Minh Đức Secondary School
The Foreign Languages Department
Week: 23
Classes: 6/4
Teacher-in-charge: Ms. Bui Thi Thanh Hang
Trainee teachers: Tran Hoang Lan
Date of preparation: February 4th 2024
Date of teaching: February 22nd 2024
LESSON PLAN
ENGLISH 6 - Friends Plus
UNIT 6: SPORTS
Lesson 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS
Past simple: affirmative - Past time expressions (page 77)
I.
OBJECTIVES
1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, the students will have:
- identified the differences between the regular verbs and irregular
verbs of past simple tense.
- practiced pronunciation of -ed ending sounds.
- created their own sentences in past simple tense using past time
expressions.
- been able to ask and answer about events in the past.
2. Skills: Speaking, listening, reading, writing.
3. Attitude: Students know how to learn English in the right way.
4. Competences: Communication, self-learning capability, creative
capacity, ability to use language.
II.
PREPARATION
1. Teacher: textbook, lesson plan, black board, chalk, pictures,
PowerPoint slides, TV, speaker, mini boards, etc.
2. Students: books, notebooks, handouts, etc.
III.
TEACHING METHODS
Communicative approach, group Ss’ and T’s activities, teaching methods with
game, teaching methods by visual, teaching methods by practicing, discussion
group, technical present, etc.
IV.
PROCEDURE
1. Check-up: during the lesson
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2. New lesson:
Steps &
Timing
Warm-up
(5 minutes)
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
GAME: “Catch the pictures,
Get the words”
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Teacher introduces the
name of the game.
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Teacher divides the class
into 4 groups.
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Teacher checks the groups
through some requests.
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Content
Question: What did
Tom play last week?
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Students listen
carefully to the
teacher.
1. He played ______
last week.
2. He played ______
last week.
Teacher explains the rules
of the game: “Look at the
pictures and tell me what
kinds of sports Tom
played last week. There
are 6 kinds of sports in
total. The students need to
raise their hands as fast
as possible to guess the
correct name of the sport.
The fastest group will
receive 1 point for each
correct answer.”
3. He played ______
last week.
Teacher asks the class
ICQs:
1. How many kinds of
sports do we have?
2. What do you have to do
when you want to
answer, shout out the
answer or raise your
hand as fast as possible
to answer?
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Teacher shows all the
sentences on the slide.
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Students answer the
questions.
4. He played ______
last week.
5. He played ______
______ last week.
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Students pay
attention to the slide.
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Teacher asks the students
some questions:
1. Is Tom playing sports
now?
2. When did Tom play these
kinds of sports?
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Teacher leads in the
lesson: “Today we will
learn about the past
simple tense”.
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Presentation Past simple: affirmative
- Teacher shows 2 dialogs
( 16 mins)
on the slides and asks the
students to identify which
one is in the present
simple tense.
Students answer the
questions.
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Students choose 1
dialog.
Teacher asks the students
to tell the differences
between the verbs in these
2 sentences: “I play with
my toys every day after
school.” and “We played
volleyball.”
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Students tell the
differences.
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Teacher asks the students:
“Is dialog 2 in the simple
present tense?”
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Teacher says: “dialog 2 is
in the past simple tense.”
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Teacher shows a sample
structure of present simple
tense on the slide, then
asks the students to write
on the board the structure
of past simple tense:
affirmative based on
dialog 2.
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Teacher shows the
structure of the past
simple tense on the slide
and asks the students to
note down in 30 seconds.
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Students answer the
question.
Suggested answers:
1. basketball
2. badminton
3. football
4. rugby
5. table tennis
Past simple: affirmative
Dialog 1:
Jenny: Hi John! How are
you today?
John: I’m good. Thanks!
I play with my toys every
day after school.
Jenny: That sounds fun.
Dialog 2:
Mary: Where were you
yesterday, Tom?
Tom: I was on the beach
with my family.
Mary: What did you do
there?
Tom: We played
volleyball. Then we went
swimming in the ocean.
Sample structure of
Students form the
present simple tense:
structure and write it
on the board.
TO BE:
S + am/is/are + O.
VERBS:
S + V -s/es + O.
Students note down
the structure in the
handouts.
Structure of past simple
tense
TO BE:
S + was/were + O.
REGULAR VERBS:
S + V-ed + O.
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Teacher shows these
sentences “We played
volleyball. Then we went
swimming in the ocean.”
and asks: “Do the verbs in
past simple tense always
end in -ed?”
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Teacher says “There are 2
kinds of verbs in past
simple tense: regular and
irregular verb”
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Teacher gives examples
of some irregular verbs.
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Teacher asks the students
to repeat the verbs.
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Students repeat the
words.
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Teacher asks the students
to note down the verbs in
30 sec.
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Students note down
the verbs.
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Teacher shows the
structure of the past
simple tense again.
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Teacher checks students'
understanding through
Exercise 1. (15 sec)
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Students give
answers orally.
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Students answer the
question.
IRREGULAR VERBS:
1. do - did
2. go - went
3. win - won
4. eat - ate
5. swim - swam
6. come - came
7. give - gave
8. drink - drank
9. sleep - slept
10. meet - met
11. keep - kept
12. read - read
Exercise 1: Look at the
examples and complete
Rules 1–3 with have got
or haven’t got.
1. Regular verbs
______ past
simple forms
ending in -ed.
2. Irregular verbs
______ past
simple forms
ending in -ed.
3. Verbs in the past
simple ______ the
same form for I,
you, he, she, it, we
and they.
Suggested answers:
1. have got
2. haven’t got
3. have got
Past time expressions
Past time expressions
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Teacher shows a sentence
“We enjoyed the game
yesterday.” on the slide
and underline the word
“yesterday”.
