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Name: Date: Length of lesson: :40 level: Intermediate TP# 3

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Materials Whiteboard, Notepaper, W-T-D Worksheet, News art. Lawyer, Sentence Strips, News art. From our, F-T-W Worksheet, Review Worksheet

Main Aim: Grammar: Present Perfect and Past Simple. I want students to be able to recognize that both are used to tell about the past, but that Present Perfect is used when the time is not stated, and Past Simple is used when the time is known.Secondary aim: To give students the opportunity to recognize the difference between Past Perfect and Past Simple sentence structures (written and spoken), and to use correctly Past Perfect and Past Simple sentence structures in speaking and writing about the past.Personal aim: To improve Student Talking Time (STT) and decrease Teacher Talking Time ( TTT );. To clearly illustrate and explain grammatical concepts. To improve Teacher task-cycling.Reference to course book or other material: Straightforward (STUDENT BOOK. WORKBOOK, TEACHERS BOOK); Techniques and Resources in Teaching Grammar, Celce-Murcia and Hilles, (Oxford University Press) 1988

Anticipated problems and solutions/assumptionsForm: Students might have problems mixing past perfect and past simple tenses when talking about the past. Solution is to drill students in form and give reading and writing exercises, and speaking opportunities in Pairs and Groups. Pronunciation: Contractions (Ive, Hes, Youve, etc.). Teach I have, then use fingers to show Ive. Help students recognize that contractions constitute Past Perfect when it includes pronoun + have ( + VERB).Concept/Function: That a Present Perfect tense is used to tell about the past may be confusing to students. So, students must perform the Task of successfully using the Present Perfect tense before learning the name of the tense: Explain to them that you have the present form of have used with the past participle to tell about a past event where the time is not stated. Assuming no problems with Simple Past.Instructions: Other:Asumptions: I assume the students will have difficulty with Present Perfect constructions; so exercises have been developed to help them use this effectively and recognize when Present Perfect / Past Simple use is appropriate in language use.

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Warm-Up Activity Past Simple. Get students to tell about a past event when the time is known.____________________

Warm-Up Activity Present Perfect: Get students to tell about the past when the time is not stated.

Instruction: Teacher uses front Whiteboard to show three headings: Yesterday, Last Week, and Last Month. Students asked to write on paper under three headings, what they did yesterday, last week, and last month.Task: Students work with partners writing three things each did yesterday, last week, and last month. Feedback: Students share results with partner, then CLASS as Teacher asks What did you do yesterday? and What did he do last week?

Further questions: When did you go to school? What did you eat for breakfast? Where did he go this morning?

Teacher Explanation: We use Past Simple when the time is known: yesterday, this morning, July, last January. __________________________________________________________

Instruction: Teacher uses side Whiteboard to show Timeline (from right) showing Present, past months, and year of birth. Write Have you ever ______? Students asked to complete the sentences by adding correct tense verbs. Teacher refers to timeline to show the ever means anytime from now to before now. Writes at Board Qs and As: Have you ______?, Has he ______? And Has she ________? List of verbs: skied, played tennis, made pizza, traveled overseas.Task: Students ask their partner questions, starting with Have you _____ ? or Has he ______?Have you ever visited Indonesia? Yes/No Ive visited/never visited Indonesia.Has he been to class this month? Yes/No, hes been/not been to class this month.Have you studied English before now? Yes/No, Ive studied/never studied English before.Feedback: Students answer T questions about what they/their partner have done before, using Present Perfect construction.

Teacher Explanation: Do I know exactly what time he studied English? So I use have + verb when it doesnt matter exactly when it happened, / the time is not stated. I have been in Thailand for one week.Ive never been to the beach.

Students answer questions: Have you ever traveled alone? Have you ever visited Indonesia? Have you eaten breakfast?T to SS to SS to S, S to T

T to ST to S, S to TS to SS to TT to S

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5 min._____10 min5 min.3 min._____5 min._____CR (Consciousness Raising) - To get students to recognize the difference between Present Perfect usage and Past Simple usage.CR - To get students to read and recognize examples of Present Perfect and Past Simple by underling examples.

Review - Students group sentences into categories: Present Perfect / Past Simple, and why.

Checking - To be sure students recognize when to use correct past tense form in sentences.

____________________Focused Practice to distinguish simple past and present perfect through reading a graph showing trends completed in the past (simple past) and states that continue into the present (present perfect). To get students to use present perfect and past simple in conversation exchange.

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Review Correct mistakes in the review.

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Instruction: Students placed in 2 groups. They are asked to look at sentences on a sheet of paper, then tell what is the difference between sentences: Place labels above each column that describe that group (Time is known. Time is not stated. / Present Perfect Past SimpleTask: Students label each column of sentences according to : Time is known. Time is not stated. / Present Perfect Past Simple.Feedback: Students tell teacher which column of sentences is Present Perfect, and why; which column is Past Simple, and why. Instruction: Students are directed to scan first three paragraphs of newspaper article: Lawyer gives up job to cycle around South America to find examples of Present Perfect and Past Simple. Students are to locate and underline Present Perfect and Past Simple verb tenses in the newspaper article.Task: Students read, locate and underline examples of Present Perfect and Past Simple in newspaper article; comparing answers with partners/explaining why each example is Past Simple or Present Perfect.Feedback: Students called on, at random, by Teacher to share findings.__________________________________________________________Instruction: Students read, then place Sentence Strips onto correct page under headings: Present Perfect, and Past Simple.

Task: Students divided into two groups, place Sentence Strips onto one of two pages by category: Present Perfect, and Past Simple.Feedback: Students check the work of the other group and compare results, explaining why one is Present Simple and the other Past Perfect.Instruction: Students read article: From our Dublin Correspondent, then circle the correct verb form.

Task: With partner, Students read and circle the correct verb form.Feedback: Compare answers with partner.____________________________________________________Instruction: Look at the Graph showing World Food Contributions by country. Complete the worksheet using past simple or present perfect.Task: Divided into two groups, students complete sentences, using the Graph as a reference. They finish the last two sentences, using the Chart as a reference.

Feedback: Class Discussion - Students will talk with one another ABOUT what they learned about World Food Aid contributions: using past simple and present perfect.Instruction: Read Review, find and correct six mistakes using past simple and past perfect.

Task: In groups of 2, students read article and correct mistakes for Past Simple and Perfect.

Feedback: Partners share findings.

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Worksheet Ask and Answer the Questions.

Grammar Handouts: Present Perfect/Past Simple and Irregular Verb List (past participle highlighted)

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