lesson plan

Age 7-8 years (2nd graders) Objective Students will be able to identify and use verbs in past. Function talking about friendship and past experiences. Warm-upBrainstorming Ask students why friendship is important for them. (5 min)Pre-reading 1Elicit activities that students do with their friends and write them on the board ex run, play, study, read, share etc(5 min)Pre- reading 2Choose some of the activities mentioned by the students and select some kids to come to the board and act ask them to act the activities out. (2 min)Pre-reading 3Show a power point presentation containing the reading students will read. The reading talks about friendship. The title will include a picture of the main character in the story Poppleton. Students already know this character from the last school year. The have read about him before. ( 2 min)While readingStudents will read along me. I will confirm students know the meaning of certain words and expressions that they might find difficult sour, grapefruit, lips turned outside-in. I will ask some students to mimic the word sour and lips turned outside-in. I will monitor their understanding while they are reading.( 5 min)Post-reading 1Ask comprehension questions orally. ( 5 min)Language focusGo back to reading and ask students to identify all the activities in past they can find in the first slide (all the verbs in the reading are in past) and ask them to tell me how they know they are in past. Make 2 teams (boys and girls) and provide each team with a flyswatter. Slips of paper with verbs in present will be pasted around the classroom before. These verbs are the ones in the reading. T will say the past form of the verb and they will have to look for that verb in the past and use their flyswatter to get the verb. Whenever they get a verb I will ask for a sentence with it. (15 min) Post-reading 2Referring to the reading and the importance of having friends T will ask students to write 3 sentences they did during the last week with their