LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• work with a story through reading, listening and discussing;
• revise Past Simple;
• develop a story using Past Simple.

Students explore a story about a terrible weekend trip and revise Past Simple. They guess what happens in the story using ‘maybe’ (e.g. Maybe they wanted to go to the beach) and work with vocabulary from the text (e.g. steal, blanket, snacks). Students also practise their listening skills, share personal experiences and create their own short stories using prompts and Past Simple.

WARM-UP AND READING

This lesson starts with a warm-up. Students look at the title of the story ‘Terrible weekend trip’ and say what they think happened in it. They start with the word ‘maybe’. Afterwards, students match words from the story (e.g. car park, snacks, blanket) in sentences with photos. Moving on, they read the beginning of the story where they revise Past Simple. They then answer questions about it by starting with the word ‘maybe’. After that, students read the second part of the story. They correct the sentences about the text. Following that, students look at the first and second parts of the story again. They find the Past Simple forms of some verbs (e.g. got in, bought, sat down). 

PAST SIMPLE PRACTICE

In this part of the lesson, students look at questions about how the story ends and choose the answers that they think are correct. They then listen to the last part of the story and check their ideas. After that, students listen to the last part of the story again and choose the words they hear. Students also discuss questions about their last park visit or other trips. Finally, students revise Past Simple by creating a story. They use phrases from different categories (e.g. Who?, What did they want to do?, What did they do first?) in the correct form and their own ideas.

HOMEWORK/REVISION

This lesson plan also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students choose the correct words to complete the gaps in statements. They use the positive and negative forms of Past Simple. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.