Description of

class
Teaching unit
5.

_______________________ primary school; Class: IX; Class profile: 25- 30 students; 14 years old;
Subject: English language; Location: English classroom; School year: 2012/2013. Teacher: Amila Islamovi,prof.
My generation - The past perfect
Past perfect and past simple

Recent work

Unit 1 Generation quiz used to-Talk about habits when you were young

Type of lesson

Presentation

Sources

OUP- English Plus 4 Students Book by Ben Wetz & Diana Pye; Workbook 4 with MultiROM and CDs; Teachers
Book
Aims and objectives To present the past perfect tense
To present new text Read about life in the 1950s
Short term
Read for general meaning and specific information
To learn about the diferrence between the past perfect and past simple
Long term
To practise using the past simple and past perfect together
To improve SS vocabulary
To establish SS will
To talk about events in the past
To encourage SS making their own conclusion
Methods
Work on text
Communicative
Grammar- translation
Class management

Individual work
Whole class
Pair work

Interaction
Teaching aids,
materials and
equipment
Procedure

T S,S,S
S, S, S
S,S- S,S
Student's Book, Workbook, Board, Chalk, Notebook, Pen,Teacher's Book, Coloured chalk, Poster-Tenses

Introduction part, main part, final part

Additional plan
1

y partIntroductor

Aims and objectives

To check SS homework
To notice common mistakes
and explain them

Main part

Main part

To revise form and use of

the past simple tense
To practice the past simple
tense using L1

Class organization procedure and

activities
T asks SS to show her their homework. If T
notices any common mistakes T draws
attention and explains them.

Warm- up
T writes 6 sentences in Bosnian on the board
and calls up different SS to come and
translate them into English. The rest class
rewrites and carefully follows work on the
board. The sentences are in the past simple
tense. T asks SS to tell her what action is the
past simple tense. How do we make the past
simple tense? To tell her positive, negative
and questions examples.

Teaching
aids
Students
notebook
Workbook
Red pen
Board
Chalk
Notebook
Pen
Board
Chalk

Possible
problems
Some SS
didnt
write their
homework

Possible
solutions
T insists
they do
that for
the next
lesson.

Some SS
didnt
study
enough.

T repeats
use and
form of
the Past
Simple.

Timing

Main part

To present the Past Perfect

To present affirmative,
question and negative form
To introduce use of the Past
Perfect

T writes the title Past Perfect on the board.

T introduces the Past Perfect in L1.
T writes:
Affirmative form
I had arrived home before 10.00.
Question form- inversion
Had I arrived home before 10.00?
Negative form
I hadnt arrived home before 10.00.
Form:
Past tense of auxiliary verb to have HAD +
PAST PARTICIPLE
III COLUMN OF THE LIST OF
IRREGULAR VERBS, V + ED FOR
REGULAR VERBS
Use:
The Past Perfect is used to express an action
in the past which happened before (past
perfect) another action in the past (the past
simple tense).
Prije nego to sam pregledala film, proitala
sam knjigu.
Before I watched the film, I have read the
book. Prvo sam proitala knjigu pa sam onda
pregledala film. Older action is in the Past
perfect.
Nakon to sam se okupala otila sam u
krevet.
After I had had a bath I went to bed.
Homework: page 9 exercise 3 & 4

Board
Chalk
Coloured
chalk
Tensesposter
Notebook
Pen (red
pen)

Some SS
dont
understan
d this
tense.

T speaks
in Bosnian
and
explains
the Past
Perfect.

10

Main part
Main part

To present new text

To read about life in the
1950s
Read for general meaning
and specific information
To improve SS vocabulary
To include large number of
SS
To learn about the
difference between the past
perfect and past simple
To practise using the past
simple and past perfect
together

T invites SS to take their SB and open them

on pages 10 and 11. T reads through the
questions from exercise 5 with the class and
makes sure that SS understand everything.
Then T calls different SS to read the text and
asks them to prepare their answers to the
questions individually. T checks SS
vocabulary.
Ss can ask and answer the questions in pairs.

SB
Board
Chalk
Notebook
Pen

T asks SS to find some sentences in the Past SB

Perfect and read them loudly. Then they do
Pen
exercise 2. Complete the sentences. Use the
Past Perfect and the Past Simple tense in
each sentence.
Some volunteers read the answers and rest of
the class checks.

None.

None.
10

None.

None.

Final part

12

To learn about the

difference between the past
perfect and past simple
To practise using the past
simple and past perfect
together

T asks SS to complete the next exercise using

the Past perfect and their own ideas.

SB

None.

None.
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