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Elementary 1, Lesson Plan

This document provides a lesson plan summary for an English language lesson on July 5th, 2016. The objective is for students to learn the difference between regular and irregular verbs in the past simple tense. The lesson includes lead-in activities to review collocations. Students then read a text about the film director James Cameron and fill in dates and numbers. They identify regular and irregular verbs in the text and learn rules for forming the past tense of regular verbs by adding "-ed" and exceptions for irregular verbs which change completely. Pronunciation practice focuses on distinguishing regular and irregular past tense verbs.

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Elementary 1, Lesson Plan

This document provides a lesson plan summary for an English language lesson on July 5th, 2016. The objective is for students to learn the difference between regular and irregular verbs in the past simple tense. The lesson includes lead-in activities to review collocations. Students then read a text about the film director James Cameron and fill in dates and numbers. They identify regular and irregular verbs in the text and learn rules for forming the past tense of regular verbs by adding "-ed" and exceptions for irregular verbs which change completely. Pronunciation practice focuses on distinguishing regular and irregular past tense verbs.

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DAY: 29

DATE: Monday, July 4th, 2016


BOOK: Face to face, Elementary 1
UNIT: 5
LESSON: 5A
PAGES: 41
OBJECTIVE: By the end of this lesson ss will be able to talk about their past event using positive
and negative forms of the verb be.

1. LEAD-IN
 T shows a picture of a the World Cup trophy in order to elicit the words:
o World Cup, match, won
 T draws an idea web around the picture and asks:
o What do you think of when you see this picture?

2. PRE-TEACH
 T elicits the meaning of won, T can give sentence.
a. Germany won the World Cup in 2014.
b. or resort to translation (ganó) and write the word on one side of the board as
emergent language
c. the past of win
 T introduces the word street by using a picture

3. TEXT TASK
 T asks ss about Jason and his thirteenth birthday party.
 ss look at the photo B.
 T asks:
o What do you think is happening in this picture? (a birthday party)
o Whose party do you think it is? (Albert’s)

a. GIST
 5a. T tells ss that they are going to listen to Jason asking his grandfather, Albert about his
thirteenth birthday party.
 ss answer the following questions:
o Where was he (Albert)? (He was in Liverpool)
o Why was his birthday a special day? (His birthday party was the same day that
England won the World Cup).
 T makes sure ss understand questions, especially the word Why and its answer because…

b. DETAILED
 5b. ss listen to CD2 T2 again and answer the questions.
o 1. 30th July 1966
o 2. At his parents’ house and in the street.
o 3. Yes, they were.
o 4. Yes, it was.
o They were in London.
 Pair check
 WCFB

PRONUNCIATION
 6a. T writes on the board the following sentences.
o I was in Liverpool with my parents.
o All my friends were there.
 T asks some ss to read the sentences.
 T plays CD2 T3, ss listen and practice.
 Ss notice the shwa sound in was and were.
 T elicits American pronunciation of was and were.
 Ss practice the sentences in the boob.

4. ELICITATION OF EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT


 T presents a chart with the following sentences:
o When was Albert’s 13th birthday?
o Where was the party?
o Were his friends there?
o Was the food good?
o Where were his grandparents?
o Were your grandparents there?

5. LANGUAGE FOCUS
 T asks the following questions to ss.
o What type of questions can you see in the poster? Wh-questions, yes-no questions
o Does was and were go before or after the subject? Before the subject.
o When do we use was and were? Was for singular and were for plural
o What is the form of a wh-question?
 Question word + was/were + subject + complement + ?
o What is the form of a yes-no question? Was/Were + subject + complement + ?
o Are the forms different in present and past? No, (t elicits the form in present)
 Be + subject + complement + ?
 Wh-word + be + subject + complement +?
 Ss make notes of this
 T elicits the short answers for yes-no questions.
o Yes, subject pronoun + was/were.
o No, subject pronoun + wasn’t/weren’t.
 Ss make notes of short answers.

T gives ss worksheet 28 as further practice.

6. CONTROLLED PRACTICE
 7a. ss look at the table.
 Ss notice the word order.
 Ss write questions 2, 4 and 5 from 5b.
Question word Was/were subject complement ?
1
2 Where was The party ?
3
4 was The food good ?
5 where were His grandparents?

