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Unit 12 Lesson 2
Grade 2 level

Description

Students will be able to use the verb to be in the past tense with adjectives and third person structures.

Materials

Abc Pair Work Placemat
Abc Student Pictures
Abc Flashcards
Abc Power Point Presentation

Main Aims

  • Students will be able to describe things in the past with basic adjectives.

Subsidiary Aims

  • Review Vocabulary: Dirty, Clean, Kind, Naughty, Clever, Silly, Little, Scary, Big
  • He/ She/ It was
  • Grammar: I was...

Procedure

Warm Up Dance (2-4 minutes) • To get students focused and ready to learn

Play a video to engage students and get them to dance.

Exposure (7-9 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

Review I was with the vocab. Play a short spinner game. Show pictures of the teacher. Talk about the pictures with I was.

Highlighting (3-5 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

Ask if the students caught the structure the teacher was saying with wasn't. Play a short video that has a child talking about himself in the past. (Recording of the teacher's child) Ask students questions on the video. Introduce wasn't first then the he/she/it structure.

Controlled Practice (6-8 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Continue with Third person structures. Play A Bad Luck Billy style game. Students are introduced to the picture and a strucure which they may guess at first. Then they take turns to say the structure. After a preset time that the students are unaware of a bomb will sound and the student whose turn it was does not get a star while the other 2 do.

Semi-Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check further and prepare students for free practice

Three students will play at a time. The students will need to look at the picture and choose one of two structures that appears on the board. The first to do so is the winner.

Free Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

Pair Work Students will play in pairs and they will make structures about the other person's pictures in third person. He/she was\wasn't...

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