LESSON PLAN
Teacher: Lăcătușu Izabela Cristina
School: Liceul Teoretic “Horia Hulubei”
Date: 11.06.2019
Grade: 9th
Topic: Present Perfect vs. Past Tense
Type of lesson: Acquiring new knowledge (grammar lesson)
Time: 50 minutes
Teacher’s roles: controller, organizer, observer, assessor
Students’ roles: collaborator, participant, autonomous learner
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able:
-to recognize past simple and present perfect sentences;
-to recognize the time expressions that go with the present perfect and past tense;
-to distinguish and use the present perfect and past simple;
-to provide coherent and logical answers to questions;
-to write down the correct information related to the audio text
Aims for teacher:
-to stimulate students’ interest in the topic;
-to improve students’ grammatical knowledge as well as their speaking;
-to improve the students’ ability to use the new information in a meaningful
context;
-to encourage all the students to participate during the class.
Skills:
-receptive skills: reading, listening;
-productive skills: writing, speaking
Didactic strategy:
a) Methods: presentation, exercises, explanation, conversation, brainstorming,
reflection, diagrams.
b) Aids: handouts, blackboard, chalk, computer, flipchart.
Interaction: teacher- students, student- student, student- teacher, teacher-pair, pair-
teacher.
Evaluation:
-Initial: homework check-up
-Continue: through activities and error correction
-Final: through oral feed-back and homework
Previous knowledge: The Simple Past Tense and the Present Perfect Tense
Anticipated problems:
some students are shy and sometimes they feel embarrassed when they are
asked to express their opinion
Teacher’s Attitude: she moves round the class, keep eye-contact, makes positive
remarks, encourages Ss to speak, to involve in communication, to listen to each
other.
Procedure
Activity 1- Warm-up
Objectives: to check presence and create a suitable atmosphere in the
classroom
Skill focus: speaking, listening
Method: dialogue
Procedure:
Introductory conversation
Teacher checks absentees and students answer
Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-T
Timing: 2’
Activity 2: checking homework
Objectives: to check understanding of the problem, to correct mistakes
Skill focus: speaking
Methods: conversation
Procedure:
Teacher asks students to read their homework
Students take turns and read their homework and correct it if
necessary
Interaction: T-S, S-T
Timing: 5’
Activity 3- Lead-in
Objectives: to set lesson context and engage students
Skill focus: speaking, listening, writing
Methods: conversation, explanation, reflection
Procedure:
Teacher asks whether the students remember the simple past and
present perfect or not.
Ss answer the question.
Teacher asks Ss to listen carefully two songs and complete the
worksheets with the missing words.
Ss complete the task; T intervenes if necessary.
Interaction: T-S, S-T
Timing: 10’
Activity 4- Presentation
Objectives: to recognize past simple and present perfect sentences, to
distinguish the present perfect and past simple
Skill focus: reading, speaking, writing
Methods: conversation, exercise, brainstorming, diagram
Procedure:
Teacher presents SS a diagram with the main characteristics of both
Past Tense and Present Perfect
Teacher shows Ss a flipchart and asks them to find as many words or
expressions as they can regarding the tenses in order to discover the
differences between them.
Ss write the words on the flipchart; T intervenes if necessary.
Interaction: T-S, S-T, S-S
Timing: 10’
Activity 5- Practice
Objectives: to use correctly both present perfect and past tense, to solve
exercises.
Skill focus: reading, writing, speaking
Methods: conversation, exercise
Procedure:
T asks Ss to work in pairs and solve ex. II from their worksheets.
Ss read their answers and correct if necessary
Interaction: T-S, S-T, T-P, P-T
Timing: 10’
Activity 6- Production
Objectives: to develop students’ paragraph writing, to improve students’
correct spelling.
Skill focus: reading, speaking
Methods: conversation, exercise, brainstorming
Procedure:
T gives instructions about the next task. Ss have to write, in pairs, a
composition starting from the following statement: “My last holiday was
fantastic.”
Ss solve the task and read their compositions.
Interaction: T-S, S-T, T-P, P-T
Timing: 12’
Activity 7- Feed-back and homework assignment
Method: explanation, conversation
Procedure:
T announces the homework and gives instructions for its assignment.
She appreciates students’ behavior during the class and names some
students who gave correct answers.
The students write down the homework.
The teacher gives students thanks for their time and attention and
dismisses the class.
Interaction: T-Ss
Timing: 1’
