Lesson Plan

Teacher: Cocosila
Valentina Roxana

Level: Intermediate
Grade:9th A, 9th B
Topic: Present Perfect Tense

Students’ Prior Knowledge:

Students have learned the Simple Past Tense and briefly about Present Perfect Tense taught in Grammar in Use - Unit 15.
Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
General: a. consolidate the form and function of Present Perfect Tense
b. distinguish the difference between Present Perfect Tense and Simple Past Tense
c. use appropriate adverbs (ever, yet, for, since, etc.) (last night, yesterday, in 1999, etc.) together with Present Perfect Tense and Simple Past Tense
when forming questions and statements
Specific:
Language Use: engage in speaking activity to use Present Perfect Tense and Simple Past Tense grammatically.
Language Forms: Present Perfect Tense
a. Has/Have + Past Participle (e.g. “buy”  “has/have bought”)

Additional Language skills: information processing and organizing ideas (i.e. using a table) in speaking

Learner activities / Learning tasks:

Speaking: conducting small-talk and conversational exchange about daily-life experience

Materials and Teaching Aids: Students’ book

Instructional Sequence:

Content Classroom
Time Procedures Aims Teaching Aids
Stage Organization
5 min 1. Show news articles A and B, give  To familiarise students Teacher 
Class Visualizer, Sample
instructions on completing the task. with the led-in activity Article,
2. Divide students into groups of 4 and  To make students Student 
Student Newspaper
distribute the articles – one for each cooperate and complete Articles
group. the task faster
1. Set a time limit for the task.  To strictly control the
2. Walk around to monitor progress and time spent on the led-in
provide assistance to weaker pairs. activity
 To give extra attention to Teacher  Groups /
Revision &
weaker students Individual student
Led-in
3 min 1. Stop the activity when time is up.  To prepare for the Teacher  Class Visualizer,
Regain students’ attention. presentation stage Newspaper
2. Pick students to list a few pasts (e.g.  To recognize Students’ Teacher 
Groups Articles
“went”) and Has/Have + past effort
participles (e.g. “Have written”) from
the 2 articles.
3. Put Teacher’s versions on the
visualizer.