This document provides a lesson plan for an English class focused on discussing past experiences. The plan includes: - Warm-up activities where students recall activities from their last weekend and ask each other opinions using past tense verbs and phrases. - A presentation where students look at photos of past activities and practice guessing and speculating about what two teenagers did over the weekend. - Development activities where students complete dialogues about weekend plans, identify key phrases for discussing opinions, and then discuss their own weekend experiences in pairs using these language functions.

1. I.S.F.D LENGUAS VIVAS BARILOCHE
PRÁCTICA DOCENTE III
ENTREGA DE PLANIFICACIÓN
ALUMNA PRACTICANTE: Valeria Zentner
Institución educativa: Charles Dickens Institute
Año y sección: Second Junior - Única Sección
Nivel lingüístico del curso: Elementary
Cantidad de alumnos: 8
Tipo de Planificación: Clase
Unidad Temática: The Past
Clase Nº:
Duración de la clase: 90 minutos
Fecha de la clase: Thursday, June 24th
Fecha de entrega de la planificación: May 30th
Learning Aims
During this lesson, learners will be able to…
→ Revisit Past Verbs and grammar structures.
→ Learn, understand and use key phrases to ask for and giving opinions.
→ Gather information from photos and make deductions collaboratively.
→ Improve speaking and listening skills by exchanging information on past experiences.
Language Focus
LEXIS FUNCTIONS STRUCTURE
R
E
V
Regular and Irregular
verbs in the past:
came, ate, explored,
felt, found, got, gave,
went, had, helped, left,
looked, met, saw,
stayed, took, travelled,
visited, watched
To talk about past
events and actions.
Simple Past structures
“I went back to the
17th century”
“I visited William
Shakespeare”
“I didn’t go to the
theatre”
“Did you…?”
“What/Where/Who
did X…”
N
E
W
To ask for and give
opinions.
Key phrases to ask for
and give opinions on
past events:
“How was your
weekend? Not bad,
thanks.”
“What do you think? It
looks great! Very
Comentario [A1]: Quite abstract…

2. cool.”
“How was that? It
wasn’t bad.”
“What was it like? It
was fun”
Materials
→ Printed photos of a pair of teenagers and different activities.
→ Eight printed incomplete dialogues.
→ Sixteen printed information cards.
→ Audio-files 1.32 and 1.33.
Procedures
NOTE: All of the activities are described as suggested by the tutor, in
terms of timing, description and instructions, and transition comments.
Scaffolding strategies are included within the description of each
activity.
ROUTINE
→ Timing: 5/8 minutes
→ Activity description and instructions as they will be said to students (direct
speech and scaffolding strategies are included):
Students will be received in the institute’s door. As always, the teacher will check their
temperature and sterilize their hands, feet and school objects, and then let them in (It usually
takes a while). Once in the classroom, they will be greeted by the teacher. She will say
"Good afternoon, my dear students! How are you today? How was your afternoon so far?"
As a next step, she will ask "What day of the week is today? And what date? Of what
month?" and then copy the date on the board.
→ Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one:
“Think about your last weekend. How was it?”
WARM-UP
→ Timing: 5 minutes
→ Activity description and instructions as they will be said to students (direct
speech and scaffolding strategies are included):
Students will be invited to remember what they did their last weekend. The teacher will say
“Think about three activities you did, only three! For example… In my case, I watched my
favourite Netflix series, I read 2 or 3 chapters of a novel and I took a walk with my dogs. Now,
X what did you do?” making emphasis on the past verbs. She may also ask questions for
students to give their opinions on the activities, such as “Did you have fun? How was it?
What was it like?”
→ Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one:
“I want to introduce to you two teenagers named Sarah and Mark. Where do you think they
are?” while displaying a picture of the two teenagers on the board.

3. PRESENTATION
→ Timing: 10 minutes
→ Activity description and instructions as they will be said to students (direct
speech and scaffolding strategies are included):
Students will be asked to guess what is happening in the picture. To do so, the teacher may
say “Imagine that they haven’t seen each other during the whole weekend. It’s Monday
morning and they’ve just arrived at school. What do you think they’re talking about? Their
weekends!”
Photograph to be displayed on the board
Then she will say “Here I have some photos of the activities they did during the weekend.
Can you guess what each one did?” so to start a brief discussion on the topic. More
questions can be asked, such as “In your opinion… Who was he/she with? Where did he/she
go to do Y? What was it like?” while displaying on the board four more photos of different
activities.
Photograph to be displayed on the board
→ Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one:
“In your opinion, what was the conversation between Sarah and Mark like?”
DEVELOPMENT (PRACTICE and PRODUCTION)
Activity 1
→ Timing: 15 minutes
→ Activity description and instructions as they will be said to students (direct
speech and scaffolding strategies are included):

