LESSON PLAN

Trainee Teacher: Belle Rodopiano Host teacher: Amelia Time: 18 – 20:10 (100’) Date: 09/11/2017
School: Colégio Estadual Thales de Azevedo Level/Group: 2N9 Number of SS: 7
Goals: By the end of this class students will be better able to use the past continuous tense

Step Activity Interaction Material Anticipated problems

and time

T introduces herself and asks for students’ names.

After that, T asks students how STs’ day was.
WARM UP T writes on the board: “what did you do yesterday?”
and elicits answers from students.
T writes sentences on the board in different colors.
Students may not be aware of the vocabulary
Board
related to their everyday lives.
T-ST Markers
T can bring cards with the associated
vocabulary to class, and help students out.

After writing sentences on the board, T elicits from

STs the time tense structure. T helps students with
any doubts, and then changes the sentence
previously written: from ”what did you do
yesterday?” to “What were you doing yesterday at
4p.m.?”, and again, T elicits examples from T-ST Board Students may not be accurate with grammar.
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students and writes them again on the board. Markers T will guide and help STs
After that, T introduces the subject by eliciting
structure and use from students (optional: ask
questions such as “what verb is this?” and “how is it
used?”).

T writes grammar aspects that may be missing and

brushes up any doubts that STs may have.
T-ST
Then, T hands out the activity sheets (attached) and
STUDY PAIRS
explains the activities to the class. Then,
Worksheet
individually, STs do activities 1 and 2 from the
worksheet. T corrects the activities and, in pairs.
STs do activity 3, and T asks STs to write their
There may not be enough students in the
Board classroom.
Markers They can still do the activity and fill in the
survey about themselves and share their
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results.
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After that, the group does a find someone who
survey (attached) about things their classmates
were doing yesterday.

What were they doing? T shows Sts a picture

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has to use the present progressive tense to describe
what the people in the picture were doing, and the
rest of the class has to point out who the person is,
or say the number of the person on the image. The
one who gets the biggest amount of numbers, wins
the game. PAIRS
ACTIVATE ST-ST Picture
If time allows, detective game: each student picks a
piece of paper that may have the words “detective”,
“victim” or “killer” written. Then, each ST interviewed
by the “detective” has to describe what they were
doing on a specific day and time (the fixed sentence Commented [UdW4]: delete extra space after
should be “What were you doing on Sunday at 5:30 parenthesis
p.m.?”) The detective then, decides who the killer is.