LESSON PLAN

Trainee Teacher: Belle Rodopiano Host teacher: Carla Time: 16:20 – 18h (100’) Date: 09/11/2017
School: Colégio Estadual Thales de Azevedo Level/Group: 1V7 Number of SS:
Goals: By the end of this class students will be better able to use the past simple

Step Activity Interaction Material Anticipated problems

and time

 T greets STs and separates them into trios

or groups of four. Then, T hands in a few
cards with pictures of daily routine activities
and their correspondent phrases (wake up,
T-ST
take a shower, brush my teeth, have
Board Students may not be aware of the vocabulary
breakfast, go to school, go home, have
PAIRS/ Markers related to their routine and to the extra
WARM UP lunch, have dinner, do my homework and
TRIOS(ST- cards activities.
sleep).
ST) T can mime and help students out.
 STs match the phrases with the pictures and
T asks whether STs do such activities every
day.

 T hands in another set of cards, this time

with different activities (watch TV, read a
book, play soccer, play videogames, go
to the beach, go to the movies) and, again,
STs match the phrases to the pictures. Students may not be familiarized with the
 T then, writes on the board: “What did you vocabulary.
Board
do on the weekend?” and elicits answers T-ST T can act out a few actions
ENGAGE Markers
from STs.
cards
 T writes STs’ answers on the board, and Students may not be accurate with grammar.
calls attention to the structure of the simple T will guide and help STs
past tense.
 T will also call attention to interrogative
sentences and negative sentences by asking
a few STs “did you go to the mall on the
 weekend?”, then elicit answers, such as
“yes, I did/No, I didn’t”.
 NOTE: T will also call STs’ attention to
the use of regular and irregular verbs in
the simple past tense

 T writes grammar aspects that may be

missing and brushes up any doubts that STs
may have.
 Then, T hands out the activity sheets
(attached) and explains the activities to the
class. Then, individually, STs do activities 1 T-ST STs may not be aware of the use of irregular
Board
and 2 from the worksheet. T corrects the PAIRS past tense verbs.
STUDY Markers
activities and, in pairs, STs do activity 3. (ST-ST) T will hand out a sheet with a list of irregular
Worksheet
 T asks STs to write their answers on the verbs (attached).
board, and elicit correction from the group.
 After that, the group does a find someone
who survey (attached) about things their
classmates did yesterday.

Game: hot potato – T plays a song and STs pass a

soft ball around a circle. When the song stops, the
ST who has the ball gets sleet of paper (attached) PAIRS
ACTIVATE from a box and answers the question. If the ST gets ST-ST
the sentence wrong, T helps him/her out, but the ST
leaves the circle. The last ST in the game wins.