4. Students will be given a copy of an incomplete dialogue each. Then, the teacher might say
“I want you to work in pairs to do this activity. So, join your classmate from your right. Now, I
want you to read the whole dialogue first, okay? Then, you’re going to discuss and decide
how to complete it with the activities we already talked about” while pointing at the photos
on the board. It will be also said “Please, do not pay attention to the bold words, okay? Just
complete the gaps with the information you think is correct!” Students will have enough time
to complete the task.
Copy of the incomplete conversation to be given to students
Once they have finished, the teacher will play audio-file 1.32 so students can check if their
answers were right or not. It will be said that “If you notice that you have a wrong answer
while you listen, try to correct it. Okay?”.
1-32 English Plus
Second Edition Students Book 2.mp3
Audio-file 1.32 - English Plus 2, Oxford
After the students have listened to the conversation, the teacher will ensure that everyone
has written the correct answer by asking “Okay, so… What is the correct answer in number
A?” and writing them on the board as they come out. Then, she will say “Now, pay attention
to the words in bold. Take some minutes to read the dialogue again and choose the correct
word. Once you’ve done that, I want you to read the dialogue as if you were Sarah and
Mark and decide if your answers are correct or not!”. When they are ready, the audio-file will
be played again so to then be able to discuss the dialogue all together.
Then, it will be gathered the most relevant information related to what the teenagers did
during the weekend. The teacher will ask the following questions:
 Name:
 What did he/she do?
 Where did he/she go to?
Comentario [A2]: Will they have to
write complete questions and
answers?

5.  Who was he/she with?
 His/her opinion on her weekend:
→ Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one:
“Now that you have completed the whole dialogue, let’s further analyse it!”
Activity 2
→ Timing: 10 minutes
→ Activity description and instructions as they will be said to students (direct
speech and scaffolding strategies are included):
The teacher will say “Apart from the phrases used in the text to tell about what they did in
the past, can you tell me what key phrases are used to ask for and give opinion? Like, for
example, this one at the very beginning” while writing How was your weekend? on the
board. She will continue “What other key questions and phrases do you notice in the
dialogue? Find them!” The teacher will ask students to open their Student’s Book on page 34
and complete the Key Phrases list on exercise 2. It will be checked and discusses with the
whole class.
Taken from English Plus 2, Oxford - SB, page 34
→ Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one:
“Now, let’s see if we can use these phrases in another context!”
Activity 3
→ Timing: 15 minutes
→ Activity description and instructions as they will be said to students (direct
speech and scaffolding strategies are included):
The teacher will explain the activity as follows: "It's time now to use these key phrases on
other dialogues. You're now to work on exercise 4. You're going to complete the dialogues
alone. Then, in pairs, you're going to discuss your answers and agree on them" .
If students need further help, the teacher will approach and encourage them to pay
attention to the contexts and imagine that they are the ones saying those words and ask
themselves "what would you say in that context?". Besides, it can be advised to compare
the dialogues with the one they read at the beginning of the class so to take it as a
guideline.

6. Once it is done, the teacher will play audio-file 1.33 for students to check the dialogues.
1-33 English Plus
Second Edition Students Book 2.mp3
→ Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one:
“Great job you all! Now, it’s your turn to talk about your weekend!”
Activity 4
→ Timing: 15 minutes
→ Activity description and instructions as they will be said to students (direct
speech and scaffolding strategies are included):
As to prepare them to do the task, the teacher will say “I want you to take some time and
think of what you did at the weekend. I’ll give you an empty information gap file and you’ll
have 5 minutes to complete it with real information about you. Okay?”.
My last weekend
What did you do?
Activity 1: _______________________
Activity 2: _______________________
Activity 3: _______________________
Where did you go/stay?
_______________________
Who were you with?
_______________________
How would you describe each activity?
_______________________
How would you describe your whole weekend?
_______________________
Once students have completed the information card, she will ask students to work again
with the same pairs as before. It will be explained that they are expected to tell each other
what they did during the weekend and also express their opinion on it. To do so, they need
to use the key phrases to ask for and give opinion from page 34 of their Student’s Books.
While they do the task, the teacher will not interrupt them. She will just walk around the
classroom and listen to each pair speaking. She will only provide them with help if the
learners ask for it.
Comentario [A3]: What about
giving just prompts for them to
make complete questions?
That way, it will be more similar to
an information gap task.

7. In case the task is done too quickly, students will be able to switch pairs and do it again.
→ Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one:
“Excellent job! Now, let’s talk about your performances!”
CLOSURE
→ Timing: 5 minutes
→ Activity description and instructions as they will be said to students (direct
speech and scaffolding strategies are included):
In this last stage, the students will be the ones who will give each other feedback on their
performance. The idea is that in pairs, the students say that they found the activity good and
if they have any piece of advice for their partner. The teacher will say "Respectfully, I would
like you to tell each other what things you found good while doing the activity and what
things would be good to improve. It can be around vocabulary, key phrases, pronunciation,
whatever you consider necessary. ". While the students do it, the teacher will intervene to let
the students know if they agree with the feedback or not.
→ Transition comment to link each stage of the lesson with the next one:
“You’ve done amazingly well today! It’s time to go now, so tidy up! See you next Tuesday!”
To be completed by your tutor:
Lesson plan
component
Excellent
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Very
Good
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Good
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Acceptable
2
Needs
improvement
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Visual
organization
x
Coherence
and
sequencing
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resources
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activities
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strategies
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Language
accuracy
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Observations
Well done!
Comentario [A4]: Interesting! This
will develop their metacognitive
skills.