LESSON PLAN

TEACHER:
LEVEL OF STUDENTS: INTERMEDIATE
CLASS: a IX a A
SUBJECT: ENGLISH
TOPIC OF THE LESSON: NARRATIVE TENSES
TIME: 50 MIN
COURSEBOOK: GOING FOR GOLD
INTERMEDIATE, PEARSON LONGMAN

OBJECTIVES OF THE LESSON:

1. to revise past simple, past continuous and past perfect as used in story telling;
2. to consolidate students knowledge of the values of the narrative tenses;
3. to extend students knowledge of question forms in narrative tenses;
4. to hear examples of the target language in context and give practice in listening for
specific information and retelling a story;
5. to practice story telling using the past tenses.
MATERIALS:handouts, coursebook, pictures.
ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS:
Ss might be tempted to speak in mother tongue;
Ss might be shy and unwilling to participate actively throughout the lesson.

Stage
1. Check
homework

Aim
Encouraging Ss
to develop selfdiscipline in
taking
responsibility for
their own
learning and
organisation;

Procedure
T asks the Ss to read their homework; corrects if
necessary

Interaction Time
S-T
5`

2. Lead in

- to consolidate
students
knowledge of the
values of
narrative tenses;

T asks students to scan the paragraph, identify the

narrative tenses, read the examples out and match
each tense to its value(s).

T-S
S-T

3. Controlled
Practice

- to revise past
simple, past
continuous and
past perfect as
used in story
telling;

Activity one: Ss are asked to work in pair,

complete part one of the story choosing between
the different narrative tenses they are given,
discuss their answers.
Activity two: Ss are asked to continue the story
filling in with a suitable narrative tense.
Activity three: Ss are encouraged to use the
prompts to ask and answer questions to describe
experience.
Activity four: Ss are asked to listen to a story, put
the pictures in the correct order and retell the story
in their own words.

PW

- to extend and
consolidate
students
knowledge of
question forms in
narrative tenses;

T-S
S-S

10`

25`

GW

- to hear
examples of the
target language in
context and give
practice in
listening for
specific
information and
retelling a story;
- to practise story
telling using the
three past tenses;
4. Feed-back

Ss are asked to discuss their classmates stories.

5. Homework

As homework Ss are asked to create an end to the

story from activities one and two, using a range of
narrative tenses. They should write at least eight
more sentences and imagine how:
- the two characters were rescued from the
sea;
- Isabelle felt about Oliver afterwards;
- his father reacted when he saw the state of
the car.