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This is a lesson plan suitable for intermediate level learners. The aim is to develop students’ ability to talk
about past habits using ‘used to’ in the context of childhood. The lesson plan follows a PPP (i.e. Presentation,
Practice, and Production) model of grammar teaching and starts with a situation that generates the target
structure.
Materials needed: pictures of an old man and a child
Level: Intermediate
Timing: 45 min
Objective: The students will be able to use ‘used to’ to talk about past habits.
Preparation
Warm up:
The teacher starts with a warm up to put the students in the mood of learning.
Command drill:
Sit down.
Hold up your right hand.
Show me your pen…
Lead-in:
To prepare the students to the target structure, the teacher reviews the simple past tense
Presentation
He used to be a teacher
The teacher proceeds to check comprehension and asks the following concept checking questions:
1. Was he a teacher?
2. Is he still a teacher now?
Then the teacher elicits the rule of use and form
Use:
We use ‘used to’ to talk about habits or repeated actions in the past which are no longer true.
Form
The teacher provides a diagram to clarify the use of the target structure:
Practice
Matching
a. But when they were poor, they used to live in a tiny flat.
b. But now he is retired.
c. I used to exercise regularly.
d. She didn’t use to like animals.
Production
‘used to’
‘didn’t use to..’