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Teacher asks
1. “Is yesterday a
verb, a noun or a
time expression?”
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Students give
answers orally.
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Teacher shows 4 other
sentences on the slide and
asks the students to
underline time
expressions in 30 sec.
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Students give
answers orally.
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Teacher shows all the
answers and asks the
students questions:
1. “Are these time
expressions in the
present or in the
past?”
2. “Do we put “ago”
before or after a
past time
expression?”
3. “Do we put “last”
before or after a
past time
expression?”
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Students give
answers orally.
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Teacher shows the
timeline and asks the
students to mark the past
simple tense on the
timeline.
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Students mark the
past simple tense on
the timeline.
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Underline the time
expressions in the
following sentences.
1. We enjoyed the
game yesterday.
2. Daisy visited her
grandparents last
weekend.
3. James bought a
new baseball cap
two days ago.
4. She won a gold
medal in June
2017.
5. He moved to
Hanoi when he
was 12.
Suggested answers:
1. yesterday
2. last weekend
3. two days ago
4. in June 2017
5. when he was 12
Practice
( 10 mins)
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Teacher asks the students:
1. “Is the action in
the past simple
tense completed or
not?”
2. “Does the action in
the past simple
tense take place at
a specific time in
the past or not?”
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Students give
answers orally.
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Teacher shows the usage
of the past simple tense on
the slide.
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Students note down
the usage of the past
simple tense in 15
sec.
Exercise 2
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Teacher asks 1 student to
read aloud the
requirement of Exercise 2.
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The student who is
asked reads aloud
the requirement.
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Teacher asks 1 student to
read aloud the study
strategy.
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The student who is
asked reads aloud
the study strategy.
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Teacher asks the students
to look through the text
and asks CCQs:
1. “How many blanks
are there in the
text?”
2. “Do you fill in the
blanks with verbs
in present simple
or past simple?”
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Students give
answers orally.
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Teacher asks the students
to work in groups and
write down the answers
on the mini-board in 1.5
mins.
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Students work in
groups and write
down the answers.
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Usage of past simple
tense:
The past simple tense is
used to talk about
completed actions that
took place at a specific
time in the past.
Exercise 2: Read the
Study Strategy. Then
complete the Young
sports superstars text
with the past simple
form of the verbs in
blue.
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Teacher asks each group
to stick the mini-boards
on the blackboard to do
cross-checking.
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Students stick the
mini-boards on the
blackboard and do
cross-checking.
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Teacher shows the correct
answers on the slide and
asks the students to score
the other groups' answers.
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Students score the
other groups'
answers.
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Teacher asks the students
to note down the correct
answers in the handouts in
30 sec.
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Students not down
the correct answers.
Pronunciation: -ed endings
Exercise 3
Exercise 3: Listen and
repeat the words.
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Teacher plays the audio
for the students to repeat
the words.
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The students listen
to the audio and
repeat the words.
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Teacher asks:
1. “How many ways
are there to
pronounce -ed
ending sounds?”
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Students give
answers orally.
2. “Which letters
come before the ed ending in list
3?”
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Suggested answers:
1. started
2. went
3. won
4. competed
5. became
6. scored
7. played
8. trained
9. gave
Teacher shows the
summary of the
pronunciation: -ed ending
sounds.
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1. /t/: practised,
watched
2. /d/: travelled,
played
3. /ɪd/: started,
decided
Suggested answers:
1. 3 ways
2. letters “t” and “d”
Summary
1. /t/: /p/, /f/, /s/, /k/,
Students pay
/ʃ/, /ʧ/
attention to the slide.
e.g. stopped,
laughed, kissed,
talked, brushed,
watched.
2. /ɪd/: /t/, /d/
e.g. wanted, ended
3. /d/: all other
sounds
e.g. lived, played
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Production
( 10 mins)
Exercise 5
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Teacher shows the KEY
PHRASES to remind the
students of some past time
expressions.
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Students pay
attention to the slide.
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Students listen
carefully to the
teacher.
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Students work in
groups.
Teacher models the
sample: “I last played
sports on Saturday.”
Teacher asks the students
to work in groups to
complete 5 sentences of
Exercise 5 in 1.5mins.
Mystery box
Questions:
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Teacher introduces a
game called “Mystery
box”.
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Teacher gives
instructions: “Pick a letter
and answer the question
in 10s. Then you must
choose: keep the box or
give the box to the other
team. Be careful that the
points in the box can be
GOOD or BAD.”
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Exercise 5: Write
sentences using the past
simple and the Key
Phrases.
Students listen
carefully to the
teacher.
A. Complete this
sentence “I first
(swim) in a pool
…”
B. Complete this
sentence “I first
(come) to this
school …”
C. Lucky letter
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Students participate
in the game.
Teacher monitors the
game.
D. Complete this
sentence “I last
(do) my English
homework …”
E. Complete this
sentence “I last
(see) a good film
…”
F. Complete this
sentence “I first
(watch) the
Olympics …”
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Teacher shows the
answers for the students to
check.
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Students check and
correct their
answers.
Suggested answers:
Students’ own answers
Consolidation
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(3 mins)
Teacher asks the students
some questions to
consolidate the lesson:
1. What is the
grammar point we
learn today?
Suggested answers:
Students’ own answers
2. How many kinds of
verbs are there in
the simple past
tense?
3. How many ways
are there to
pronounce -ed
ending sounds?
4. Can you list some
past time
expressions?
Homework
(1 min)
V.
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Learn by heart the irregular verbs in past simple tense.
Practice pronunciation of -ed ending sounds at home.
Prepare a new lesson: “Speaking” (page 78).
Self-evaluation
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