Lesson Plan

Date: 19.03.2019

Teacher: Buchidău Tania

School: “Gheorghe Balș” Technical College, Adjud

Class: IX F (2 classes/ week)

Classsize: 25 students

Level: Intermediate

Timeallowed: 50 minutes

Topic: Verb Tenses

Textbook: English my love

Lessontype: consolidation of previously taught knowledge

Approach: Communicative

LESSONAIMS:

Cognitive aims:

- To enrich students’ vocabulary related to daily activities, past activities, actions that have
just taken place and actions that will take place;
- To practise the use of Present Simple, Present Continuous Tense, Past Simple, Present
Perfect Simple, Future Simple;
- To demonstrate understanding the sequence of tenses;
- To solve exercises related to the topic from controlled practice to semi-controlled and
free practice.
Affective aims:

- To encourage self-confidence;
- To create a friendly atmosphere so that the students might feel encouraged to fully
participate in class.
Teaching strategy

Skills: Integrating skills (focus on speaking, reading, writing)

Methods: explanation, conversation, various exercises, peer-assessment,

Class management: pair work, individual work, group work,

Interaction: T-C (class), C-T, T-Ss, Ss-T, S-S,

Anticipated problems:

- Students might have problems remembering/using the forms of the tenses;

- Some students might be reluctant to actively participate in the lesson.
Teaching materials:

- Textbook, worksheets, board.

STAGE, TIME & PROCEDURE
LESSON AIMS
Activity 1 (5’) Greetings;
Warm up Teacher checks attendance and asks students how they feel.
Aim: Teacher asks students to read their homework.
 To prepare students Two/ three students present their homework.
for the lesson and Teacher corrects the possible mistakes.
encourage self-
confidence;
Activity 2 (10’) Teachers asks the students some questions that are meant to help
Presentation them remember when and how they should use Present Simple
Aims: Tense/Continuous, Past Simple, Present Perfect Simple, Future
 To activate the Simple.
previous
knowledge;

Activity 3 (15’) Teacher gives students a worksheet and asks them to look
Working with grammar carefully at the image and solve the task. Students have to put the
structures verbs in the paranthesis in Present Continuous Tense.
Aims:
 To solve exercises
related to the topic
practice.
Activity 4(10’)
Working with grammar
structures
Aims:
 To solve exercises
related to the topic
practice.
Teacher asks students to change the tense of the verbs from the
exercise on the worksheet from Present Continuous Tense to
Present Simple Tense. Teacher reminds them not to forget to
change the time expressions. Students will obtain sentences that
show regular activities.

Activity 5 (7’)
Working with grammar
structures Teacher asks students to change the tense of the verbs from the
Aims: exercise on the worksheet from Present Simple Tense to Past
 To solve exercises Simple Tense. Teacher reminds them not to forget to change the
related to the topic time expressions. Students will obtain sentences that show past
practice. activities.

Activity 7 (3’) Teacher asks students to change the tense of the verbs from the
Working with grammar exercise on the worksheet from Past Simple Tense to Present
structures Perfect Simple Tense. Teacher reminds them not to forget to
Aims: change the time expressions. Students will obtain sentences that
 To solve exercises show past activities which have results in the present or activities
related to the topic that have just/already been done.
practice.
Activity 8 (3’) Teacher asks students to change the tense of the verbs from the
Working with grammar exercise on the worksheet from Present Simple Tense to Future
structures Simple Tense. Teacher reminds them not to forget to change the
Aims: time expressions. Students will obtain sentences that show actions
To solve exercises related that will take place in the future.
to the topic practice.
Activity 9 Teacher asks students to write some sentences about a daily
Feedback activity, about a past activity, about an activity going on at the
Aims: moment of speaking, about an activity that has just taken place and
 To encourage a future activity.
students’ Students work in pairs and the teacher corrects the possible
engagement and mistakes.
responsibility;
To review the
impact of teaching on
students.
Activity 10 (3’) Teacher assesses the students’ activity and tells them to write a
Homework setting story using the movement verbs from the second handout.