LESSON PLAN

Teacher:

Form: 8th grade

Topic: Past Simple and Present Perfect Simple

Time: 50

Teaching aims: -to enable students to use the Past Tense Simple and Present Perfect Simple
-to develop students abilities to make a difference in using these two tenses.
-to enable students to talk about past events using a proper tense

Learning aims: -the students will be able to expose coherently their opinions
- the students will be able to talk about past events
-the students will be able to use correctly the forms of the these two tenses

Exponents: Grammatical structures: Present Tense Simple, Present Tense Continuous

Anticipated problems: The students usually omit the ending s/-es when using the verb in the
Present Tense Simple, 3rd person, sg. (*Ann play tennis.). Some students dont make distinction
between the regular and irregular verbs needed for the correct past form of the verb.

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

Which tense are used in these

sentences:

The students note the sentences. They

recognize the tenses.

20

Speaking
Ss-Ss

1.At lunchtime today we arrived at

Pokhara.
2.Weve met lots of children.

IW
The students write them in their
notebooks.

3.I didnt like the sandwiches very

much.
They make rules.
4. Ive never been on a trip like this.
Identify the tenses.
The teacher writes on the blackboard
the affirmative, negative and
interrogative forms of the verb to
work as an example.
Try to make rules.
Secondary
Practice
7

They must list each time expression

under the correct tense heading: two
years ago, just, in 1997, never, last
month, ever, yesterday, etc.

The students listen and then write what

their teacher asked them to.

Writing
Speaking

T-Ss
IW
Further
practice

They must do solve exercise 5 (b),

page 16.

The students take notes and then solve

the exercise.

Listening
Writing

13
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 asks students to do as

homework exercise 7, page 16.

Students note their homework.

Writing
IW