
listen to a song by the
Beatles. (I saw her
standing there)
T plays the song once
and asks the Ss if they
liked it.
Then, T asks Ss to open
their books on p.63,
where they see the lyrics
to the song. T explains
that they will listen to the
song again and fill in the
gaps in the text.
T asks Ss to look at ex.
3/p.63 and choose the
sentence that best
describes the song.

Students activity

Interactio
n
Ss place the time adverbials T-S
in the correct spot within
S-T
the sentence.

Speaking

Ss listen to the song a

second time and fill in the
blanks.

Listening

Ss check the answers

provided by their partners.
Ss read the sentences and
choose sentence c)

Skills

Timing
15 min

S-S

ACTIVITY 5: FEEDBACK AND HOME ASSIGNMENT

Teachers activity
T congratulates Ss on
their participation and
awards marks. T gives
students a word-search
sheet as home
assignment.

Students activity
Ss ask questions about the
homework if they have any
problem understanding the
task.

Interactio
n
T-S
S-T

Skills
Speaking

Timing
3 min