Start the lesson with a few questions related to weather incorporating the simple present and simple past tenses of 'to be'. Check if the students (elicit) know the simple past tense. Pre-teach some vocabulary from some of the activities in the lesson. Activate schemata via prediction (use the visuals from activity 1).

The students listen to a text and then fill in the gap-fill handout. Let them work in pairs. Go through the sentences with the students. Ask them to read out the sentences in their entirety.

Draw a table on the WB with the positive and negative forms of the simple past tense of the verb 'to be'. Have the students come to the WB and complete the forms for each pronoun. Do the same for the modal verb can. Let the students listen to the audio clip and repeat the sentences out loud. Use timeline for concept-checking.

Make the students work in pairs to ask and answer the questions in activity 1.

Have the students work solo and complete the gap-fill handout with the past of the verb 'to be' and 'can'. Once finished, have them check their answers in pairs.

The students are given a handout with a bunch of sentences. Some of the sentences have errors with regard to the simple past tense of the verb 'to be'. The students work alone and decide which sentences need to be corrected. They then write down the sentence correctly. Students are then asked to compare their work with a partner. They are handed an answer key at the end.

Have the students work in pairs to do activity 4. Have them right down their answers and question them about each other at the end of the activity.