 7b. ss fill in the gaps in those short answers with was, were, wasn’t and weren’t.
o Yes, I/he/she/it was.
o Yes, you/we/they were.
o No, I/he/she/it wasn’t.
o No, you/we/they weren’t.
 7c. ss fill in the gaps with was and were.
o 1 were, was
o 2 was, was
 pair check
 FB: via chart

7. FREER PRACTICE
 9a. T writes years on the board
 ss practice how to say the years in pairs
 ss listen to CD2, 5 to focus on saying the years
o T emphasizes how to say 1907 (nineteen oh seven)
 9c, ss write the names of 5 people in their family or friends ( ss need to know the date their
birth dates)
 T writes on the board the sentences:
o When was ____ born? In_____
 T elicits answers from the ss to fill in the gaps
 T asks what kind of information we can get through this question. (time)
 T elicits question to ask to refer to place and writes on the board.
o Where was____ born? ______was born in______
 ss get in pairs and ask and answer both questions about their 5 relatives or friends.

 10a. ss work on this exercise (making questions with you)


o Where were you last night?
o Were you at home yesterday afternoon?
o Where were you on your last birthday?
o Where were you last New Year’s Eve?
 pair check
 FB.- via answer sheet
 10b. ss ask 3 other classmates the previous questions.

GET READY… GET IT RIGHT!


 pair work, A p. 105; B p. 110
 ss write questions with you or your about when they were thirteen.
 ss fill in the you column
 ss get in pairs and ask their partners the questions and write answers
 ss tell in new partner about them and their old partner when they were thirteen.
DAY: 30
DATE: Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
BOOK: Face to face, Elementary 1
UNIT: 5
LESSON: 5B
PAGES: 42
OBJECTIVE: By the end of this lesson, ss will have known the difference between regular and
irregular verb through Past Simple tense.

1. LEAD-IN
 T elicits the meaning of the word ‘collocations’.
 T shows some pictures for ss to guess the correct collocation.
o get married/divorced
o leave school/university
o become
o move house/to a different country
o win
o make a film
o make a lot of money
 t models and drills.
 1a. Ss open their books at page 42 and fill in the gaps to form collocations on their own.
 T monitors and helps.
 Pair check
 WCFB
 FB. T shows folded word cards with all the collocations
o leave school/university, meet my husband/my wife, get married/divorced, make a
film/a lot of money, become a film director/famous.
 T hands out a wordsearch with the collocations.
o ss first complete the collocations on the lists
o ss solve the word search
2. PRE-TEACH
 3a. T teaches words: a script, successful, diving, a billion by eliciting meaning from ss.

3. TEXT TASK
a. GIST TASK
 2. Ss look at the posters A-D.
 Ss discus what do they know about those films as whole class.
 T asks if ss know the movie director, James Cameron.

b. DETAILED TASK
 3b. ss fill the gaps in the text with numbers and dates
 pair check
 FB. ss listen to CD2 T6 and check their answers.

4. ELICITATION OF EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT


 ss look at the pink and blue words in the text.
 T elicits what they are. verbs

5. LANGUAGE FOCUS
 T gives ss worksheet 30.
 T asks ss to observe the verbs in blue.
 T asks ss
o What do these verbs have in common? They all end in –ed.
o What type of verbs are they? Regular verbs
o What is their infinitive form? Ss write the infinitive form
o How do we form the past form?
o ss work in pairs or groups and write the rules
 ss copy these verbs on the left side of the chart

REGULAR REGULAR RULES IRREGULAR IRREGULAR


VERBS VERBS VERBS VERBS
INFINITIVE PAST INFINITIVE PAST

Move moved most verbs → + ed Go went


Study studied finish in -e → + d Leave left
Want wanted Write wrote
Work worked finish in consonant + y Have had
Start started → cross y out and + Become became
Love loved ied Make made
Visit visited Win won
Marry married finish in CVC → double Meet met
Stop stopped the final consonant get got
plan planned

 ss focus on the word in pink.


o What type of verbs are the word in pink? Irregular
o What do they have in common? Nothing
o Do they have rules, do you think? No
o What happens with them in past? They change completely.
 Ss put the pink verbs in the correct place in their worksheets.
 T elicits the infinitive of each verb
 Pair check
 WCFB

PRONUNCIATION
 5a. ss listen to CD2 T7 for regular verbs.
 ss listen and practice.
 5b. ss listen to CD2 T8 for irregular verbs.
 Ss listen and practice.
 6a. T makes ss focus on the two pairs of sentences to make ss notice the difference in
sounds when dealing with Present Simple and Past Simple
 Ss listen and repeat.
 6b. ss listen to 6 pairs of sentences and say which sentence they hear first
o 1. present simple
o 2. Past Simple
o 3. Past Simple
o 4. Present Simple
o 5. Present Simple
o 6. Present Simple.

