Lesson plan

Lesson plan

Teacher: Tircomnicu Mihaela Simona

School: Rotunda

Date: 22nd March 2007

Class: the 7th

Level: beginners-intermediate

Lesson: Present perfect / Past simpleTextbook: Snapshot

Skills: writing

Materials:sheets of paper, worksheets

Time: 50

Lesson aims: 1) to make the difference between the two tenses

(definition, structure, time adverbs)

2) to define and give the structure of past simple

and past perfect

3) to put the verb in the brackets in the simple past

or present perfect

4) to develop the Ss ability to choose the right

variant out of two when it comes to two

different tenses.

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Date:

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TEST PAPER

I. The present perfect tense / The simple past tense:

form and use 3p

II. Put the verbs in the simple past or present perfect

1) Im sorry, you cant speak to Mr. Scott. He (just, leave). 0,5p

He (leave) five minutes ago.

2) Betty (make) a lot of friends recently. 0,5p

3) This man (write) two novels and last year he (write) a play. 0,5p

4) Last Sunday my friend and I (leave) town early in the

morning. 0,5p

5) William Shakespeare (write) 37 plays. 0,5p

III. Choose the correct form:

1) Columbus...America more than 4oo years ago. 0,5p

a) has discovered b) discovered c) was discovering

2) How long agothe last war? 0,5p

a) has been b) were c) was

3) I..anything like this lately. 0,5p

a) havent seen b) didnt see c) hasnt seen

4) R.L. StevensonTreasure Island in 1883. 0,5p

a) wrote b) has written c) written

5) Where is your grandmother? She..yet. 0,5p

a) didnt arrive b) hasnt arrived c) havent arrived

6) Admiral Nelson..the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. 0,5p

a) has won b) win c) won

7) Most of us .awake since five oclock to watch the

sunrise. 0,5p

a) were b) have been c) has been