Lesson Plan

Foundations C Grammar
Weekly Theme: Past Tense

Date: Tuesday, February 20th, 2019

OBJECTIVES TIME MATERIALS ACTIVITIES

Welcome to class.

Students will Review: Questions students have

understand why they 5-10 min on homework from yesterday.
got answers wrong (Workbook Ch 2# 21, 24)
from their homework.
Overview: written on the board

Students will Present: When to use “Used to.”

correctly use the 10 min Projector Present with PowerPoint. Watch
phrase “used to” in advertisement that used “used
complete sentences PowerPoint to.” What does it mean? Present
and questions. “used to” forms of statements,
negatives, and questions. Read
examples as a class.

Practice: Students will work

10-15 min with a partner to complete
textbook exercises 41, 42, and 44.
Go over answers and questions as
a class.

15 min Hand out Produce: Two truths and a lie

activity. Students write two truths
and one lie about their past
habits, using “used to.” Have
each student read their sentences.
As a class, guess which statement
is the lie.

Students will use 15 min Vocabulary: Give everyone 2

circumlocution to minutes to study the word list.
describe vocabulary Divide the class into 2 teams. Put
from this week’s papers with the words in a bag.
word list. Have one person from the first
team come to the front of the
room and draw a word. They
 have 20 seconds to describe the
word to their team without saying
the word itself. If the team
guesses correctly, they can draw
other words until their time is up.
Then the next team goes. Count
up the total number of words
each team guessed correctly.

Students will identify 2 min Evaluate/ Summarize: Show the

grammatical forms of forms of statements, negatives,
statements, negative and questions and ask students to
statements, and identify which one is which.
questions that use
“used to.”
Reminder about homework:
Workbook Ch 2 #22, 25, 26

CONTINGENCY PLAN: Pronunciation of “used to” (usta).

This lesson is planned for a Foundations C Grammar Class at the ELC. This course

focuses on the learning and application of traditional grammar structures and concepts in both

speaking and writing.

This specific lesson is to introduce a specific grammar concept—using the phrase “used

to” to express past habits. The textbook used is Betty Azar’s Fundamentals of English Grammar.

I presented the grammar concept, gave the students opportunities to practice using the concept

with guided exercises, and asked students to produce their own language using this concept. I

also focused on vocabulary with an activity focused on describing words using the strategy of

circumlocution.