LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL:
TEACHER:
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
DATE: 26th November
GRADE: 7TH
COURSE BOOK: Snapshot Pre-Intermediate
NB.OF HOURS/WEEK: 2
UNIT: 6th (The car was sinking)
TOPIC: PAST TENSES
TITLE OF THE LESSON: PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS
TYPE OF LESSON: GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY TEACHING
COMPETENCES:
1. Ss will be able to distinguish the two tenses
2. Ss will be able to know when they should use past simple and when
they should use past continuous
3. Ss will be able to make simple sentences and at the same time to solve
exercises with the two tenses
AIDS: course book, blackboard
CLASS MANAGEMENT: PAIR WORK, GROUP WORK, INDIVIDUAL WORK

LESSON STAGES
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Lesson
stages

1.

Organizing
the class

2.

Homework
check-up

Tim
e
1`

4`

Teacher`s
activity

Student`s
activity

Aims

Methods

Material
s

The teacher
greets the
students;
she asks
them
questions
like: `How
are you
today?`,
Who is on
duty today?
` etc. The
teacher
checks if
there are
any absents
and
prepares for
the lesson.

The
students
greet the
teacher.
They
answer the
teacher`s
questions.
The
students
on duty
announces
the
absents (if
there are
any).

-to create a
proper
atmosphere
for teaching
the new
lesson

conversati
on

The teacher
asks the
students

The
students
answer the

-to check
the

conversati

Class
oranizati
on

Interacti
on

-whole
class

TeacherStudent,
StudentTeacher

notebook

-whole
class

TeacherStudent,
Student2

3.

Checking
previous
knowledge

5`

`What was
your
homework
for today?`,
`Was it
difficult?`.
The teacher
names
some
students to
read the
homework.
She checks
it.

questions.
The
students
named by
the teacher
read the
homework
They had
to describe
a person .

mistakes

The teacher
forms
groups of 4
students
and asks
each group
to read the
text from
page 36.
The teacher
asks
students to
look at the
verbs used

The
students
read the
text and
try to
answer
their
teacher`s
question .

-to check
previous
knowledge

on

Teacher

blackboar
d

conversati
on

- book

-group
work

TeacherStudent,
StudentTeacher
StudentStudent

in the text
and identify
the tenses.
4.

5.

Warm-up

Activity 1:
writing

5`

15`

The teacher
writes on
the
blackboard
the title:
Past tenses:
Past Simple
and Past
Continuous.
The teacher
asks the
students if
they
remember
something
about these
tenses.

The
students
write the
title in their
notebooks
and try to
answer the
teacher`s
question.

-to
familiarize
students
with the
new topic

conversati
on

notebook
s

-whole
class

The teacher
writes on
the
blackboard
the theory
related to
past simple
and past

The
students
write the
theory in
their
notebooks.

-to
understand
the
differences
between
two tenses

conversati
on

blackboar -individual
d
work

-writing

notebook
s

-individual
work
blackboar
d

-whole
class

Teacher
Student,
Student Teacher

TeacherStudent,
StudentTeacher

continuous.
6.

7.

Activity 2:
exercises

Feed-back

15`

3`

The teacher
gives to the
students the
worksheet
and asks
them to
solve the
exercises.
The
students
have to
work in
groups. The
students
have 10
minutes to
solve the
exercises
and then 5
minutes to
tell the
correct
answers.

The
students
try to solve
the
exercises
which are
on the
worksheet.
Each group
chooses a
leader who
reads the
answers.

-to check
understandi
ng

The teacher
asks
students to
write simple

The
students
try to write
the

-to be able
to use the
two tenses
in simple

-reading
-writing
-speaking
conversati
on

conversati
on

workshee
t
blackboar
d

notebook
s

-whole
class

TeacherStudents

-group
work

StudentsTeacher
StudentStudent

-pairwork

TeacherStudents
Students5

8.

9.

Homework

Dismissing
students

1`

1`

dialogues
using the
two past
tenses. The
students
have to
work with
their
deskmate.
The teacher
asks
students to
solve
exercise 5
from page
38.

dialogue in
their
notebooks.

sentences.

The
students
write in
their
notebooks
what they
have to do
for the next
English
hour.

-to
understand
the uses of
the past
simple and
past
continuous

Greetings

Greetings

-writing

conversati
on

blackboar
d

notebook
s

Teacher
StudentsStudent

-whole
class

TeacherStudents
StudentsTeacher