Description of

class
Teaching unit
6.

_______________________ primary school; Class: IX; Class profile: 25- 30 students; 14 years old;
Subject: English language; Location: English classroom; School year: 2012/2013. Teacher: Amila Islamovi,prof.
Unit 1 The past simple and the past continuous Revision

Recent work

Past tenses- the Past Perfect and Past Simple

Type of lesson

Revision

Sources

OUP- English Plus 4 Students Book by Ben Wetz & Diana Pye; Workbook 4 with MultiROM and CDs; Teachers
Book
Aims and objectives To revise the past simple and the past continuous tense
To learn the use of the past simple and the past continuous
Short term
To learn how to highlight examples of tenses
To check SS knowledge
Long term
To learn key phrases for talking about memories
To practise talking about memories
To improve SS vocabulary
To establish SS will
Methods
Communicative
Grammar- translation
Class management

Individual work
Whole class
Pair work

Interaction
Teaching aids,
materials and
equipment

T S,S,S
S, S, S
S,S- S,S
Student's Book, Workbook, Board, Chalk, Notebook, Pen ,Teacher's Book, crayons

Procedure

Introduction part, main part, final part

Additional plan

There is no time for additional activity.

Main part

Main part

y partIntroductor

Aims and objectives

To check SS homework
To correct mistakes

Class organization procedure and

activities
T asks SS to show her their homework. T
calls up some volunteers to read sentences
and whole class checks the answers.

T writes a few sentences on the board.

To revise the past simple and They were playing when it started to rain.
the past continuous tense
I was having a bath when the telephone rang.
She was studying English all day yesterday.
To learn the use of the past
While I was writing homework, my mother
simple and the past
was preparing lunch. Then she elicits which
continuous
tenses are used. T uses coloured chalk to
indicate different tenses.
To learn how to highlight
T discuss about past tenses with SS in L1.
examples of tenses
They read sentence by sentence and make
conclusion.
Form:
past tense of auxiliary verb to be (was,
were) + present participle (verb + ing)
Use
1. The Past Continuous is used to talk about
an action that was in progress in the past.
2. For the parallel actions that were in
progress in the past.
3. To express a past activity when one action
interrupts another (the past simple tense).
Longer action is in the past continuous and
shorter action is in the past simple. T asks SS
to copy examples, form and use from the
board.

Teaching
aids
Workbook

Notebook
Pen
Board
Chalk
Coloured
chalk

Possible
problems
Some SS
have a lot
of
mistakes.

Possible
solutions
T insists
they
correct
them.

None.

None.

Timing

10

Main part
Main part
Main part

To revise the past simple and

the past continuous tense
To learn the use of the past
simple and the past
continuous
To learn how to highlight
examples of tenses

To practise the past simple

and the past continuous

To learn key phrases for

talking about memories
To practise talking about
memories

T asks SS to take their SB and open them on SB

page 13. T goes through the exercises 1 and 4 Pen
and gives instructions how to do exercise on
page 13. SS work in pairs.
When they finish, different SS read and the
class checks the answer.

Some SS
need help.

T asks SS to look at the first sentence in

History quiz and asks: Which action was in
progress? (he was competing)
Which sentence is finished? (he won)
SS continue writing their questions
individually.
T puts SS into pairs to answer the questions.
They listen and check to the quiz questions.
T asks SS how many they got right.

SB
Notebook
Pencil
Board
Chalk
Tape
recorder

Ss dont
know all
answers.
Its history
quiz.

T writes some phrases on the board. Those

are key phrases for talking about memories.
T reads the key phrases with the class, and
checks that SS understand them.
T elicits which phrases are for things we
have forgotten.

Pictures
Board
Chalk
Notebook
Pen

None.

T walks
around the
class and
asks their
partner to
help them.

T helps
them with
some
answers.

None.

To improve SS vocabulary

Final part

Check SS knowledge

Short control work - paste tenses

T gives SS handout with only one task:
Complete the sentences with the correct past
form. Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past
Perfect
They have 5 minutes.
The results will be next lesson.

Handout
Pen

Some SS
are not
happy. They
havent
learnt
regularly.

The
sentences
arent
difficult
and
everybody
can solve
them.