Lesson Plan

Present Perfect
Date: 22nd October 2010 Level: 8º grade, primary school

Skill:
 Writing skills
 Speaking skills
Expected Outcomes:
 Students will understand the use of present perfect
 Students will comprehend the grammatical form of present perfect
 Students will write sentences about their classmates lives
 Students will find out new words in their dictionaries
 Students will create meaningful sentences about their classmates lives
 Students will clarify any doubt about present perfect form and use
 Students will ask their classmates about some moments of their lives
 Students will learn how to pronounced some irregular verbs
 Students will learn how to ask using present perfect tenses
 Students will notice the difference between has and have

Resources:
 students´ book
 students´ notebook
 dictionary (if it is needed)
 piece of paper with the sentences and question form
Time Comments

Introduction 15  Clarification of the use and form of present perfect on

min the board
 Show students the list of irregular verbs on students´
book (page 125-126)
 Remembering of the last activity done. Some
Core of the class sentences were very unusual and now they will find
out who had done some of them
Pre-stage
10
min  Explanation of the main activity for today: “About you”
 Write on the board an example :
I have cut a tree
While-stage
Explain that some of their partners wrote the last class
very unusual sentences
30
min
 Students will find out who did what using the list of
weird things done by their classmates
 Teacher gives the form of how to ask in present
perfect sentences in a piece of paper
Have you ever…..
…Cut a tree?
 Teacher talks about the pronunciation of the main
question Have you ever…?
 Teacher gives tips to pronounced correctly
Post-stage  Students practice the pronunciation during the activity

15
Closing min  Students write the resulting sentences using the name
of their classmates in each one