6. CONTROLLED PRACTICE
 4a. Ss look at the regular Past Simple forms in blue in the article.
 Ss answer the questions in this activity.
o Adding –ed to the verbs.
o We only add –d to them.
o We change the consonant –y to –ied.
 4b. ss look at the irregular Past Simple forms in pink in the article again.
 Ss match them the verbs they have in this activity.
o 1. Became
o 2. Got
o 3. Went
o 4. Had
o 5. Left
o 6. Made
o 7. Met
o 8. Won
o 9. Wrote
 Pair check
 WCFB.
 7. ss fill in the gaps with the Past Simple of the verbs in the box.
o was
o married; got
o wrote
o made
o won
o started
 pair check
 WCFB

7. FREER PRACTICE
 Ss work on their own.
 Ss think of the last time they visited a different town or city.
 Ss write sentences with the following prompts.
 Ss can use their own ideas to complete their sentences.
o I (go) to ……..
o I (go) there by …………
o I (arrive) at ……… o’clock.
o I (travel) on my own/ with my …….
o When I was there I (visit) ………
o I also (go) to ………
o I (go) shopping and I (buy) ……….
o I (leave) there ……. and (get) home ……..
o I (be) there for ……. days/weeks.
o I (have) a good/great/terrible time.
 T monitors and helps.
 Ss practice their sentences until they can remember them.
 Ss work in groups of three.
 Ss tell each other about the last time they visited a different town or city.
 T monitors and checks.
 Ss tell the class two things about the place they visited.
DAY: 31-32
DATE: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
BOOK: Face to face, Elementary 1
UNIT: 5
LESSON: 5B, 5C
PAGES: 43, 44, 45
OBJECTIVE: By the end of this lesson, ss will have learnt how to make questions with regular and
irregular verbs.

1. LEAD-IN & TEXT TASK


 8a. ss read the article about Cameron’s world again and answer the questions.
 ss underline the places in the text where they find the answers
o 1c
o 2b
o 3c
o 4a
 Pair check
 WCFB

2. ELICITATION OF EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT


 t presents the following examples.
 What did James study at university?
 When did he make Terminator 2?
 Which film did he make in 3D in 2009?
 Who did he marry in 1997?

3. LANGUAGE FOCUS
a. CONCEPT CHECKING QUESTIONS
 T asks the following questions.
 What can you see in the poster? Wh-questions
 What are the subjects? James, he, he, he.
 What are the verbs? Study, make, make, marry
 Are they infinitive verbs? Yes, they are.
 What is did, do you think? An auxiliary.
 Does did express past or present? Past.
 Where is it, before or after the subject? Before.
 What is the form, then? Wh-word + did + subject + inf. Verb + complement + ?
 Ss make notes of that.

4. CONTROLLED PRACTICE
 9a. ss focus on this exercise.
 Ss read the form of a wh-question
 Ss write questions 3 and 4 from 8a in the table.

question word auxiliary subject infinitive Complement ?

What did James study at school ?

When did he make Terminator 2 ?

Which film did he make in 3D in 2009 ?

Who did he marry in 1997 ?

 Pair check
 WCFB
 10a. ss unjumble the words on exercise 10a to make questions.
 1. What did you do yesterday?
 2. Where did you go on holiday last year?
 3. What did you do last weekend?
 4. How many films did you see last month?
 5. Where did you meet your best friend?
 Pair check
 WCFB
 10c. ss work in pairs to ask and answer questions.
 T monitors and checks.

T gives worksheet 31 as further practice.

5. FREER PRACTICE
 Get ready… Get it right!
 T hands out worksheet 32.
 Individually ss choose 6 of these events in their lives and write the year/month when these
things happened to them on a timeline.
o born
o brother/ sister born
o start/leave school
o move to a new school
o start learning English
o go to your first concert/football match
o start/leave university
o meet your first girlfriend/boyfriend
o move to a different town/city
o meet your husband/wife
o start your first job/a new job
o get married
o have a child
o meet your best friend
 ss write sentences on the timeline about the events they chose.
 ss tell another student (who is not sitting next to them) about their timeline
 t monitors and checks.
 Ss share what they were talking.

5C REAL WORLD: Four weekends

1. LEAD-IN
 T pre-teaches
o a couple of days
o a bad cold
o the washing
o go away
o a report
o all weekend
 1a. ss work in pairs.
 ss look at the phrases 1-8.
 T models and drills the words in the box.
 Ss fill in the gaps with the words and phrases in the box.
o 2. clean the house
o 3. do your homework
o 4. write a report
o 5. go away for a couple of days
o 6. have a bad cold
o 7. go to your parents’ house for lunch
o 8. stay at home all weekend
 WCFB
 T establishes the difference between
o be cold and have (got) a cold,
o all weekend (all the hours in one weekend),
o every weekend (all the weekends in one week, month, etc.)
o do the washing (clothes) do the laundry (US)
o do the washing up (plates, cutlery, etc.).
 1b. T tells ss to underline the verbs in 1a.
 ss work in pairs and write the Past Simple forms of the verbs
 WCFB
 2b. T tells ss to write 5 sentences about things they did last weekend.
 ss use phrases from 1a where possible.
 T monitors and checks
 Ss share their sentences.

