LESSON PLAN

Name: Stanciu Irina-Oana

Date: January, 30th
Class: 6th (2nd year of study)
Level: elementary
No of students: 14
School: Scoala Gimnaziala nr.1 Jorasti, Galati
Lesson: revision – Past Simple of regular and irregular verbs
Textbook: English G2000 -All
Time: 50 min

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES
1.1 - to select specific information from a short message
2.1 – to give short answers
3.1 – to identify specific information of simple texts
3.2- to make short sentences

LESSON AIMS: by the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
- recognize the verbs in past tense simple;
- make the difference between regular and irregular verbs, giving their infinitive at the
same time;
- show the order of the events in a story, after putting the verbs in past tense simple;
ASSUMPTIONS: I assume my students have already learnt the form and use of past tense
simple.
ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS: My students may need help with the infinitive form of the
irregular verbs in the second exercise
MATERIALS: worksheets, glue, pieces of paper, chalk, blackboard
METHODS: conversation, reading, grammar exercises, word puzzle
INTERACTIONS: whole class, group work, T-Ss, Ss-T.
ORGANIZATIONAL MOMENT: the student on duty tells the absents; the T writes the absents
in the register, then the T checks the homework and the students correct the mistakes, if
necessary.
Timing: 5 minutes.

Activity 1:
Aims: -revise the structure of the regular and irregular verbs in past simple.
Timing: 5 minutes.
Interactions: T-Ss, whole class
Procedures: The T announces the title of the lesson and writes it on the blackboard. The teacher
asks the students to remember how Past Simple is formed. The teacher asks students if they
know what the diagram is. The teacher explains that a Venn diagram is used to compare and
contrast things. The ways that they are different go in the parts of the circles not overlapping and
the ways that they are the same go in the part of the circle that overlaps. The teacher provides to
each student a copy of a Venn diagram template. The teacher draws the diagram on the board and
asks students to write how Past Simple is form. The teacher gives examples of two verbs (regular
and irregular) watch and go and writes them in the diagram.
Activity 2:
-to make the difference between regular and irregular verbs
Timing: 9 minutes.
Interaction: T-Ss, whole class, S-T
Procedures: The T proposes the Ss to identify the regular and irregular verbs in a spider web.
The teacher gives them a list of verbs and the students have to write them under the correct
heading. The teacher checks their answers and correct them if necessary.

Activity 3:
Aims: - complete the sentences with the right verb from the brackets
Timing: 10 minutes.
Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-T.
Procedures: The teacher asks the students to solve the first exercise by completing the sentences
with the right form of the verbs in brackets – affirmative, negative and interrogative form. The
students do this task and read the exercise, correcting the mistakes, if necessary. (appendix 1)

Activity 4:
Aims: -order these sentences so as to summarize the Red Riding Hood’s story.
- to practice reading
Timing: 10 minutes.
Interaction: work group, T-Ss, Ss-T.
Procedures: The T gives the Ss envelopes containing 8 sentences written on 8 pieces of paper
representing the Red Riding Hood’s Story. The T asks the Ss to complete the blank spaces with
verbs in past tense simple. The Ss do this task. Then, the T asks the Ss to stick the 8 pieces of
paper containing the sentences on a blank sheet of paper in the right order so as to make a
summary of the story. A s from the group is chosen to read the story. T helps if necessary.

Activity 5:
Aims: -to practice past simple

Timing: 10 minutes.
Interaction: work group, T-Ss, Ss-T.
Procedures: The T gives to each group a handout with scrambled sentences. Ss have to arrange
the words in order to make sentences. At the end of the task they have to recognize the story and
choose the right answer. Ss have to write the sentences on a big sheet of paper and pin it on the
blackboard. Another s from the group is chosen to read the sentences. The other Ss correct if
necessary.

The T gives the Ss the homework. :.ex 5 from page 90

Timing: 1 minutes.
1. Write the affirmative, negative and interrogative form of the verbs in btackets.

1. She …………………………….(eat) seven apples last week.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. My little brother ……………………..(watch) TV some hours ago.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. The boys ………………..(be) ill some days ago.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4. My mother …………………….(have) her birthday on September 17.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
5. My granny …………………..(study) at Yale University in 1950.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. Put the verbs in brackets in the past simple. Order the events to write the story of RED
RIDING HOOD.

He ...........................to grandmother’s house and..............................there before Little Red Riding

Hood. (run) (arrive)

When she ............................, the wolf...............................Little Red Riding Hood, too. (arrive)
(eat)

The wolf......................where she ...................... . (find out) (go).

Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother............................sick. (be).

He ...........................the grandmother and .......................... her clothes . (eat) (put on).

Little Red Riding Hood ..............................to her grandmother’s house . (go).

On the way to her grandmother’s place she ................... a wolf. (meet)

She .......................bread, cheese and fruit in her basket. (have)

3. Read and write:

1. lived/with/She/her/ugly sisters/two
She lived with her two ugly sisters.
2. and/cooked/all day/ cleaned/She
3. invited/The prince/to the palace/the ugly sisters
4. a Fairy Godmother/her/visited/One day
5. the Fairy Godmother/asked/for help/She
6. danced/with the prince/She/at the Palace
7. married/The prince/her
8. lived/happily ever after/They
What’s the story? Read and choose.
A Sleeping beauty B Cinderella C Snow White