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The lesson plan focuses on teaching English students the difference between the past simple and present perfect tenses. It includes warm-up activities to review verbs, an introduction comparing example sentences in the two tenses, practice with fill-in-the-blank and matching exercises, evaluation of individual writing, and an application activity where students role play catching up as old friends.

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Lesson Plan

The lesson plan focuses on teaching English students the difference between the past simple and present perfect tenses. It includes warm-up activities to review verbs, an introduction comparing example sentences in the two tenses, practice with fill-in-the-blank and matching exercises, evaluation of individual writing, and an application activity where students role play catching up as old friends.

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Alejandra Nicole Paredes Rivera
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Students:

Lesson plan Moran Delgado, Valery Adela


Nina Llacho, Anny Aylent
Ramírez Mamani, Maricruz Xiomara
Paredes Rivera, Alejandra Nicole
Nº of students: 21
Age: Young adults

English level: low-intermediate


Objectives: by the end of the lesson,
students will be able to...
differentiate the past simple and present perfect tense uses by
doing gap fill exercises in which they’ll have to choose between
the past simple and present perfect tense.
use the present perfect tense to share information about their
lives
receive information about what other people have done in their
lives (such as where they have lived, been to, etc) and
comprehend it. Students will do an exercise in which they'll need
to interact and tell each other what they have been doing.
Recalling the verbs in its past participle form

Differentiating between the use of the present perfect and


past simple tenses
This is the way we will assess our students

- During the evaluation stage, the teacher will be able to


see how each student has
understood the topic. This way, the teacher will know
what to reinforce. It may be
sentence structure, past participle verbs, or
pronunciation.

- All stages: We will ask students for active participation


in class given the instructions to do
each activity.

- In the application stage, the teacher will be able to


listen to how fluent or accurate each
student is when pronouncing the past participle verbs
and forming complete sentences.
TIME: 15 MIN
WARM UP

What did you do


yesterday or last
month?

- I read 4 books last month


- Imyreceived a lot of messages from
friends yesterday.

The teacher will write two sentences about what he/she did the day before or
last month.
Students will also write 5 sentences about things they did the day
before or last month, but in their notebooks.

Then, they'll pick two, read them out loud, and say if the
verbs they used are regular or irregular.

Individual work
TIME: 5 MIN
INTRODUCTION
What did you do
yesterday
or last month?
- I read 4 books last month.
- I received a lot of messages
from my friends yesterday.
- I ate sushi.
- I visited my friend.

We'll write a few of our students' sentences on the board.


TIME: 5 MIN
INTRODUCTION
We'll write two sentences using the present perfect tense, related to the sentences we wrote before.
Then, we'll ask students if they can notice any difference between the sentences we wrote before and the
ones we just wrote.

What did you do


yesterday Today, we’ll learn
or last month? about this new use
- I have received only a few
- I read 4 books last month.
messages today.
of ‘have’
- I received a lot of messages
from my friends yesterday. - I have only read 1 book
- I ate sushi. this month.

- I visited my friend.
TIME: 20 MIN
PRESENTATION

Study -> studied


Eat -> eaten
Play -> played
Fall -> fallen

Mark has studied two foreign languages.


It hasn't rained this week.
To check for comprehension, we can show students a short text previously prepared and ask them to
identify and tell us the examples of present perfect and irregular verbs they can find.
TIME: 20 MIN
PRACTICE

Forgot Forgotten

.
Pair work
We'll put

students in

pairs and hand

them color-

coded cards
Individual work

WORKSHEETS

Students will need to decide whether to use present perfect or past simple
They'll compare answers in groups of three

Group work
TIME: 15 MIN
EVALUATION

Individual work
Write a
sentence per
verb that is
true for you

to o
t en is
e a th
a ve le s
Ih o od
h n k
uc e
m we
TIME: 15 MIN
APPLICATION

We'll put students in pairs. They will pretend they're good


old friends that haven't seen each other in 2 years, but that
they've just run into each other at a café. Each student will
tell the other what he/she has done in these 2 years.

Pair work

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