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CELTA - TP7 - Grammar - Past simple passive
Pre-Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students learn how to form and when to use the past simple passive. They will apply it in the context of historical events

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of past simple passive in the context of the narration of historical events

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide process writing practice of a report in the context of the invention of some everyday modern objects

Procedure

Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

T shares screen and shows a form that students need to fill out and sends them in pairs to BoR to fill it out. T says: - Are you good at identifying fake news? Well, now you have an opportunity to prove it. - Please go into BoR in pairs and help each other respond the questions on this form. - You have 4 minutes. T pastes link into chat - Please open the forms now, before I send you to BoR. - Everyone has it? - ICQ: How long are you going to BoR for? [4 min] - Here we go. T sends students to BoR in pairs

Text work: Listening task (8-10 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language: Past simple passive

T plays the audio and asks Ss to verify the veracity of their guesses from the prior form. T says: - Let's now listen and verify if you answered the questions correctly: > AFTER playback finishes, T asks students which question was the trickiest Ss talk in OC about thier experiences filling out the form. - Let's listen one more time, but this time let's pay attention to the form of the sentences. - What tense or structure do you notice? - Let's listen.

Language perparation: (2-4 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language: Past simple passive

T uses inductive questions to elicit the type and tense of the sentences: . - What tense or structure did you notice? - Was the subject at the beginning of the sentences? - Were the sentences in the past, present or future? T models one sentence in present simple passive: - The moon is made from the same chemical elements as the Earth. - Who made the moon?

Clarification: T analyses passive voice structure on the Jamboard and and provides form to fill in. (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

Form contains 3 questions about Meaning, 3 about Form and 3 about pronunciation

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

T clarifies any doubts with CCQs: - Do we use passive voice to narrate soccer? No? Is it because it is important to know WHO the doer is or do we use active voice for that? - Do we use simple past passive to narrate the exact timing of events when we know it was well defined or do we use past perfect passive for that? - What verb do we use in front of the past participle of the main action verb? To get, to become? - If we decide to mention the doer: What preposition do we use? At or by?

Free Practice: Talk about fake news in past simple passive (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

T asks students to talk about fake news and corrects their mistakes. T provides DEC

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