Lesson plan

Teachers name: Olaru Mihaela

School:coala Gimnaziala Zamostea
Date: 21.10.2016
Book: Smart
Grade: 6th grade
Level: Pre-intermediate
Number of students: 20
Unit: Readers make leaders
Lesson: Mysteries
Time allowed: 50 minutes
Type of lesson: grammar practice-past continuous
Approach: communicative
Aims:
To give students practice in the use of past continuous;
To provide opportunities for the practice of past continuous(in speaking, reading, writing);
To create the appropriate atmosphere for lowering anxiety;
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
Use the past continuous tense appropriately;
Solve activities related to the grammar topic;

 Construct sentences of their own, using the past continuous ;

Materials used: worksheets, blackboard, notebooks, textbooks;
Skills: integrated skills;
Types of interaction:

Teacher-whole class
Teacher- Student
Student- Student
Student-Teacher

Class management:
whole class
individually
group work activity

PROCEDURE

Nr. Stages
crt.

Teacher`s activity

Students` activity

Skills

1.

T. greets students and check

homework.
T. begins the new lesson with some
introductory conversation.
The T. asks the students what they
usually do late at night, and lead in to
the past continuous: I always go to
bed at 11pm. So, last night at 11:30 I
was sleeping. The T. writes the last
statement on the blackboard.
T. announces the new lesson and the
objectives.

Students answer and check their

homework.

Speaking
Writing

2.

Warm up

PresentationIntroduction of
Past Continuous

The T. asks the students to write their

typical schedule on the board with their
usual everyday activities. The T. asks the
students to give examples of what they
were doing exactly at a certain time
yesterday: At 1pm, I was giving a class,
according to the model. The teacher asks
the students to use the same daily
schedule of activities and make negative
statements. A model sentence is written
on the blackboard. Then, the teacher
introduces the interrogative form of the
Past Continuous by asking them
questions about their past activities.

Interaction

Time

T-S
S-T

10`

T-S

20

Students will answer the teachers

questions.

Students write down in their notebooks.

Students will participate in the

development of the lesson by
answering questions, by supplying
correct answers and writing the
essential information on their
notebooks.

Speaking
Writing

Again, a model sentence is written on the

blackboard. The T encourages them to
ask different types of questions in
different singular and plural persons. The
three forms of the tense are written on the
blackboard and explained.

4.

7.

Grammar practice

Evaluation and
homework
assignment

T. asks the students to solve exercises Students will work in pairs to solve
with the past continuous tense from a those exercises.
worksheet.
The students are then supposed to
work in pairs and ask each other about
their past activities, using the structure
already taught.
Teacher will evaluate their activity
based on the participation in the
classroom.
T. gives homework ex II.A, p.25.

Students will evaluate themselves and

will also evaluate their colleagues.

Reading
Writing
Speaking

T-S
S-T

15

T-S
S-T

T-S
S-T