LESSON PLAN

Date: Tuesday, 24th April 2018

Subject: English
Grade: 4th
No. of students: 22
Time: 50 minutes
Topic: ‘The Fairy Garden’
Type of lesson: learning & consolidation
‘Past Tense Simple - Regular Verbs’
Textbook: Fairyland 4
Aims of lesson:
 to help pupils to move from passive learning to active learning
 to find better ways of engaging the students in the learning process.

Objectives:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to
- use the new vocabulary in productions of their own
- develop listening and speaking skills (when referring to actions in the past)
- use Past Tense of regular verbs in exercises
- understand the oral and visual messages;
- develop grammar and communicative sub-skills
Materials: Textbook; worksheets, handouts, board, sheets of paper, video projector,
Skills involved: writing, reading, speaking, listening
Interaction: pair-work, group-work, individual work
 PROCEDURE

STAGES OF TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY TIMING REMARKS

THE LESSON

1 Warm-up / T greets the students, asks who is absent and Ss answer the teacher’s question and show
5’
Homework checks the homework. their homework to be corrected.
checking
2. Lead-in The teacher divides the class into 9 groups of The students have to answer the question: The students’
What did he /she do? (They are given a list
Ice-breaker four and asks each group to choose a leader (the answers are
of 25 past tense regular verbs) Eg.: He played 10’
game: What did one who is going to mime an activity). She the guitar.) expected to
Ss are allowed to make three guesses. If they
he /she do? prepares a set of cards with regular verbs and asks contain
produce the correct sentence
each leader to pick up a card in order to mime a they are given a sticker. mistakes
certain action and write it under the correct concerning
heading [-d], [-t] or [-id]. -ed ending
pronunciation
Revising She asks the students to work in pairs and match The students match the words with the 8’
the words (king, queen, castle, ogre, princess,
vocabulary picture. (pair work)
tower, gold, knight, dragon, mountain, ocean
cave) with the pictures.
 T plays the video Watch the story. Circle true or false for these
http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/short
sentences. (pair work)
-stories/the-princess-and-the-dragon

3 Practising past The teacher asks the students to work in pairs and
circle true or false for these sentences:
tense structures
a. Once upon a time there was a king and
+ vocabulary 10’
queen who lived in a golden castle. true - false
related to the
b. One night an ugly ogre captured the
topic
beautiful princess. true - false
c. The king and queen were very happy.
true - false
d. All the dragons in the land wanted to rescue
the princess. true - false
e. The ugly ogre roared with anger when he
saw the knights. true - false
f. They rode away as slowly as they could.
true - false
g. One day a friendly dragon was flying over
the ogre’s tower. true - false
h. The dragon rescued the princess from the
castle. true -false
 The teacher checks the students’ answers and
corrects them whenever it is necessary.
4 Further The teacher asks the students to watch a video The students perform the activity in groups.
practice ‘The Tale of Mr Morton’ and then complete the
15’
lyrics with Past Tense regular verbs.

Giving The teacher assigns homework: page 95 ex 1

5 and 2 + page 96 ex.3
homework /
2’
Marking the
students