LESSON PLAN
UNIT 10: DESTINATIONS
GRAMMAR
Ss’ level & characteristics: Grade 10, Pre-intermediate level; the majority of students are smart
and active; some are shy and passive.
Teaching time: February 2022
I.
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- describe past vacations
- understand and use Simple Past tenses
II.
Recent work: Students have finished unit opener and Vocabulary.
III.
Anticipated Problems and Solutions:
Students may have difficulty in regular and irregular verbs in simple past. The teacher
may help them by elicit examples from the class and write them on the board.
IV.
Approach and teaching aids/ materials:
Communicative approach
Blackboard and markers, TV screen, microphone, Explore New Worlds grade 10 book,
PowerPoint slides, lesson plan, audio
V.
Procedure: 45 minutes
Lesson steps
Suggested
time
Teacher’s notes
Warm up
1 min
Greeting
Say Good morning / afternoon, class.
(Now, sit down, class.)
7 mins
Prepare a list, in random order, of students’ names.
Tell students to write three sentences in the simple past
about things they did yesterday. Then, play a memory
game. Call on the first student on your list to say a
sentence. For example, Yesterday, I bought a new coat.
The second student repeats that sentence and then adds
their own sentence. For example, Yesterday, Lee
bought a new coat, and I read the newspaper. Each
student continues in turn until one makes a mistake.
Then, that student starts over with a new sentence.
Presentation
9 mins
Introduce or review the simple past. Say, What did we
do in class yesterday? We practiced... / We learned...
Elicit more examples from the class with regular verbs
like talked or listened. Point out the two kinds of verbs
in the chart. Tell students that most verbs are regular,
but some are irregular, which means they do not
follow the general rules of grammar. Irregular verbs do
not end with -ed in the simple past; they all have
