This document outlines the lesson plan for a secondary level English class focusing on the past tense of the verb "to be". The 80-minute lesson plan includes the following: - Warm up activity revising past tense verbs using an audio recording about a student's past school experience. - Presentation having students read and analyze examples using affirmative, negative and interrogative forms of past tense verbs. - Developmental activities where students complete exercises practicing forming sentences using past tense verbs, compare experiences from this year and four years ago, and write a letter responding to a classmate's email. - Closure having students review and correct the activities from the lesson.

1. I.F.D.C. LENGUAS VIVAS
TALLER DE PRÁCTICA DOCENTE 2018
Tutora: Prof. Aurelia Velázquez
ALUMNO PRACTICANTE: POEY CLAUDIA RAQUEL
Período de Práctica: Nivel Secundario
Institución Educativa: Instituto Manuel Belgrano
Dirección: Calle Sarmiento 436
Sala / Grado / Año - sección: 2° año – TT
Cantidad de alumnos: 32
Nivel lingüístico del curso: Elementary
Tipo de Planificación: Clase – diaria
Unidad Temática: Some time ago...
Clase Nº: 3
Fecha: Wednesday 16th
Hora: 16:00 a 17:20
Duración de la clase: 80’.
Fecha de primera entrega:
• Teaching points: To be past : affirmative- negative – interrogative
There was / There were affirmative, negative and interrogative form
 Aims: during this lesson , learners will be able to
- Develop their communicative and writing skills answering about past activities..
-Recognize the use of the past form of to be when they talk about past actions.
 Language focus.
LEXIS FUNCTION STRUCTURE PRONUNCIATIO
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REVISION Past to be and
There was /
there were all
forms.
Talk and write about past
activities.
I was at home yesterday.
I wasn´t at school .
Were you at school? Yes, I was.
No, I wasn´t
Was there a cinema fifty years ago?
Yes, there was/ No, there wasn´t.
NEW
 Teaching approach:
I will use CLIL approach because students review the topics in a coherent context.
 Materials and resources:
Copies- board- cd player-
 Pedagogical use of ICT in class:
 Seating arrangement:
Students will sit on their chairs, they will stand up to greet as every class and when they need to come to the
desk to ask something or to complete some exercise on the board.
 Cooperative work

2. They work in a cooperative way when they work in pairs.
 Assessment:
I will assess them during the class when they use the past of to be in the correct way: affirmative, negative and
interrogative form.
Routine: 5’
Purpose:
-To greet students.
When I go into the classroom, students are sitting on their chairs, they stand up and we greet.
Me: “Hello, everybody, how are you today?
Students: “Hello, teacher, we are fine!
Me: Great, I´m fine too!
Transition: Wonderful, Let´s do the first activity!
Warm-up 10’:
- To get students into the mood of work.
- To revise some of the contents the students learnt in previous classes that help them to review the
previous topics.
- I will say S that they are going to listen to a recording about Emily´s mail.
- First you will listen to a mail!
- After that students listen to the mail , I will ask them some questions:
1) Where was Emily last year?
2) Was she at the same school?
3) Was art her favorite subject?
4) Were there eighteen students in the class?
Transition: Ok , fantastic!
Presentation (10’)
-To revise the topics.
-I will give Ss a copy of the mail and they are going to work with it.

3. - S will read it individually when they will finish they will do a socialization about the meaning of it.
- After, they will match the topics 1 and 2 with the correct paragraphs A and B of the mail.
1) My school last year. 2) My school this year.
- T will ask them which paragraph is in past tense? To encourage them to answer B.
- After, S only will read paragraph B and they have to find the past sentences of these sentences and
underline or highlight the verbs:
NOW LAST YEAR
 I am at this school. I was at this school too.
 There are thirty two students. There were thirty four students
 Mrs. Andrea is my teacher. Mrs. Inés was my teacher
 Are you at the same classroom? Were you at the same classroom?
Transition: Ok, very good now we will work on yours copybooks! (enthusiastically)
Development (15)
Purpose:
-To practise the points.
Activity 1
- S will paste the copy of the mail in their copybooks and S will read it to complete this chart.
- Read it and underline the past verbs that you find in it.
Activity 2
- After S will read about Emily´s school, two Ss come to the blackboard to complete it.
THIS YEAR LAST YEAR
Name of Emily´s school
Number of children in her class.
Number of teachers.
Favourite Subject.
Activity 3
- S will read it again and they will correct these paragraph:
Last year I was at Lane Secondary School. We were twenty five in my class. There weren´t nine
teachers. My favourite teacher was my art teacher.

4. - When S will finish one of them come to the blackboard to correct it. S will write the correct paragraph.
Activity 4
- Write a reply to Emily. Tell her about this year and four years ago in the elementary school. Include two
main paragraphs. Use this writing plan to help you:
Dear Emily.
Thanks for your mail!
My school this year is ………………………………. The name of my school is ………………………………………..It is in
………………………………….Street, in Macachín It is …………………….., …………………………and …………………….
My best teacher is ………………………………., she / he is my ………………………………………
My favourite subjects are …………………………… and ……………………….
We are………………………….students. There are …………………………girls and ……………………………boys.
Four years ago my school was ………………………………….. It was in ………………………….Street. It was
…………………………..,………………………and……………………..
We were…………………………….students. ……………………..girls and ………………………………boys.
My best teacher ……………………………………….. but my favourite subjects were………………………and ……………………………..
Activity 4:
-Choose the correct verb to complete Lucy´s mail with: was / wasn´t- were / weren´t – there was / wasn´t –
there were / weren´t.
Dear Mary.
Now, I´m good in my new town .The place is wonderful, it is big and
modern but I miss my small town in América.
It………….small but homely. People…………….friendly.
…………………………….a lot of shops but …………………… a big library. I love books!
……………………………only an elementary school. It……………… old and it
……………….in the centre of the town. …………………………… sixty students in it.
We……………………..twenty five in my class. I ………………….happy there.
Transition: Ok, fantastic! Now correct them and answer some questions!
Activity 5:
Answer these questions!
1. Was it a big city?
2. How were the people?
3. Were there a lot of shops?
4. Where was the school?
5. Were there seventy students in the school?
6. Was she happy there?
Closure (5´)
- S will read the activity 4 and 5 to correct both activities.
Transition. Excellent work today!