Universidad Catlica de la Santsima Concepcin

English Major
Teaching Practice I
Lesson Plan # 1
PPP

Level:
Beginners/ Date:
Intermediate
October, 18th
Grade: CCE 1
Age: 18 - 19
Aim: By the end of the lesson students will be able to tell recent
anecdotes orally.

Assumed Knowledge:
Past form of verbs
Simple past tense
Past Progressive tense

Time:
14:00 - 15:00

Length:
60min

Teacher: Tatiana Neira

Student Teacher: Melissa Hernndez
Javier Muoz
Type of School: UCSC

Exponents:
I was cooking when I saw a man on the window
While she was looking under the car, she felt a cold wind on her face
Target Language:
Simple past
Subject + main verb in past simple
Past progressive

Anticipated Problems
Student will not remember the use of both tenses.

Stages

What am I going to?

Subject + was/ were + verb in present participle form

..and Solutions
Aids:
Markers
T makes a revision of
Data - projector
both tenses at the beginning of
Story- Worksheet
the lesson.
Prompts with situations

Instructions
What Im going to say

Interaction
T-Ss;Ss-Ss;etc

Time
(min)

Lead in

T introduce the topic by playing a game

called the broken telephone using
sentences that mixed past simple and
past progressive.

Ok have you ever played to the broken

telephone ?
Im going to say to one of you a phrase, a then you
are going to said what you have heard to your next
classmate, you can not ask for repetition. the last
one has to said out loud what he/she heard.

PRESENTATION

Ss are going to see a two photographs of

people going through different situations.

Now to continue Im going to show some images.

Look at this for a moment.

T- Ss
Ss- Ss

5 min.

T- Ss

15

T ask the Ss about the photographs

T Tells a short story.

Have you ever been in a situation like that? What

did you feel ?

T ask the Ss about telling anecdotes or

stories.

So now Im going to read a short story about a

friend, I want you to pay attention in this spooky
story.

T explain the different

stages and
connectors that may help them at the
moment of telling anecdotes or stories.

So do you know how to tell a story or an anecdote

to someone else in English?
There are different ways of telling an anecdote
( presentation of the stages ) this is the sequence.
Introduction
developing
finish
also there are some keywords that could help you
to connect the ideas. ( present the keywords)

PRACTICE

Practice the mixture of both tenses by

reordering an story.
Students pay
attention to connectors and keywords

Now I going to give you a story of a man who went

on a trip to Africa with his family.
You have to put in order this so the story makes

T
Ss-Ss

Ss

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that help them to complete the task.

sense,
There is one strip that has the number 1 on it, this
is the beginning of the story.
Remember that there are expression of time such
as first of all , Then or finally that could help you to
order these strips of paper.

T asks the students for repeating the

instructions.
T checks the order of the story clarifying
doubts and asks the students to read the
sentences.
Ss share what they found in the story.

When you finish this first part, one group is going

to look for simple past verbs and structure and the
other group is going to look for past progressive,
also you have to look for time expression that
appear on the story.
So who can tell me what we are going to do ?
Time is up, so let's check together the order of the
story.
-who wants to read the first sentence? ..
-who wants to continue.
-Flavia could you please read the following
sentence?
So what you have found on the story that is
interesting ? which keywords are used in this
story?

PRODUCTION

T is going to give the students differents

questions and topics so they are going to
tell different anecdotes following the
prompts.

For our following activity you are going to work in

pairs.
Im going to give you different topics and you are
going to choose one.
then you are going to answer that question by
telling a short story or anecdote related to that.
Once you and your partner finish, you are going to
change partners.

We are ready? now Who would like to tell me

about the anecdotes that you have shared?
T gives general feedback about the

Ss-Ss

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common mistakes that Ss made.

To end our lesson I would like to say that
( present the common mistakes)