LESSON PLAN

Date: the 22nd of October 2008

Teacher: Mihaila Elena
School: Scoala “Petre Tutea” Boteni
Form: 8th grade, New Hotline Intermediate, Student’s Book- Oxford University Press
Lesson: Present Perfect Tense Simple
Unit: Unit 2-Travellers
Estimated time: 50 minutes
Lesson aims:
 To practice how do we form present perfect tense simple
 To put a verb into present perfect tense simple, positive, negative and
interrogative forms
 To form positive, negative and interrogative statements with present perfect tense
simple
Teaching materials:
 Book
 Blackboard
 Worksheets
 Dictionary
Type of lesson: lesson of acquisition
Strategies:
 Pair-work
 Group-work
 Gap filling exercises
 Some didactic methods ( “turul galeriei”, “ciorchinele” )
Skills:
 Writing
 Listening
 Speaking

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 PROCEDURE

Activity 1- Warm-up

The Teacher greets the class and the Students greet back. The Teacher asks for absentees.
The Students on duty name the absentees if necessary.

The interaction: Teacher-Students

Estimated time: 1 minute

Activity 2- Checking up the homework

The Teacher asks for homework. The students answer and say that their homework was
exercise 2 on page 18 and exercise 4 on page 19. The Teacher asks the Students to read
the homework and the Students read the homework. The Teacher asks the Students to
write the homework on the blackboard if there are any problems with it. The Teacher
corrects and explains when necessary.

The interaction: Teacher-Students

Students-Students
Estimated time: 5 minutes

Activity 3- Introducing the new lesson. Completing a puzzle

The Teacher divides the class into four groups. Then the Teacher gives each group a piece
of paper with a puzzle written on it. The teacher tells the Students that it is a contest and
they will have to complete the puzzle as fast as they can, so that their group wins. Who
finishes first wins. The students will receive a diploma for the fastest group of students.
After finishing the puzzle, one student from the winning group is asked to solve the
puzzle at the blackboard.
Then after seeing the result of the puzzle the Teacher asks the Students how the new
lesson is called.
The Students respond and the Teacher writes on the blackboard the title of the new
lesson: Present Perfect Tense Simple.

The interaction: Teacher-Students

Students-Students
Estimated time: 5 minutes

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Activity 4- Presenting the new lesson

The Teacher writes on the blackboard how do we form the Present Perfect Tense Simple
at affirmative, negative and interrogative forms, giving examples. The Students write the
notes on their note books.
After that the Teacher writes on the blackboard the types of actions that Present Perfect
Tense Simple is used for and explains them to the Students, illustrating them with
examples.
The Students write on their note books what the Teacher writes on the blackboardand
listens to the explanations.

The interaction : Teacher- Students

Estimated Time: 15 minutes

Activity 5- “Turul Galeriei”

The Teacher divides the class into four groups. Then the Teacher gives each group a large
piece of paper and a marker. The Teacher tells each group to conjugate a certain verb into
the Present Perfect Tense Simple ( affirmative, negative and interrogative forms ).
The Teacher asks the students to work together and to help each other. After finishing, the
Teacher asks the Students to put their papers on the classroom’s walls so that everybody
could see them.
The Teacher tells the Students from each group to rotate and to visit each work and to
make notes and to correct if it is necessary.
After doing that each group of Students goes to its work and observes the notes made by
their colleagues.
This activity ends with conclusions.

The interaction: Teacher-Students

Students-Students
Estimated time: 10 minutes

Activity 6- Solving exercises- worksheet

Each Student is given a worksheet with some exercises in which they have to put the
verbs into the Present Perfect Tense Simple.
This activity is performed individually.
The Teacher tells the Students that they have to finish the activity during a certain period
of time. After finishing the Teacher asks four Students to be the Teachers and to correct
their colleagues.
The Students who finish first will give their worksheets to the Teacher to correct them
and after that they will correct their colleagues and give them marks.

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The interaction: Teacher-Students
Students-Students
Estimated time:10 minutes

Activity 7- The feed back of the lesson

The Teacher gives the Students a piece of paper, in the middle of which it is written in a
circle: “Present Perfect Tense Simple”.
The Teacher does the same thing on the blackboard. The Teacher asks the Students about
Present Perfect Tense Simple and then tells them to write on the paper what comes to
their mind. The ideas are written on the blackboard and on their papers. The Teacher
encourages the Students to express their ideas.

The interaction: Teacher-Students

Estimated time: 3 minutes

Activity 8- Assigning homework

The Teacher communicates the Students their homework.

Then the Teacher writes it on the blackboard and tells the Students to write it on their
note books.

The interaction: Teacher-Students

Estimated time: 1 minute