New lesson plan: Wh- Questions in Past Simple

Hande Akar

Wh- Questions in Past Simple - Beginner level

Wh- Questions in Past Simple
Beginner level

Description

In this lesson, students revise asking questions in Past Simple. Then, they learn about asking Wh- questions in Past Simple.

Materials

Information Gap Activity Handout

PPT about holiday

Listening

Information Gap Activity Handout

PPT about holiday

Listening

Main Aims

To revise asking questions in Past Simple and to enable Ss to ask Wh- Questions in Past Simple

Subsidiary Aims

To provide listening for specific information in the context of holiday
To provide Ss with the opportunity of speaking for accuracy

Procedure (36-45 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (7-8 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- Write some information about yourself on the board. - Give examples first to clarify what they are going to do. - Ask them to ask questions to you by looking at the answers written on the board. - Write the question words under them. - Then, draw shapes for the question words.

Exposure (8-9 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

- They need to ask questions. - Draw conversation bubbles and some related drawings and try to make them ask questions - They ask questions and answer the questions by showing the pictures. - Write the questions in the bubbles. - After getting the questions, model first and then drill (also show where the stress is)

Clarification (8-9 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

- Finish the story and write the questions on the board to elicit the form. - Elicit the form of questions and answers. - Model how it is pronunced (What did you....?) - Use finger highlighting to show errors, contractions and to guide them to form correct sentences

Listening (2-4 minutes) • To practice listening for specific information

- Before they listen to a person talking his trip to London, give them the answers and questions. It must be mixed. - They work in pairs to match the questions with the answers. - Monitor them and after they have finished, they listen to it and they check their answers. - Check if they did it correct or not.

Controlled Practice (5-6 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice, to practice asking and answering questions in the past

- It's an information gap activity. Give each pair a copy of worksheet - Tell them they need to ask and answer the questions in order to complete the table. - Monitor them and ask questions related to the pictures they have.

Free Practice (4-5 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

- Ss ask ans answer questions to each other about their last holiday/ a place they visited. - Monitor them while they're doing the activity.

Feedback (2-4 minutes) • To give feedback in order to correct some common mistakes

- Observe the Ss carefully while they are doing the activites. - If seen a common mistake they make, try to correct it by writing on the board and asking questions. Then, show them the correct form.