New lesson plan: Past simple tense

Yasmine Ihab

Past simple tense - 2nd (preparatory school) level

Past simple tense
2nd (preparatory school) level

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Main Aims

To provide clarification and practice of the past simple tense.

Subsidiary Aims

To provide product writing practice of a paragraph.

Procedure (34-46 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

The teacher asks the students to tell him a funny story that happened to them during the last week.

Exposure (3-5 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

The teacher starts to tell them his own story and displays it written on the board.

Highlighting (2-4 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

The teacher asks the students to highlight all the verbs that end with ed and asks them to guess why do these verbs end with ed.

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

The teacher starts to present the meaning of the past simple tense and its form and the regular and irregular verbs. Then he asks the students to give him examples using the past simple tense.

Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

The teacher provides the students with a task in which they should choose the right form of the verbs to make the sentences in the simple past tense.

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

The teacher asks the students to write a paragraph about the funny story that happened to them last week using the simple past tense. Then, they work in pairs and starts to check each others' works.