LESSON PLAN

School: Colegiul Tehnic Alesandru Papiu Ilarian, Zalau

Teacher: Hossu Cristina
Date: March 28th 2008
Time: 50
Form: IX D
Level: E1
No. of Students: 30
Text Book: Enterprise 2
Unit 8: A Brush with Danger
Topic: Past Perfect
Aims:

To introduce a new grammatical structure- past perfect

To discuss about prior events/ actions

Skill focus: Writing, Listening, speaking

Teaching techniques:
Materials:

Pair work, grammatical drills

Students book, CD ( from real grammar-intermediate)

Handouts

Anticipated Problems:
- students may not understand the use of the past perfect
Solutions to problems:
- teacher should explain by giving as many examples as necessary

Development of the lesson

Presentation
In which the teacher introduces the new structure- past perfect
Teacher tells students that they are going to listen and read the story of a woman. They
have to pay attention to the sequence of events. Teacher gives students handouts so that
they can read as well. Students listen.
Interaction: individual work
Aim: - listening for gist
- to introduce the structure in context, without the students being aware of it
After listening teacher draws on the Bb. the following scheme:
_______________________________________________________________________
Past perfect

Past Tense

Teacher groups the students in pairs and asks them to read the text previously listened to
and put the events in the right column on the bb.
Students work.
Interaction: student-student, teacher-students
Aim: to make students aware of the differences that exist between the two tenses before
introducing the rule.
After that the teacher elicits the form of past perfect as well as when it is used.
Interaction: students-teacher
Aim: to give the exact rule of the structure
15 minutes
Practice
In order to insure the understanding of the newly acquired grammatical structures, the
teacher instructs the students to do some fixed drills. Students do ex 10 p 56
10 minutes
Production
Teacher separates the class in groups of 3 and gives them the following task: Imagine
that you are a student at the university and that you didnt go home in a long time. When
you arrive home you see a lot of changes in the house. Make sentences presenting those
changes. For example: Mum had thrown out the furniture in the living room.
Interaction: students-students
Aim: to practice the structure in an open exercise
15 minutes
Evaluation
Students read the sentences. Teacher checks and makes the necessary corrections.
10 minutes

I. Answer the questions:

1. How old was Amelia when she came to Canada?
2. What did she do for a living?
3. How many children did she have?
4. Who died in a road accident?
5. Until what age did she work?
II. Fill in the gaps with past tense and past perfect:
1. He____________(discover)to his horror that he _____________(swallow)a pin.
2. After they ______________(return)from the trip
they________________(begin)studying.
3. My father____________(be) worried about me before he
_______________(hear)that I was safe and sound.
4. The price______________(be)much bigger than I ______________(expect)at first.
5. The grass______________(be)wet because it _________________(rain)a lot at
night.
6. When he ________________(arrive)on the battle field he
_________________(see)that his army_______________(be) defeated and many
soldiers were dead.
7. After Will ____________(build)the tower , people_______________(be )very
happy.
8. I_______________(be)so hungry because I _________________(not eat)anything
at breakfast.
9. When Queen Victoria______________(die)in 1901, she_____________(reign)for
over sixty years.
10. When I ________________(arrive)at home I ______________(see)the door
______________(be)open and I _______________(understand)that
someone_______________(break into).
11. She ______________(not have)the courage to talk to me because
she________________(lie)to me a long time ago.
12. Finally we ______________(discover)that we _________________( take)the
wrong way.
13. She________ ____(know)the lesson as she ____________________(repeat)it
several times.
14. The teacher __________________(refuse)to admit that
he___________________(make)a mistake.