Lesson Plan

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Date: 11 December 2014
Class: 7th grade
Topic: Present Perfect Simple
Unit: You`re Nicola aren`t you?
Lesson Type: mixt
Main aims:
2.1. Producerea unor enunţuri afirmative, negative, interogative, exclamative
4.1.Redactarea unor texte scurte folosind cuvinte de legatură simple (şi, dar,
pentru că, deci)
4.2. Redactarea unor mesaje scurte, familiare, pe teme din universul imediat
Lesson aims:
-build sentences with present perfect and with just, already and yet as time
adverbials
-build communicative structures about themselves using present perfect and just,
already and yet as time adverbials
-identify past simple and present perfect situations
-justify choosing present or past simple in a text.
-build a similar dialogue
Methods and materials: textbook, present perfect board poster, worksheets, role
cards
Textbook: Snapshot Pre-intermediate, Longman
Time: 50 minutes
Activity 1: Lead-in :
Time 2 minutes/ Interaction : T-Ss
Aim: setting a warm atmosphere
The teacher check attendance and delivers many introductury utterances
by using question tags such as : “You knew that we are having a special class
today, didn`t you?” , “Your homework was a worksheet wasn`t it?” .

Activity 2: Check homework

Time 5 minutes/ Interaction : T-Ss

Activity 3: Present Perfect Bingo Games

Time 10 minutes/ Interaction : Ss-Ss
Aims : -identify present perfect structures
Procedure:
The teacher announces todays` class subject
( Present Perfect Practice with just, already and yet)
Pupils are listening to tapescript “You`re Nicola, aren`t you? “ again, then
they are asked to identify present perfect structures. The teacher displays a board
present perfect poster and elicits its main features : form and meaning. Teacher
and pupils play two types of bingo, with both regular and irregular verbs.

Activity 4:
Exercise 8/page 44 Practice Present Perfect Simple with just/ already/yet.
Time 15 minutes/ Interaction : T-Ss
Aims : -build sentences with present perfect and with just, already and yet as time
adverbials;
-build communicative structures about themselves using present perfect
and just, already and yet as time adverbials
Procedure:
Studentds solve the exercise, then try to personalize the structures with examples
of their own.

Write three things have you done very recently.

Example: I have just opened my text book.
1. _________________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________________
Write down five things you plan to do today, but haven’t done yet.
Example: I haven’t had dinner yet.
1. _________________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________________

Activity 5: Time 12 minutes/ Interaction : T-Ss

Aim: -write down dialogues expressing permission
-work in pairs efficiently
Procedure:

The teacher sets up the class into six groups hands out role cards. She
explains the task:

Write down dialogues using these rolecards. Keep in mind that they should
contain some of the given phrases on the parent`s part.

You are a parent. Your son/ daughter wants to talk to you. You always tell
him /her that they must finish all their homework and do all the chores before
they go out.

You know that you need to …………………………………

I`ve decided that……………….…………..……because……………………..

You can/can`t ………………………….………...because………………………….

You can ……………………if you …………………………………

You are a teenager. You want to stay out late with your friends tonight.
Usually you stay out until 8 p.m. but tonight you want to stayout until 11 p.m.

done your homework (x)

cleaned your room ( v)

taken out the garbage (x)

 You are 13 year old boy who wants to go out with some friends playing
football, but you haven`t done your chores yet.

fed the animals (x)

brought water (x)

done you homework (v)

You are a 12 year old girl and you want to go out with some other girls on a
bike ride , but it`s already getting dark.

done your homework (v)

tidied up your room (x)

done the laundry (x)

Pupils write the dialogues in teams of four. They assign each other different
task: looking up for words in the dictionary, checking spelling, writing, dictating,
reading. Team leaders read their dialogues.

Activity 6: Feedback

Time 3 minutes/ Interaction : T-Ss

Aim: -write down dialogues expressing permission
-work in pairs
The teacher asks for a short rewind of what they have worked on this
lesson: past participle bingo games, building sentences with already, just and yet,
building dialogues in pairs.

The teacher assesses the activity orally.

 Activity 7: Homework

Time 3 minutes/ Interaction : T-Ss

Aim: -practice present perfect structures
Procedure:
The teacher hands out the sheets for their homework and explains the task.
Students fill in the first two sentences orally.