Level 3 Assignment A – Lesson Plan
Class: A2 pre-intermediate 10-12 years old Date: 1/28/2025 Topic: past continuous tense for interrupted actions
Number of students: 12 Length of lesson: 60 minutes
Lesson type: Grammar (face-to-face with online adjustments included)
Lesson aim: To increase active usage of the past continuous for interrupted actions.
Lesson objectives:
⚫ students will be familiar with the uses of past continuous tense for interrupted actions and how to use past continuous and simple past in
one sentence with the conjunction (when).
⚫ students will be familiar with form of past continuous tense for interrupted actions with when
⚫ students will be asked questions and will have to answer in past continuous tense for interrupted actions orally.
Materials and equipment: Assumed knowledge:
• White board, board pens, paper, pencils and pens.
• Projector 1) Students already know the past simple and past continuous
• Controlled practice worksheets (gap fill activity) tenses separately, but not how to use them together in one
• Pictures sentence.
• Computer
2) Students are already familiar with relevant grammatical
• Internet
• Speakers terminology (subject, verb, etc.).
Anticipated problems: Solutions:
1) Students may confuse when to use was/were. 1) Highlight the difference in the presentation and practice in the
2) The students all speak the same L1 and so may be reluctant to speak controlled practice task.
English. 2) Remind students to only speak English in class as needed.
3) Running out of time for the plenary. 3) Watch the time throughout the lesson and make minor adjustments as
required.
, Stage Stage Aim Timing Interaction Teacher Activity Student Activity
Warmer
To set the 4-5 min Whole class
context of As students enter the class ,I greet them. Students write down on paper what they
the lesson I then pin up 2 pictures of the people doing think the people were doing in past
different tasks. One of them is showing calling and continuous tense and simple past.
the other is showing watching TV.
Students enter and are asked to write 2 sentences
for these pictures. For watching TV, it should be
past continuous and for calling, simple past.
Students work in groups to decide which
After all the students wrote them, I then divide the sentences are correct.
Pair work
students into groups and ask each other to read
6 min what they wrote.
Two students will then be given a board pen and
will be indicated that they should write what the
group decided on the board. Students come to the front of the board to
If the student's sentence is wrong, let the class write sentences under each of the pictures.
correct it together.
Class: A2 pre-intermediate 10-12 years old Date: 1/28/2025 Topic: past continuous tense for interrupted actions
Number of students: 12 Length of lesson: 60 minutes
Lesson type: Grammar (face-to-face with online adjustments included)
Lesson aim: To increase active usage of the past continuous for interrupted actions.
Lesson objectives:
⚫ students will be familiar with the uses of past continuous tense for interrupted actions and how to use past continuous and simple past in
one sentence with the conjunction (when).
⚫ students will be familiar with form of past continuous tense for interrupted actions with when
⚫ students will be asked questions and will have to answer in past continuous tense for interrupted actions orally.
Materials and equipment: Assumed knowledge:
• White board, board pens, paper, pencils and pens.
• Projector 1) Students already know the past simple and past continuous
• Controlled practice worksheets (gap fill activity) tenses separately, but not how to use them together in one
• Pictures sentence.
• Computer
2) Students are already familiar with relevant grammatical
• Internet
• Speakers terminology (subject, verb, etc.).
Anticipated problems: Solutions:
1) Students may confuse when to use was/were. 1) Highlight the difference in the presentation and practice in the
2) The students all speak the same L1 and so may be reluctant to speak controlled practice task.
English. 2) Remind students to only speak English in class as needed.
3) Running out of time for the plenary. 3) Watch the time throughout the lesson and make minor adjustments as
required.
, Stage Stage Aim Timing Interaction Teacher Activity Student Activity
Warmer
To set the 4-5 min Whole class
context of As students enter the class ,I greet them. Students write down on paper what they
the lesson I then pin up 2 pictures of the people doing think the people were doing in past
different tasks. One of them is showing calling and continuous tense and simple past.
the other is showing watching TV.
Students enter and are asked to write 2 sentences
for these pictures. For watching TV, it should be
past continuous and for calling, simple past.
Students work in groups to decide which
After all the students wrote them, I then divide the sentences are correct.
Pair work
students into groups and ask each other to read
6 min what they wrote.
Two students will then be given a board pen and
will be indicated that they should write what the
group decided on the board. Students come to the front of the board to
If the student's sentence is wrong, let the class write sentences under each of the pictures.
correct it together.
