Past Simple Lesson
Pre intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson, Students will better be able to use regular and irregular past simple verbs to talk about past personal experiences,
Subsidiary Aims
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To practice the pronunciation of the past tense '-ed' endings (/t/, /d/, /ɪd/).
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To use the past simple form in real life conversations
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To enable students to discover and form regular and irregular past simple verbs in the affirmative
Procedure (37-49 minutes)
The Teacher makes a small feeling check-in under the question of "how was your week?" to encourage students to elicit the connection between feelings and past experiences.
The Teacher shares the student's feelings from the previous warm up through classifying them into timeline columns in order to help them discover the grammar of the session though elicitation.
The Teacher confirms the student's understanding through asking indirect CCQs related to a small exercise within the road map book such as Do you still have the same feeling since last week? (Expected answer: NO), Did the actions in the previous exercise still happening or are they completed? (Expected answer: Completed).
The teacher highlights two sentences in the past simple to give students the ability to form the regular and irregular past verbs and know their components though a group activity which encourage students to talk and discuss it in details.
The teacher clarifies the three different sounds of ed (/t/, /d/, and /ɪd/) at the end of the past verbs through modeling and drilling each sounds individually for students and ask them to practice some words actively then asks them to answer the pronunciation exercise in pairs.
The teacher divides the students individually to answer a text based on the past grammar rule to check their understanding and accuracy.
The teacher divides students in pairs and assigns them to express their own personal feelings in the past, using some certain emotions such as nervous, worried, happy and excited as a guideline to let them engage into real conversations with their partners.
