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Lesson Plan

|Level: Elementary Length: 90 minutes Topic: |

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|Objectives: For students to understand and use (oral and written) past simple sentences, negatives and questions with regular |

|verbs |

|Revision of animal vocabulary |

|Activity |Description |Time |

|Warmer |Taboo – ‘What animal am I?’ Teacher writes an animal on the board. One student stands at the | 5 |

| |front of the class (back to the board) and asks the other class members yes/no questions until | |

| |he/she guesses the animal. | |

|Lead-in |Board: ‘The Rabbit and the Tortoise’. Ask ‘What was the story about? What happened?’ Elicit |10 |

| |ideas | |

| |Students in pairs – quickly discuss the story. Monitor | |

|Reading |Hand out the story. Students scan the story and underline all the verbs. Check in pairs. Elicit |20 |

| |and board all the verbs. | |

|Presentation |Teacher highlights the verbs which demonstrate the four spelling rules for regular past simple |30 |

| |verbs. Elicit/explain spelling rules. | |

|Controlled practice |Hand out the gap-fill grammar worksheet. In pairs, students complete the sentences with past |40 |

| |simple regular verbs. Teacher elicits and boards the sentences | |

|Presentation |Focus on the first sentence. Try to elicit the negative form ‘I didn’t work very hard in the |45 |

| |garden yesterday’. Elicit/explain rule for regular past simple negative | |

|Controlled practice |In pairs, students change sentences 2-6 to negative sentences. Monitor, check and board. |55 |

|Presentation |Focus on the first sentence again. Try to elicit the question form ‘Did you work hard in the |60 |

| |garden yesterday?’ Elicit/explain rule for past simple question forms ‘Did………..?’ | |

|Controlled practice |In pairs, students change sentences 2-6 to questions. Monitor, check and board. |70 |

|Freer practice |Hand out the ‘Find someone who…..’ worksheet questionnaire. Model a conversation first with a |80 |

| |strong student. Instruct students to stand up and mingle, asking each other the questions on the| |

| |questionnaire using the verb prompts. Students complete | |

|Extension |In pairs, students report to each other what they have found out, using full positive and |85 |

| |negative sentences. | |

|Homework |Give students a list of infinitives and their matching past simple irregular forms. Students |90 |

| |match. | |

|Next lesson |Check answers to homework. Bingo. | |

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