Authors

Name(s): Aleyna Ertoy

Saime Esma Masca
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Details
Course
English
Unit Title
Biography
Grade Level
7th Grade
Time
2 class hours
Content
Learning Outcomes [ASSURE (State Objectives)]
7th grade students will both gain an understanding about biographies and differentiate between present and
past tenses when given information about the biography integrated with the demonstration of basic past
forms of verbs with a 85% accuracy.
Instructional Materials & Media [ASSURE (Select Strategies, Technology, Media and Materials)]
Firstly, students will be presented the features of biographies and gain an idea about what a biography is by
a video created with Powtoon. Then, with the help of Piktochart, students will learn about regular and
irregular forms of past tense.

Learning-Teaching Methods [ASSURE (Select Strategies, Technology, Media and Materials)]

Teacher-centered
A tutorial video
Demonstration
Teaching Activities [ASSURE (Utilize Technology, Media, and Materials and Require Learner Participation)]
Students will do a matching activity with the certain dates about the related information in a person’s
biography.

Individual Learning Activities Matching

Group Learning Activities -

Summary
Biographies describe and discuss the life of a real person. The information given in biographies are based on
facts. Biographies tell the story in a style and tone that the reader/listener can relate to the person and
believe in their humanness. Biographies are written in Past Tense. So, what is Past Tense?
The past tense describes a past event or a state of being. For example:
I jumped in the lake.
(past event)
I was happy.
(past state of being)
The rule is simple:
If the verb is regular: verb+ed = past form of a verb
If the verb is irregular: things will get a bit complicated here.
In order to understand the “irregular verbs,” now we’re going to first read a biography. In the given text, you
need to understand the order of the events, and then match those events with dates. Then we’ll work on
irregular verbs with the help of an infographic.

Measurement & Evaluation

A fill-in-the-blanks quiz

Measurement & Assessment Activities for A fill-in-the-blanks quiz about past tense including
Individual Performance irregular forms of verbs.
Measurement & Assessment Activities for -
Group Performance
Homework (optional) -

Explanation regarding to the implementation of the plan

Firstly, students will learn what a biography by the tutorial presented with Powtoon. Then the teacher will
introduce them with the past tense and irregular forms of the verbs by using Pictochart. Lastly, the teacher
will give students a biographical text and expect them to match the related information given in the text with
dates. At the end of the lesson, the students will be given a fill-in-the-blanks quiz where they should use the
correct forms of past verbs.