Yesterday Lesson Plan
Yesterday Lesson Plan
Yesterday Lesson Plan
Yesterday Topic: Yesterday Aims: To revise wh questions in the past To develop students speaking skills Level: Lower intermediate B1 Introduction In this lesson students practise forming, asking and answering wh questions in the past tense. They play two games and do a mingling activity. Procedure Lead in: Jumbled sentences Write these jumbled up questions on the board: / today / did / breakfast / for / What / have / you /? / eat / did / yesterday / Where / you / lunch /? / night / bed / did / time / last / go / What / you / to / ? Students order the words and write the three questions. Answers: What did you have for breakfast today? Where did you eat lunch yesterday? What time did you go to bed last night? Tell students to ask and answer the questions in pairs. Task 1: Guess the question Put students into pairs; A and B. Give Students A a copy of Task 1A and give students B a copy of Task 1B.
Task 1B Student B. Write the answers to these questions on a piece of paper. Write simple answers. E.g. 17.55, an egg, a hamburger, on foot, 07.00. What time did you arrive at class today? What did you have for breakfast today? Where did you have lunch yesterday? How did you go home from the last class? What time did you get up this morning?
Students read their five questions and write their answers. They must not show their partner their worksheet. Student A tells student B their answer for question 1. Student B tries to guess the original question. Then students exchange roles and repeat the activity. For question 2, student B tells student A their answer first. Students guess each others questions, taking turns to go first each time. Monitor students and encourage them to help each other with guesses. Task 2: Dannys day Students do a mingling activity. Give each student a copy of Task 2 (A).
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Cut up 1 copy of Task 2 (B) into 20 separate strips. Share the strips out between the students.
Students complete the information on Task 2 (A), using the information on their slip(s) of paper. Students mingle, asking and answering questions to complete Task 2 (A) with information about Dannys day. Monitor students to make sure they are formulating the past tense questions correctly. Task 3: The yesterday game Demonstrate the game with the whole class. On the board write yesterday. Explain that you are going to tell the students how you spent yesterday. Your objective is to arrive at bed time. The objective of your oponent (the class) is to stop you from arriving at bed time by interrupting
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