Past Simple 6h5cc

LESSON PLAN SCHOOL – SCOALA GIMNAZIALA NICULESTI GRADE – 6th LEVEL – elementary TEACHER – SOCELEANU AMALIA-IONELA LESSON –Simple Past TYPE OF LESSON – acquiring new knowledge DATE – THE 23rd OF NOVEMBER 2017 TIME – 50 minutes COMPETENCES 2.3. Comunicarea interactivă într-un schimb simplu de informatii 3. Receptarea mesajelor scrise

AIMS At the end of the lesson students will be able to: 1. learn the Past Tense Simple formation and rules; 2. identify past structures in different statements; 3. use past simple structures; 4. talk about past events; SKILLS · speaking · reading TECHNIQUES · observation · explanation · pair work RESOURCES - CD- player · blackboard · notebooks ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS Students might - not understand all the words, so T will explain them both in English and Romanian.

ACTIVITIES WARM UP AIM INTERACTION PROCEDURE

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*creating a pleasant atmosphere for the English class; *helping students feel relaxed. *T – Ss *Ss - T *T asks Ss How are you today? / Is anybody absent? / Are you ready to start the English class?; *Ss answer T’s questions; *1 minute

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TRANSITION TO THE NEW TOPIC AIDS AIM INTERACTION PROCEDURE

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SS’ homework *checking if there were any problems with their homework. *Ss – Ss *Ss – T *T asks Ss what their homework was; *Ss read their homework and correct it as a whole class. They had to do some presentations of their village. *5 minutes

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1. LEAD IN ( pre-reading/prespeaking/pre-writing/pre-listening) AIDS AIM COMPETENCES INTERACTION PROCEDURE

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*blackboard *making Ss interested in the new lesson *T – Ss *She writes a sentence on the blackboard and asks Ss to underline the verb. T asks Ss what is strange about the verb. Ss will say that it has a strange form. *T announces that today’s lesson is about Past Tense Simple – regular verbs; *T writes the title of the lesson on the blackboard; *3minutes

B. *blackboard *learning the Past Simple formation and rules T-Ss *T writes on the blackboard: “Past Tense Simple is used to talk about an action which started and finished in the past. It is formed: AFFIRMATIVE: S+ VERB+ -ED e.g.: I worked NEGATIVE: S+ DID+ NOT+ VERB e.g.: I DID NOT WORK (she explains them that in the negative form the verb does not take the –ed termination) INTERROGATIVE: DID+ S+VERB” e.g.: Did I work?” She explains and writes on the blackboard the main uses of Past Tense Simple: “The Past Tense Simple is used: 1. to talk about a past action- we know the precise time: last week, last month, in 1990 etc. e.g.: I visited her last week.

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2. To talk about an action that was common in the past, but now it is not e.g.: I cooked every evening- I do not do this anymore” SPELLING RULES: - The final consonant of the verb is doubled when the preceding vowel is short and stressed: stop- stopped, travel- travelled; - The final-y disappears when it is preceded by a consonant, and the verb takes –ied termination; e.g.: study- studied - The verbs finished in –e only take – d termination e.g.: move-moved *15 minutes

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*textbooks and blackboard *practice *Ss - Ss *Ss – T *T writes on the blackboard the following verbs: cry, die, pull, follow, point, look, stop, lift, recover, thank, smile, start, recognise. She asks them to write these verbs in the past simple forms. *5 minutes Practice 2 *textbook, CD-player * using Past Simple structures

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*T-Ss Ss-Ss *Ss – T *T asks Ss to look at page 42. She asks them what they can see in the image. She asks them to work in pairs, listen to the recording and fill in the gaps with the words they hear in the recording. She gives them a clue: the missing words are those on the blackboard. *10 minutes

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*blackboard, notebooks

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*learning the Past Simple form of the verb “to be”

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*T-Ss *T writes on the blackboard the Past Tense Simple of the verb TO BE, and Ss write on their notebooks: AFFIRMATIVE I WAS 3

YOU WERE HE/SHE/IT WAS WE WERE YOU WERE THEY WERE NEGATIVE I WAS NOT(WASN’T) YOU WERE NOT(WEREN’T) HE/SHE/IT WAS NOT(WASN’T) WE WERE NOT (WEREN’T) YOU WERE NOT THEY WERE NOT INTERROGATIVE WAS I? WERE YOU? WAS HE/SHE/IT? WERE WE? WERE YOU? WERE THEY?

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PRODUCTION/ FEED-BACK (postreading/postspeaking/postwriting/postlistening) AIDS AIM COMPETENCES INTERACTION PROCEDURE

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Emotional / Aims’ checklist AIMS INTERACTION PROCEDURE ESTIMATED TIME

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*BLACKBOARD * talking about past events *T – Ss Ss- T *T asks Ss to make up 3 sentences in the Past Tense Simple, based on their own actions in the past, using the verb TO BE. As Ss tell, she writes the sentences on the blackboard, and asks Ss to underline the forms of TO BE. *3minutes

*getting feed-back from the Ss *Ss - T *T asks Ss to say a colour which best describes their emotional state at the end of the English class. *1 minute

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Asg Homework AIM *using Past Simple structures INTERACTION *T - Ss PROCEDURE *T writes the homework on the blackboard – “Make up 5 sentences using past tense forms and newly acquired vocabulary in the story “ The Fox and The Crow” ESTIMATED TIME *1 minute

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