"The Past Simple Tense"

Lesson plan

Form: 3

Theme: The Past Simple Tense in the fairy – tale “Goldfish”

The Objectives:

1. Teaching: to practise the grammar item “Past simple”; to practise vocabulary; to do exercises;

2. Developing: to develop reading and writing skills; critical thinking.

3. Educational: to enlarge pupils’ outlook about the fairy - tales

Lesson type: combined

The expecting results: Children know the difference between regular and irregular verbs;

Equipment: pictures, notebook, projector, cards with exercises, handouts

Outline:

I. Orgmoment

• greetings

• dividing into groups “Favourite song”

II. Introduction the theme of the lesson

• Prezi – presentation “Heroes of the fairy - tales”

III. Warm up

• “Concept – cards (Past Simple Tense)”

IV. Reading “Goldfish”

• Pre – reading activity:

Scene from the fairy tale “Goldfish”

Detailed reading

Individual task

Matching

V. Energizer

VI. Writing – appropriate ending to the fairy – tale (Past Simple Tense)

VII. Wrap up

VIII. Homework

Procedure:

I. Orgmoment

1. Greetings

2. Tr. divides children into 3 groups (favourite song)

II. Introduction the theme of the lesson

Children fill in the crossword with the help of the Prezi – presentation “Heroes of the fairy - tales”, find the keyword, answer teacher’s questions, make a conclusion about the theme of the lesson (The Past Simple Tense)

III. Warm up

• Children in groups work out the concept – cards “Past Simple Tense”

Children in group remember and write their own concepts which connect to the theme (regular and irregular verbs, signal words, schemes of narrative, interrogative and affirmative sentences)

Children should justify their choice.

Tr. presents her own concept – card and children should find two mistakes and explain their choice.

IV. Reading “Goldfish”

• Pre – reading activity:

Scene from the fairy tale “Goldfish” – Children not only watch the scene but they should listen and fill in the gaps in their worksheets. Next they check each other looking at the Prezi – slide with the right answers and put the points

• Detailed reading

Children get the worksheets with the full text.

The first task: look through the text and cross all verbs in Past Simple Tense – regular with the ed ending and irregular in V2

The second task: count the verbs in each line

The third task: reading out regular and irregular verbs

The fourth task: answer the teacher’s questions about the fairy – tale

How many heroes are there?

Who is the author of the fairy – tale?

• Individual task

A pupil tells some interesting facts about the author of the fairy – tale and children fill in the table, where some information is missed. Next children should answer the questions

• Matching

Children should match pictures with the appropriate sentences. They should change the verbs in Past simple tense and read the right sentences

V. Energizer

• Ps do the Prezi-energizer “I am the music man”.

VI. Writing

• SS do exercises on consolidation:

I. Children should choose the hat (green, white, black)

II. In groups children should write their own ending of the fairy - tale in according to the selected hat

III. Children should read their endings

VII. Wrap up

• Summing up of the lesson

• Evaluation\ self – analysis (ladder of success)

VIII. Homework

Learn by heart the verbs

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