Sample Lesson Plan

Plan for Listening Demonstration Lesson

On Review of Past Simple vs. Past Progressive verbs
Presented by Larissa Grahl in Ling 671/SLaT 611

Objectives Materials
Class members will… PowerPoint Presentation
• Successfully distinguish (perceive) verbs in Handouts
the Past Simple and Past Progressive in Whiteboard and marker
English Clicker
• Successfully produce these verbs in English.

0:00- Warm-up/Introduction
0:01
• Remind students of today’s review topic: verbs in the Past Simple vs. verbs in
the Past Progressive in English (show them the comic).

0:01- Teaching/Learning Activities (Present, Practice, Evaluate)

0:06
• Show the timeline for the two verb tenses on the PowerPoint.
Speaking practice: Sentence creation [1 min.]
• Show the next slide (#4) and ask students to create a sentence with both verb
tenses. Ask for some other possible examples and write them on the board.
Listening practice: Song (Handout) [5 min.]
• Predicting: show students the picture of the Hotel California and ask them what
they think the song is about.
• Students complete the gaps in the song with the verbs either in the Past Simple
or Past Progressive.
• Show the answers on the slide.
0:06- Listening practice: Verb Tense Bingo (Handout) [3 min.]
0:09
• Students need to choose the verbs from the song and write them in their bingo
cards in either the Past Simple or Past Continuous. The teacher will read some
sentences and if their verbs fit in the sentence, they can mark them in their bingo
cards. The first students to get Bingo wins!
• Give students the sentences I read (handout) and let them check their answers.

0:09- Summary/Conclusion
0:10
• Discussion [Evaluate]: talk to students about the importance of knowing how to
use verbs in the Past Simple or Past Progressive and, most importantly, how their
listening perception of them can change the meaning of the sentence, that is, each
verb tense conveys a different message.
Part Linguistic and Instructional Principles Demonstrated
of Speaking practice before perception (pre-listening activity).
plan- Listening for specific information (song - verbs).
ning Listening gap fill exercise (bingo - verbs).
Importance that songs can have on the students’ lives when learning the language.
Contextualization.
Predicting before listening.
Using comics to explain/review the verb tenses.
Post-listening activity: evaluation, discussion.
Present, Practice and Production: presentation with lots of repetition, practice in
different skills (speaking, writing, and listening), and production of sounds with lots of
repetition.
Interaction (teacher-student, student-student, student-materials).
Materials that students can take home and continue practicing.