used to
pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson, learners will have a better understanding of "used to" and will have had practice using that language and be better able to talk about past habits..
Subsidiary Aims
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To provides students with topics to practice and speak about past habits.
Procedure (53-77 minutes)
state the aim of the lesson is to speak about the life of people who lived long time ago. students look at the picture of a person in ancient times and teacher elicits the word "past". Then teacher adds more pictures to the same context. the man by a river, drinking and washing clothes, hunting for food, ... Teacher elicits some words. students might say words like, past, dirty, tapped water, modern house, hunt animals, hard life
teacher shows a time line and asks students some questions. Did people drink water from rivers in the past? Did they always drink water from rivers? students answer, yes, Then teacher marks the time table in the past. Teacher now asks another question by showing a water tap, Do people drink water from rivers now? students answer, No. Then teacher crosses "Now" on the time line. and writes on the board, "People used to drink water from rivers" Teacher circles used to and underlines drink. writes "used to + base verb" and "past habit" on the board. Again, teacher asks "did people have shampoos to wash their hair? students answer No. teacher writes on the board, " they didn't used to wash with shampoos". Then teacher writes the negative form " didn't use to + base verb" the next step is to work on pronunciation. the teacher points at the examples and reads " used to " and by gesture of hand, invites students to repeat aloud (maybe several times). first the whole class and then maybe some individual students. after that, teacher adds up words "used to drink" "people used to drink" ... and this process happens for the second sentence as well.
Teacher gives the instructions while keeping the book on her chest, pointing on practice 1 on page 91 in the book. Teacher ask students: "match part A with B and write sentences with 'used to or didn't use to''
teacher asks students to check their answers with the student next to them. Then students raise their hands and read the sentences. In case a sentence had errors, teacher would write it on the board and ask the class to find the error. (Note: considering the situation and type of the error, other correction methods such as repeating the sentence up to the problematic part and using facial or hand gestures might be applied) Teacher shows the correct sentences on the slide once students have said the correct form.
Teacher asks students to complete the second half of the sentences on page 91 part 2a about themselves.
students check their answers with their partners. then, teacher asks random students to read a sentence each.
Teacher puts students into groups of three and gives each group a dice, colorful markers, a mini board and some cards on each of which a topic keywords has been written, for example, " computers, cars, horses, houses, people, food...". Teacher gives the instruction. In each group, members throw dice in turn. Each student should pick up randomly as many cards as their lucky number on the dice shows and write one sentence using "used to" for each topic on the mini board. (Each student has got a different color marker).
Students will hang their mini boards on the walls in form of a classroom gallery. each student goes to each mini board, check other friends' sentences and if they are all correct, checks the question hung bellow each board: " Is the form used to + base verb" written correctly?" Teacher has already clarified that they only need to check this item. In case, there is an error, students should write the correct sentence on a sticky note and paste it on the mini board. Teacher will have a final look and check on the sentences.
