Lesson Plan

Level: Elementary Length: 90 minutes Topic:

Objectives: For students to understand and use (oral and written) past simple sentences, negatives and questions with regular verbs Revision of animal vocabulary

Activity Description TimeWarmer Taboo – ‘What animal am I?’ Teacher writes an animal on the

board. One student stands at the front of the class (back to the board) and asks the other class members yes/no questions until he/she guesses the animal.

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Lead-in Board: ‘The Rabbit and the Tortoise’. Ask ‘What was the story about? What happened?’ Elicit ideas Students in pairs – quickly discuss the story. Monitor

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Reading Hand out the story. Students scan the story and underline all the verbs. Check in pairs. Elicit and board all the verbs.

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Presentation Teacher highlights the verbs which demonstrate the four spelling rules for regular past simple verbs. Elicit/explain spelling rules.

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Controlled practice

Hand out the gap-fill grammar worksheet. In pairs, students complete the sentences with past simple regular verbs. Teacher elicits and boards the sentences

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Presentation Focus on the first sentence. Try to elicit the negative form ‘I didn’t work very hard in the garden yesterday’. Elicit/explain rule for regular past simple negative

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Controlled practice

In pairs, students change sentences 2-6 to negative sentences. Monitor, check and board.

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Presentation Focus on the first sentence again. Try to elicit the question form ‘Did you work hard in the garden yesterday?’ Elicit/explain rule for past simple question forms ‘Did………..?’

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Controlled practice

In pairs, students change sentences 2-6 to questions. Monitor, check and board.

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Freer practice

Hand out the ‘Find someone who…..’ worksheet questionnaire. Model a conversation first with a strong student. Instruct students to stand up and mingle, asking each other the questions on the questionnaire using the verb prompts. Students complete

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Extension In pairs, students report to each other what they have found out, using full positive and negative sentences.

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Homework Give students a list of infinitives and their matching past simple irregular forms. Students match.

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Next lesson Check answers to homework. Bingo.