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LESSON PLAN: What did you do yesterday?

FOCUS: Past simple

TIME: 45 50 minutes
LEVEL: Pre-intermediate

MAIN OBJECTIVES After this lesson, Ss will be able to ask and answer
questions using simple past tense.

LANGUAGE
Practice positive, negative and question forms in the past simple.

Warm-up Activity:
On the board write some verbs in the simple past form:
showed
brought
came
bought
got up
rode
ate
played
gave
ran
listened
read
watched
got
broke
spoke
talked
cut
stopped
had
saw
told

Then, divide Ss into two teams, standing at the back of the classroom.
Give each team a different colored board marker.
Tell Ss that when I say a verb in its infinitive, one person from each
team must run to the board and circle the same verb in its past simple
form.
The first person to circle the correct verb gets a point for their team.
Each student isn't allowed to do it again unless all his team members
participated.
The winner is the team with the most points when all the words have
been circled.

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PRESENTATION

5-10 mnts

1- On the board write:

I play football
Yesterday

Im playing football
I played football

Ask students which ending is correct. Explain that we use the past simple when
talking about things which we did yesterday or in the past.

2- On the board write:

Yesterday
I play football.

I played football.

I watch television.

I _____ television

Ask students what the missing word is.

Ask students to put two or three other sentences into the past simple until you are sure they
get the idea.

3- On the board write:

I played football.

I didnt play football.

I watched television.

I didnt watch television.

Read what is written on the board, shaking your head when reading the negative sentences
to indicate that these things did not happen.

4- On the board write:

I read a book.

I didnt ______ read a book.

I bought an ice cream.

I ______ buy an ice cream.

I saw my friend.

I ______ ______ my friend.

Ask students to fill in the blanks.

Do more examples orally until you are sure students understand.

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5- On the board write:

you / play football / yesterday?
Ask students to make these words into a question.
Using other prompts like the one above, ask students to form questions in the past simple.

COMMUNICATION PRACTICE ACTIVITY (1)

10 mnts.

Hand out a copy of Lucy and Michael to each student.

COMMUNICATION PRACTICE ACTIVITY (2)

10 mnts.

On the board write:

do / yesterday / did / what / you ?
Ask the students to rearrange the words to form a question.

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Hand out a copy of Jacks day to each student.

Show students the picture of Jack and explain that he was asked the question
What did you do yesterday? and this is his answer.
Read the text at a normal speed and tell the students to tick the things that Jack did
yesterday.

PRODUCTION ACTIVITY
10 mnts
Ask a strong student What did you do yesterday?
Ask another student Did you watch television yesterday?

On the board write:

Did you _______ yesterday?
Yes, I did. No, I didnt.
Ask individual students questions using Did you _______ yesterday?
Elicit Yes, I did and No, I didnt.
Hand out a copy of the Questionnaire to each student.
Tell them first to fill in the You column.
Then tell the students to find a partner and ask them questions to fill in the Partner
1 column. Students then change partners to complete the Partner 2 column.

WRAP-UP ACTIVITY
10 mnts
Hand out a copy of Correct sentence for students to complete in pairs.

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Notes:
LESSON PLAN: What did you do yesterday?
TEACHING Read this list of verbs:
NOTES
On the board write some verbs in the simple past form:
WARM-UP
8 show
12 bring
16 come 7 buy
3 get up
ACTIVITY 4 ride 13 eat
9 play
1 give
11 run 5 listen
17 watch
19 get 15 break
2 speak
10 talk
20 have
21 see
22 tell

18 read
6 cut

14 stop

to model verb (write)

PRESENTATION

COMMUNICATION
PRACTICE
ACTIVITY

This presentation revises the form of the past simple rather than teaches it
from scratch.

Before students read the text, ask them to look at the pictures and ask them
questions about what they can see.
Pre-teach the word climbing frame.

Answer:
Yesterday Lucy and Michael got up late because they didnt have to go to
school. They watched television while they ate their breakfast.
After breakfast they went to the park, they both ran to the climbing frame,
but Michael got there first. They played on the climbing frame for a long
time.
In the afternoon Lucy and Michael went to a birthday party. It was their
grandmothers birthday. Lucy gave her grandmother a present and a card and
later they all ate cake.

COMMUNICATI
ON

Before doing the listening activity, ask the students about the boy in the
picture, eg. how old do they think he is.

PRACTICE

Tell the students that you will read the text more than once, so it doesnt
matter if they do not understand everything the first time.

ACTIVITY

Text:
What did I do yesterday? Well, I got up really early, and I went out and
bought the newspaper for my father.

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Then at ten oclock I went to the park with my friend Peter, we played
basketball, then we bought an ice cream, and we rode our bikes home.
In the afternoon I watched television, then I went to my bedroom and did my
homework.
In the evening I listened to music and read my book. Then, at nine oclock I
went to bed.

PRODUCTION
ACTIVITY

Monitor to check that students are using the target language.

If time permits, students could write a few short sentences about the results
of their questionnaire as a follow up activity.
Eg. Daisy watched television, saw her friend and rode a bike yesterday, but
she didnt go to school or do her homework.

WRAP-UP
ACTIVITY

Do the first exercise on the board to show the class an example.