The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:
- – Study irregular past simple verbs like “eat-ate” and “drink-drank” while building holiday vocabulary through reading about vacation experiences in this a2 english lesson.
- – Transform present to past tense by watching videos about holiday mistakes and completing comprehension exercises for adult english lessons.
- – Share personal travel stories through discussions about past holidays and future vacation plans using these english teaching materials.
In this A2 ESL lesson, the student will read and talk about past events (mostly holidays) using past simple forms of irregular verbs.
Warm-up discussion
The student reads a quote about holidays and discusses what they like doing on holiday, where they like to go, and their overall experience with holidays.
Grammar: Past Simple – irregular verbs
Irregular verbs are explained and some of the most frequent irregular verbs are presented to the student (e.g. eat – ate, drink – drank).
The student then learns irregular forms by matching them with their present forms.
Then, they need to transform sentences in the present tense into the past tense, most of them being irregular.
Reading: On holiday with a friend
The student reads a few paragraphs about a holiday with a friend and completes the sentences with the correct irregular past forms from the box.
Video: What NOT to do on holiday
After watching the video about what not to do on holiday, the student answers the questions.
Discussion
As a wrap-up, the student talks about their past holidays as well as their plans for holidays in the future.