Lesson Plan

School: S 08 Burzuc
Class: 5th
Date: 31st of May 2010
Name: Monica Florentina Fazakas
Number of students: 11
Title of the lesson: Past Tense Simple– revision
Time: 50 minutes

Lesson competences:
By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
- Use Past tense for Regular verbs
- Use Past Tense for Irregular verbs
- Recognize the verbs in a song
- Sing a song in English
- Translate some sentences using Past Tense

Materials:
- Handouts
- Worksheets
- List of irregular verbs

Lesson stages:

Activity 1: Warm up
Aim: Introducing students in the atmosphere of the English class.
Procedure: Teacher asks for the absents. The student on duty tells the absents.
Interaction: T-S
Estimated time: 3’

Activity 2: Check up the homework

Aim: Be aware of the importance of doing the homework
Procedure: Teacher asks the students to open their notebooks and show the
homework. The teacher checks the homework and marks it. The students show
their notebooks.
Interaction: T-S
Estimated time: 5’

Activity 3: Lead in
Aim: Remember the information given on Past Tense
Procedure: Teacher asks students at what tense were the verbs in the homework
and announces the students that they are going to revise Past Tense. Than she
asks how do they form the affirmative of past tense, the negative and the
interrogative and gives students to conjugate two verbs, a regular one (to play)
and an irregular one (to come) Interaction: T-S
Estimated time: 10’

Activity 4: Practice
Aim: use Past Tense in exercises
Procedure: Teacher gives students worksheets. In the first exercise students, in
pairs, have to find the past form of the verbs to have, to be, to write, to cook, to
play, to visit, to eat, to come, to buy, to want in a crossword. In the second
exercise they have to fill in the gaps with the past form of the verbs in brackets.
Teacher corrects the crossword. Some students come and write the second
exercise on the blackboard.
Interaction: T-S, S-S
Estimated time: 20’

Activity 5: Singing
Aim: recognize the verbs at past tense in the song Mary had a little lamb and
sing it
Procedure: teacher gives students handouts with the song Mary had a little
lamb; students underline the verbs in the song. Teacher reads the lyrics of the
song and students repeat them. Teacher sings the song and than students sing
too.
Interaction: T-S
Estimated time: 10’

Activity 6: Giving the homework

Aim: translate some sentences
Procedure: teacher tells the students to do the last exercise on the worksheet at
home and marks the students that were active. Students write down their
homework.
Interaction: T-S
Estimated time: 2’
 Worksheet on Past Tense

1. Find the following the past tense of the following verbs: have, be, write,
cook, play, visit, eat, come, buy, want.

A F H A D G H A A W Q S C B
J O P H F S C V S R A D C X
S D W F G B N M B O V C X Z
P L A Y E D G S A T E Z V A
J R N T Y U I O P E C G I G
C V T D C F Q R T Y U I S R
B N E W A S T Y U I K L I W
M L D G M E W Q E R M L T P
K J H F E D S A C O O K E D
B O U G H T O Q W T J N D M

2. Fill in the gaps with the past form of the verbs in brackets:

1. ______he (go) ________ to school yesterday?

2. They (do) ______________ their homework last night.
3. That woman (buy) ________________ a new book this morning.
4. My mother (not cook) _______________ food yesterday.
5. I (am) ______________ hungry yesterday.
6. The joiner (make) _____________ tables and chairs yesterday.
7. Two weeks ago the boy (has) ______________ a new bicycle.
8. We (work) _______________ hard last week.
9. She (not visit) ________________ her grandparents.
10. ________you (like) ________ the food?

3. Translate into English:

1. Am mâncat îngheţată.

2. Am fost la cumpărături.

3. Mi-am cumpărat o rochie.

4. M-am jucat fotbal.

5. Am vizitat muzeul.
Mary Had a Little Lamb

Mary had a little lamb,

Little lamb, little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow.

Everywhere that Mary went,

Mary went, Mary went,
Everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.

It followed her to school one day

School one day, school one day
It followed her to school one day
Which was against the rules.

It made the children laugh and play,

Laugh and play, laugh and play,
It made the children laugh and play
To see a lamb at school.