Dates English Teacher

Activity 4a Choose and write three sentences. 10 min

Objective: to practise writing short sentences in the Past Simple Tense

STEP 1: Ask the pupils to open the Workbook to Page 89 and copy the table into their exercise books.

STEP 2: Revise the past forms of the verbs. Remind that the first 4 verbs are regular and the rest are irregular. If necessary revise them: take – took; feed – fed; sweep – swept; read – read.

STEP 3: The pupils work in pairs. They choose and write three activities they did the day before as in the example.

4. 
   Post-activity
   

Activity 4b Play a guessing game. 10 min

Objective: to practise talking about past activities

STEP 1: The pupils ask questions about their friend‟s activities. They can ask 5 questions, for example: “Did you mop the floor?”

STEP 2: Have a plenary. Ask those who managed to guess after asking 5 questions first.

STEP 3: Optional. If a class is strong, you can ask the pupils to calculate with you how many pupils washed the dishes, mopped the floor, etc. It would nice to have a pie or bar chart.

5. 
   Homework 2 min
   

Ask the pupils to look at the homework on Page 89. Check that everybody understands what to do with the task. If necessary, explain how to do the homework.

6. 
   Evaluation. Giving marks