LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Chiroiu Gina-Geta

Form: 6th grade

Topic: Present Perfect Simple versus Past Simple

Time: 50

Teaching aims: -to enable students to use the Present Perfect Simple and Past Simple when its
needed
-to develop students reading abilities
-to enable students to talk about past events using one of these tenses

Learning aims: -the students will be able to expose coherently their opinions
- the students will be able to talk about present events using correctly the tenses
-the students will be able to use correctly the forms of the Present Perfect Simple
and Past Simple

Exponents: Grammatical structures: Present Simple (to have), Present Perfect Simple, Past
Simple

Anticipated problems: The students usually omit the form has when using the verb in the
Present Tense Simple, 3rd person, sg. The students build the second and third form of some
irregular verbs by adding the particle -ed as they do with the regular verbs.

Skills: Listening, Speaking, Writing, Reading.

Interaction: Teacher-Students
Student-Student

Aids: textbook, exercises

Class room management: The room is comfortable with funny pictures on the walls.

Voice: Natural style

Attitude: The teacher encourages the students to answer to her questions, keeping eye contact
when necessary

Evaluation: initial- warm-up

continue- activities
final- written

Procedure
Stages/Timin
g

Teachers activity

The teacher greets the students.

Students activity

The students greet the teacher.

Warm-up
5

Skills

Speaking
The teacher tells to his students to read The students read their homework.
their homework.

T-Ss
IW

Initial practice
20

Secondary
Practice

Taking some sentences as example,

The students write the forms.
the students must remember and write
on the blackboard the affirmative,
negative and interrogative forms of the
Present Perfect Simple and Past
Simple.
The students remember the usage of
After remembering the forms the
each present tense.
students must remember from the
anterior lesson the usage of each tense.
The students have to tell some
adverbs used with each tense.

The students make two differing lists

with adverbs.

The teacher asks them to make pairs

and to solve exercise 1, page 110.

The students solve the exercise.

Speaking
Ss-Ss
IW

Writing
Speaking

T-Ss
Ss-Ss
PW
Further
practice
13

The teacher gives to the students

worksheets to solve together. The
worksheets include exercises with
both tenses.

The students solve the exercises.

Reading
Writing
T-Ss
PW

Feedback
Evaluation
3

The Teacher asks the students: Have

you enjoyed the topic for today?
Why/why not?

The students answer and tell their

opinion.

Speaking

IW

The teacher tells the students the most

frequent mistakes that he noticed
during the course.

Listening

Homework
2

The Teacher to write a composition

using verbs at both Present Perfect
Simple and Past Simple describing a
funny memory from their early
childhood.

Students note their homework.

Writing
IW