Brenes b act_creat2 Plan

1. Activity 2 Topic: Past tense / Target Content: verbs in past tense
Level B2
Learning
Goal
The use of sentences in past tense
Technique Storytelling and inferring
Objective
After providing students with a set of story cards, they will create their own
story implementing the use of past tense.
Values Assertiveness and responsibility
Segment Time Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5 min - T will show the Ss.
Some pictures of
common toys.
- T will ask their students
to talk about their
favorite toy from
childhood.
- Ss will narrate
stories about their
childhood using
verbs in past.
- This part of the
class will allow
students to
activate their
previous
knowledge on
the creation
sentences in the
past.
Point of
view.
10 min - T will distribute the
story cards for students to
work in 4 groups.
- T will assign a different
character to each group,
for them to tell the story
from a different witness
point of view.
- Ss will arrange the
story based on the
cards.
-Ss will prepare
themselves to tell
the story from their
point of view using
the verbs in past.
-Ss will story tell
their stories.
- This section of
the class will
enable Ss to
express orally
the use of past
tense to retell a
story.
Expansion
activity
20 min -T will ask the students
to write a story about
how they got they
favorite toy from the first
person narrator point of
view.
-Ss will write the
story based on the
first person narrator
point of view and
using the verbs in
past.
- This section of
the class will
enable students
to practice the
use of first
person and past
sentences in a
written form.