LESSON PLAN

School: SCOALA GIMNAZIALA STRUGARI

Teacher: CIOLOCA OANA
Class: 5-TH
Date: THE 15-TH OF FEBRUARY
Time of lesson: 50
Textbook: Pathway to English
Lesson Topic: Unit 8: Mans best friend. Irregular verbs (Past Simple)
Skills: integrated
Aims:
To help students feel autonomous
To make a link between the already known information (Past Simple of the regular verbs) and the new topic (Past Simple of the
irregular verbs)
To enhance students learning by improving critical thinking and guessing intelligently
To provide meaningful examples to practice Past Simple of the irregular and regular verbs.
Objectives:
To indetify regular and irregular Past Tense forms
To practice all skills while learning grammar
To guess intelligently Past Tense forms of the irregular verbs
To practice Past Simple forms of the given irregular verbs
Target vocabulary: be, have, go, tell, put, make, go, sit, write, do, take, get.
Material resources:
Blackboard
 Notebooks
Hand-out
Board and flashcards
Projector and laptop
PROCEDURE
Lesson Activities and Procedure
stage
Warm-up T. greets Ss and asks them how they feel.
T. asks Ss. to sit up and repeat after her Bobs story.
They must act according to the sayings.
Hi, my name is Bob and I work in a button factory. One
day my boss came and said: Hi, Bob! Are you
busy?, I said No , Then push this button with
your right/ left hand/ foot/ nose.
Lead-in Ss., one by one, read their homework.
T. asks Ss. to remember that they said: my boss came.
Why came and not comed*? Ss. should predict that
this is a special situation. T. and Ss. conclude that there
is a special category of verbs, different from what they
have learnt.
Type of Time Rationale
interaction
T-Ss 3 Ss. need to get out of their comfort zone
in order to experience new positive
feelings. Also, this activity helps Ss. to
train the two brain hemispheres.
T-Ss 5 T. checks if Ss. did their homework.
It is very important for Students to feel
that they have discovered new rules.
Irregular verbs are difficult to be
memorized so that Ss would have a
different perspective upon a Special
category.
Pre-reading T introduces the topic of the lesson. T-Ss 2 Ss. like to associate grammar with
T. draws a table (2 columns) on the blackboard where faces. For positive, negative, and
interrogative we agreed on the face that
she writes Regular Verbs (Normal ) and Irregular
fits better for each form.
Verbs (Special ).
While- Ss. are encouraged to find more irregular verbs. They T-Ss 10 Ss. need to learn new language items in
reading will be written on the blackboard. chunks. Ss. associate past event with
Each S. has a hand-out with a short story (source: S-S stories.
www-really-learn-english.com). They must read T. gives the model reading because
underline/circle the verbs with regular form/irregular Pair work some of them feel uncomfortable when
form. First, they work individually and then, in pairs. comes to read a new text.
Ss. read the text.
Post-reading Ss. write on the blackboard the verbs from the text T-Ss 15 Ss. revise again the Past form of the
(Infinitive and Past). verbs from the text. Ss. should have
Ss., in pairs, answer the questions from the hand out; reading comprehension (after each text)
they are related to reading comprehension and Past S-S because they get used to rationalize
Simple (Positive and Interrogative). what they read.

Activities
 I. 1. Read and underline the regular verbs (ended in ed) / circle
circle the irregular verbs.

One autumn evening, Charles and Beth went to the theater. They attended a play. The play started at 7:oo. Charles and Beth enjoyed
the theater.
After the play, Charles and Beth walked together in the park. They walked beside the lake. The moon was bright. They talked about
their future.
When Charles and Beth went home, their children were not asleep. They waited for Charles and Beth to return. They were excited to
hear about theater!
Charles told the children about the play. Then Beth put the children to bed. Charles and Beth were very tired. It was a good night.

2. List on the two columns the regular vs. irregular Simple Past forms of the verbs.

Irregular Verbs
Regular verbs
 Infinitive Past Infinitive Past

3. Answer the following questions. Use the Simple Past tense.

1. What did Charles and Beth attend? What time did it start?

2. What did Charles and Beth do after they left the theater? What did they talk about?

3. Who waited for Charles and Beth to return home? What did Beth do?

II. 1. Find the Past Simple of the following verbs: make, go, sit, write, and do.

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