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School: Berislveti Secondary School

Teacher: Melania Anghelu


Date: 7th March 2016
Form: 6th grade
Level of study: beginners, 2nd year of study
Textbook: Snapshot Elementary
Lesson: Simple past of the verb to be
Type of lesson: Teaching and learning
Time: 50 min.
Teaching methods:
the audio-lingual approach
the audio-visual approach
the communicative approach
the natural approach
Teaching techniques:
conversation
repetition
exercise
brainstorming
observation
explanation
Class organisation: (individual/pair/group work)
Materials: blackboard, pictures, worksheets, CD, coloured sheets
Anticipated problems: The Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens, they will be translated into
Romanian.
Aims:
-to reactivate the previously taught material;

-to learn and practise the simple past of the verb to be;
-to recognize the usage of the simple past by reffering to the adverbs of definite time;
-to encourage students to learn the English language through dialogues, games, conversation;
-to develop reading, speaking, writing, listening skills;

Objectives:
a) cognitive:
to reinforce vocabulary and grammar structures
to learn and improve word pronunciation
to communicate efficiently using the target language
to pronounce correctly
b) affective:
to stimulate students imagination
to make the students confident in the ability to use the language
to use English while playing
to have fun
Stages of the lesson
I.

Warm-up

Teachers activity

Teacher
greets
the
students and asks for
absentees
II.
Checking
Teacher asks students to
homework
and present their homework.
previous knowledge
Teacher checks the
previous
knowledge
(The past simple of
regular verbs)

Students activity
Students answer

Interaction
lockstep

Students read their T-Ss


homework
Students answer the
questions

Skill

Time

Purpose

speaking

reading

- to prepare the
students
for
the
lesson
- to check students
understanding of the
previous lesson and
correct
possible
mistakes

III.
Introducing
new material
a) Pre-teaching

Teacher announces the Students listen


objectives.
Today we are going to:

T-Ss

Learn the past


simple forms of
the verb to be
Practice
its
affirmative,
negative
and
interrogative
forms.
lockstep
Learn new words
related
to
holidays.
Teacher writes on the
blackboard the title of
the lesson and asks the Students write the
students to do the same title of the lesson on T-Ss
their notebooks
in their notebooks.

listening

to
stimulate
students imagination
- to create interest in
the topic of the tenses

b) Activity 1
introduction of vocabulary

Teacher
gives
the
students
worksheets.
(Annex 1, 2, 3, 4)
Teacher shows to the
class pictures; presents
new information; writes
sentences on blackboard
Past simple used to
describe activities in the
past. Where was he last

Students listen and T-Ss


answer the questions.
Students write the
sentences in their
notebooks

listening
writing

listening
speaking
writing

- to reactivate and
learn vocabulary
- to learn and
improve
word
pronunciation
- to practice the past
simple of be

week/last weekend/few
weeks ago?
Teacher
asks
the
students if they can
think of other places.

c) Activity 2
practice

Students give some


examples
Students look at the
picture, the spelling T-Ss
of the words and they
match them

Teacher encourages the


students to use the new
T-Ss
vocabulary in sentences.
Ss-Ss
Teacher writes on the
PW
board questions and
invites students to ask Students check them
her
and write the correct
sentences on their
notebooks
T-Ss

d) Activity 3

listening
speaking

writing

- to exercise writing
- to check and
consolidate grammar
and understanding the
meaning of the words

writing
speaking

Teacher
asks
the
students to choose the
correct word (exercise
2) in order to complete
the sentences and then
to read them aloud.
Students complete the
Teacher
oversees sentences
students activity
Students listen to her

to
communicate
efficiently using their
language
3
speaking

e) Activity 4
(revision)

Teacher
asks
the
students to match the
words from exercise 3 in
order to revise the
negative form of Present
tense Simple

reading
Students obey the T-Ss
commands given by
the teacher (they look
at the picture and

speaking
5

to
grammar

reinforce

match
given)

the

words

f) Activity 5
Teacher
asks
the
students to complete the
sentences from exercise
4 (see Annex 3) with
the correct negative
form of Present Simple

Students complete the T-Ss


sentences, recognize
the negative form of
the Present Tense
Simple

Students look at the


Teacher
asks
the picture and then ask
students to look at and answer the
Tonys
room
from questions
exercise 5 and then ask
and answer questions
about his habits and
hobbies, as in the
example (see Annex 3)

IV.

Feed-back

V.

Homework

Teacher
asks
the
students to put the verbs
in brackets in the correct
form
Teacher
asks
the
students to make up
sentences using Present

Students complete the


sentences with the
correct form of the
verb

speaking
writing

- to recognize the
negative form of the
Present Tense Simple
and to use it correctly

listening
speaking
writing

lockstep

listening
writing
listening
speaking
writing

- to let students know


how
well
they
performed

Tense Simple

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