Lesson plan

Teacher:
School:
Date:
Grade: 6th
Number of students:
Level: Elementary (L2)
Unit 19: They were sold as slaves
Topic: The passive: past simple
Type of lesson: Grammar in a nutshell
Skills: speaking, writing, reading, listening
Methods: conversation, explanation, dialogue, exercise
Classroom interaction: individual work, pair - work
Teaching aids: blackboard, chalk, handouts
Students’ book: Snapshot Elementary Longman
Time: 50 minutes
Aims:
 to get the students involved in the topic;
 to give Ss practice in using the passive;
 to develop students’ listening skills;
 to develop students’ writing skills;
 to develop students’ communication skills.

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Evaluation: - continue - through activities, observation, error correction
- final - through feed-back

Stage of lesson/ Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Interaction Skills and Materials Aims
Timing methods used
1. Teacher enters the class greets the The students greet the teacher T –Ss - speaking - blackboard -to assure the
Organizational students, and then T asks if there are and tell the absentees if there introductive part
moment / 2 min. any absentees. Then T asks one of are any. A student writes the of the lesson.
the Ss to write the date on the date on the blackboard and the - questioning - chalk
blackboard. others open their notebooks and
write the date.
2. The T asks the Ss to choose from a The Ss read the verb that they T – Ss - speaking - blackboard - to assure the
transition
Warm – up / bowl a piece of paper on which they have on the piece of paper and
between the
3 min can read a verb at past participle. then write it on the blackboard Organizational
Moment and the
They are both regular and irregular in the suitable column. - writing - chalk
Checking of
forms. On the blackboard, the T Ss alone Previous
Knowledge.
draws a table with two columns:
one for regular forms and the other - reading - pieces of
- to revive the
for irregular ones. Every student paper with
spirit of the class
has to come very quickly to the past and assure a
proper
blackboard and write the verb that participle
atmosphere for
he/she has on the paper, in the best forms the lesson.
column.
3. The T asks the Ss what they have The Ss answer that the previous T – Ss - speaking - blackboard -to put the Ss in

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Checking the done the previous time they have time they have studied about the the situation to
read their
previous met. Then the T asks the Ss to passive at present tense simple.
homework
knowledge and remember how the passive is The Ss answer the teacher’s - writing - chalk
the homework / formed and to give examples. question and give examples of Ss alone
-to capture the
10 min The T asks if the Ss had a sentences using the passive - students’ Ss` interest and
attention.
homework to do. Then the T and the voice. - reading notebooks
Ss check the homework together. The Ss say that their homework and books
was exercise 6 on page 106 and -explanations
they go to the blackboard to
write the correct form of the
verb in brackets.
4. Once they have remembered about The Ss write the title and the T – Ss - speaking - blackboard - to inform Ss
Introduction of the passive at present simple, the T example in their notebooks. about the topic
the new topic/ tells the Ss that they will move on The Ss use the list of irregular they are going to
3 min to speak about the passive, but at verbs. - writing - chalk learn.
past tense. Thus, the T writes the Ss alone
title on the blackboard and an - students’
example. - reading notebooks
Then the T asks the Ss to tell how - students’
the passive at past simple is formed -explanations list of
and which are the two forms of the irregular
verb “to be” at past simple (“was”, verbs
“were”). Then the T writes on the
blackboard the rule: THE VERB

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 “TO BE” (PAST TENSE SIMPLE)
+ MAIN VERB (PAST
PARTICIPLE).
5. The T tells the Ss to open their The Ss read the text and identify T – Ss - speaking - students’ - to get
familiarized to
Reading and books on page 111 and to read the the passive forms. notebooks
the text, and to
acquiring the text “The transatlantic slave -reading put the Ss in the
situation of
new topic/ trade”. Then the T asks the Ss to
getting implied in
12 min identify the forms of passive voice Ss alone the topic.
- facilitate the
and to say whether the past
acquisition of the
participle forms are regular or new vocabulary
and topic
irregular.
7. T gives the Ss a handout with Ss receive the handouts and T – Ss - reading - handouts - to put the Ss in
Feed – back and exercises where they have to put the work, in pairs of the, the given the situation of
discussion/ verbs in brackets at preset tense exercises. - writing using the new
17 min passive or past tense passive. Then, some of the Ss go to the Ss alone acquired topic.
blackboard and write the correct -blackboard,
verbal form. chalk
8. The T tells the Ss that for next time The Ss write in their notebooks T – Ss - listening - students’ -to consolidate
Homework / they will have to write the text on their homework for the next books and and use the new
1 min page 112 about The Statue of English class. - writing notebooks acquired topic
Liberty and to fill in missing gaps
with the correct form of the passive, Ss alone
past simple.
9. T appreciates Ss` activity both The Ss also say “Good-bye” to T – Ss - listening -to increase Ss`
verbally -praising the activity of the self-confidence
Evaluation/ the teacher.
Ss- and also by giving marks. and encourage

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2 min Then the teacher says “Good-bye” - speaking them in their
study of English.
and leaves the classroom.

HANDOUT - PASSIVE VOICE (PRESENT TENSE AND PAST TENSE)

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I. Rewrite the sentences in passive voice. (Past tense simple)
1. She sang a song. –
2. Somebody hit me. –
3. We stopped the bus. –
4. A thief stole my car. –
5. They didn't let him go. –
6. She did not win the prize. –
7. They did not make their beds.
8. I did not tell them.

II. Rewrite the sentences in passive voice. (Present tense simple)

1. He opens the door. –
2. We set the table.
3. She pays a lot of money. –
4. I draw a picture.
5. They wear blue shoes.
6. They do not help you. –
7. He does not open the book.
8. You do not write the letter. –