New lesson plan: Past continuous

Amirhoseinakbari

Past continuous - Preintermediate level

Past continuous
Preintermediate level

Description

In this lesson,students are going to learn how to use past continuous and combination of past simple and past continuous in the contexts of everyday activities.After this lessons students are supposed to utilitise past continuous to explain what they did in the past in progressive.Then,the lesson will be finished by asking students to make sentences of past continuous about their everyday actions in the past.

Materials

American english file 2 SB and board google photos

American english file 2 SB and board google photos

Main Aims

To provide clarification of Past continuous in the context of Everyday activities

Subsidiary Aims

To provide accuracy speaking practice in a Practice in the conversation in the context of Everyday actions

Procedure (15-23 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (1-2 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

In this stage ,I will show some old pictures about some actions which are in progression and ask students whether images are about past or present to help them be ready for next steps

Highlighting (2-3 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

In this stage i will write some examples of past continuous combined with past simple on the board to attract students' attention

Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

I will clarify the meaning of past continuous and combination of simple past and past continuous by outlining the timeline and ask some CCQs (are the sentences about past or present?Moreover,i will explain the difference between past continuous and simple past which past simple is a completed action in the past and past continuous is an action in progress at a specific moment.Next,i will write the structure related to past continuous : subject+ was/were+ verb+ing+ complement.Finally,i will mention briefly some irregular verbs and show their past and gerund forms and show the manner of pronuncing of them ,to name but a few,said,thought,taught,bought,flew(flying), swam(swimming),lied(lying),lay(lying),fought(fighting) .At last ,in sum,i will show how to make questions with past cantinuous.

Controlled Practice (2-4 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

The students are going to do exercises 2B page 132 in the grammar bank in 2-4 minutes and then I will correct answers if needed.

Free Practice (2-4 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

I will ask students to have a conversation in pair about activities which they had in one of the their journeys .(students will receive at least 2minutes to do the task)