2. PRE-TEACH
 T tells ss to focus on A-D and T asks ss what they are. (an email, a social networking site
entry , a list, a text).
 T introduces a social networking site entry (picture)

3. TEXT TASK
a. GIST TASK
 3a. T gives ss 2 minutes to read texts A-D.
 ss listen to CD2 T12 . It is conversations. Ss match the texts to the people in the pictures.
o a. Tim
o b. Emily
o c. Simon
o d. Rachel
 pair check
 FB. T tells ss to give reasons for their choices.
b. DETAIL TASK
 3b. ss watch or listen again.
 Ss answer true or false.
o 2 True
o 3 False
o 4 False
o 5 True
o 6 False
o 7 False
o 8 True
 Pair check
 WCFB
 4a. ss listen to CD2 T13.
 T gives ss time to read the sentences 1-8 and responses a-h.
 T plays the recording. Ss listen and match the sentences to the responses.
o 2d
o 3a
o 4g
o 5b
o 6h
o 7e
o 8f
 Ss compare answers.
 FB
 4b-c. T pre-teaches sorry and be surprised.
 T gives ss worksheet 33.
 Ss look at the chart. Ss put the phrases a-h into the chart.

I’m happy for you. I’m sorry for you. I’m surprised. I’m not surprised.

Oh, great! Oh, dear! Wow! Oh, right.

Oh, nice. What a shame. Really?

You’re joking!
 Pair check
 WCFB

 T models and shows the difference in intonation by saying ‘Really’ (in an interested way)
and ‘really’ (in a bored manner).
 T tells ss that intonation is important. T tells ss to listen and copy the intonation.
 5. Ss listen to CD2 T14 and practice the responses in 4b.

REAL WORLD: Asking follow-up questions


 T tells ss. that after showing interest, we often continue a conversation by asking follow-up
questions to find out more information.
 6a. Ss work on their own and fill in the gaps in the questions on exercise 6a.
o 1. was
o 2. Are
o 3. did
o 4. did
o 6.did
o 7. did
o 8. did
 Pair check
 WCFB

FORM
 T focuses on the auxiliaries used in the questions.
o we use auxiliary DID when there is a verb in the question
o If there isn’t a verb we use WAS or ARE.
 If question refers to the past → use WAS/WERE
 If question refers to the present → use ARE

MEANING
 Ss get in pairs.
 Ss now in their worksheets. Ss put questions 1-8 from 6a into this chart.
o T reminds ss that they can use the same phrases more than once depending on the
situation

was ill at the stayed at home? went to the cinema? went away for the
weekend? weekend?

What was wrong? What did you What did you see? What was it like?
Are you OK now? do? What was it like? Where did you go?
Who did you go Who did you go with?
with? Where did you stay?

 WCFB
 T points out that: What is it like? = describe/give an opinion about a place or thing.
 T points out that we don’t use like in the answer. We say: It was… (great/expensive/boring,
etc.)
 T models and drills the questions.

4. CONTROLLED PRACTICE
 7a. ss get in pairs.
 T asks ss to look at the audio script on page 158 and look at conversation between Rachel
and Simon.
 ss underline all the responses from 4a and follow-up questions from 6a.
 T tells ss to practise the conversation with their partner.
 T monitors and corrects any errors in pronunciation.

5. FREER PRACTICE
 8a. ss make notes on what they did:
o last weekend
o last week
o yesterday
o before you came to this lesson
o on Friday evening
 Ss work out how to make questions based on the previous prompts.
o T provides help if necessary, by reminding ss about the BE and OTHER VERBS
past forms
 (Wh-word) + was/were + subject + complement ?
 (Wh-word) + did + subject + complement?

 8b. T models the activity with a student. (with follow up questions)


 ss ask and answer questions in pairs.
 T encourages ss to use follow-up questions
o What was wrong?
o Are you OK now?
o What did you do?
o What did you see?
o What was it like?
o Who did you go with?
o What was it like?
o Where did you go?
o Who did you go with?
o Where did you stay?
 T monitors and notes down errors for error correction.
 ss share 3 interesting things their partner told them with the class.
 Error correction (T writes the sentences on the board, ss write them correctly).

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