Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
Aimee 04/07/22 Pre-intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Grammar lesson
Lesson Topic:
“What I did after school”
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…
Identify and understand the past continuous tense in order to Will have told each other what they did after school the previous
explain to each other what they did when they got home from day and compare their activities with each other.
school yesterday.
Example sentence: I was doing my homework at 6pm last night/I
was not doing my homework at 6pm last night.
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,Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. The concept of grammar can be overwhelming and might 1. I will change the way I approach grammar. Instead of saying
demotivate students. “today we are going to look at the structure of the
2. The past continuous tense may confuse students as they grammatical forms concerning the past”, I will rephrase the
might confuse the past simple with the present continuous. sentence and say “today we will be talking about the
3. Since the students are aged 11 and 12, they may lack the past/about what we did after school yesterday.
motivation that is needed to learn grammar as they have 2. I will write example sentences on the board, explaining the
extrinsic motivations. different tenses as well as a well-constructed timeline to
4. Since I will be teaching a class that has students from visually demonstrate the concept. I will also include activities
different countries (France and Italy), students may resort that will encourage students to use the past continuous
back to their L1. Students from Italy may talk to each other tense.
in Italian and students from France may speak to each other 3. I will include a lot of exciting activities so that the concept of
in French. grammar doesn’t bore the students.
4. When pairing up students or putting them in groups, I will
make sure to separate students who have the same native
language. I will also have an “only English” rule in the
classroom.
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, Target language analysis:
1. What is the use or function of this The past continuous tense is used to describe events or actions that took place in the past and were still
language? (Include a timeline if occurring when another event occurred.
appropriate)
Past Now Future
I was doing my homework at 6pm last night.
Or
At 6pm last night, I was doing my homework.
2. In which context are you introducing We will be discussing daily routines and what students did after school to see how productive each
the language? student’s day was.
e.g., I was making a sandwich, I was reading a book, I was doing homework, we were eating dinner etc.
3. Which concept checking questions will
you ask to ensure students understand I was doing my homework at 6pm last night.
the meaning?
1. Did you do your homework straight after school this afternoon? (No)
2. What time did you do your homework? (At 6pm last night)
3. Were you eating at 6pm last night? (No)
4. Were you only doing your homework at 6pm? (Yes)
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Aimee 04/07/22 Pre-intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Grammar lesson
Lesson Topic:
“What I did after school”
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…
Identify and understand the past continuous tense in order to Will have told each other what they did after school the previous
explain to each other what they did when they got home from day and compare their activities with each other.
school yesterday.
Example sentence: I was doing my homework at 6pm last night/I
was not doing my homework at 6pm last night.
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,Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. The concept of grammar can be overwhelming and might 1. I will change the way I approach grammar. Instead of saying
demotivate students. “today we are going to look at the structure of the
2. The past continuous tense may confuse students as they grammatical forms concerning the past”, I will rephrase the
might confuse the past simple with the present continuous. sentence and say “today we will be talking about the
3. Since the students are aged 11 and 12, they may lack the past/about what we did after school yesterday.
motivation that is needed to learn grammar as they have 2. I will write example sentences on the board, explaining the
extrinsic motivations. different tenses as well as a well-constructed timeline to
4. Since I will be teaching a class that has students from visually demonstrate the concept. I will also include activities
different countries (France and Italy), students may resort that will encourage students to use the past continuous
back to their L1. Students from Italy may talk to each other tense.
in Italian and students from France may speak to each other 3. I will include a lot of exciting activities so that the concept of
in French. grammar doesn’t bore the students.
4. When pairing up students or putting them in groups, I will
make sure to separate students who have the same native
language. I will also have an “only English” rule in the
classroom.
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, Target language analysis:
1. What is the use or function of this The past continuous tense is used to describe events or actions that took place in the past and were still
language? (Include a timeline if occurring when another event occurred.
appropriate)
Past Now Future
I was doing my homework at 6pm last night.
Or
At 6pm last night, I was doing my homework.
2. In which context are you introducing We will be discussing daily routines and what students did after school to see how productive each
the language? student’s day was.
e.g., I was making a sandwich, I was reading a book, I was doing homework, we were eating dinner etc.
3. Which concept checking questions will
you ask to ensure students understand I was doing my homework at 6pm last night.
the meaning?
1. Did you do your homework straight after school this afternoon? (No)
2. What time did you do your homework? (At 6pm last night)
3. Were you eating at 6pm last night? (No)
4. Were you only doing your homework at 6pm? (Yes)
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