MELENTA SOLOMON 10 October 2022 A2 Pre - intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type: Grammar
Lesson Topic: Past daily schedule
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
Recognise and use the past continuous tense, in order to have a Talked with a group about what their daily schedules entail and
conversation with their fellow learners about what they do in their compare differences. Students will also learn to have
daily lives at specific times. conversations more naturally using the past continuous tense.
Example sentence: At 6pm last night I was watching TV/ speaking to
a friend on the phone/ having dinner.
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, Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Students may find it difficult to grasp the concept of past 1. I will use the timeline representation (fig.1) to demonstrate
continuous tense, as it happens at a specific time but does the past continuous tense, which should help them have a
not tell us when the action began or ended. better understanding of the target structure.
2. Considering that I will be teaching young learners aged 11 to 2. I will keep students engaged and motivated by doing lots of
12 and the lesson being taught is on grammar, I anticipate activities and group work so that they are always
that some students may get bored and lose interest in the participating and do not have a chance to lose focus.
lesson.
3. When teaching form, I will pay special attention to
3. For French learners there can be a problem contractions and question forms, using many different
forming questions in English. In French it’s possible to form a examples and an activity to ensure that students fully derive
question simply by adding a question mark at the end of a their own understanding of the grammar being taught.
statement whereas in English we need to use an auxiliary
verb.
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