This lesson plan is for a 40-minute class on family relationships for 11-12 year olds. The lesson focuses on narrating past events using the past simple tense. Students will review the story "The Enormous Turnip" through a text graffiti activity. They will then work in pairs to think of alternative versions of the story, drafting their own stories on strips or templates. Finally, students will individually create "storytelling bags" based on their rewritten storylines. The lesson aims to have students practice narrating past events and writing short stories using time connectives and the past simple tense. Student understanding will be evaluated through observation of their spoken and written language use during the activities.

1. LESSON PLAN 2
By Marina Michael
Dali B’ Primary School, Cyprus
UNIT: 4, RELATIONSHIPS
SUBUNIT: Family
Lesson 2
Age group 11-12 years old
Time: 40 minutes
New Language: past simple
(affirmative), family members
(daughter, grandaughter, son,
grandson, wife, husband),
action verbs, time connectives
(first, then after, finally, etc.),
enormous.
Recycledlanguage: Family
members: mum, dad, brother,
sister, grandma, grandpa, other
vocabulary: huge, gigantic,
food vocabulary: lunch, dinner,
breakfast, soup, adverbials of
time: today, tomorrow, always,
usually, often, sometimes,
never, every
week/Monday/month/year, next
week / month / year/ summer /
etc., days of the week
Resources-Materials: mini
whiteboards, markers, “cut”
storybook “the enormous
turnip”, ppt presentation, film
strips, a handout with the story
For Lessons 1 & 2
Success Indicators
Students should be able to:
Adequacy Targets
Listening
Comprehend short stories Pre and While – storytelling
activities: predictions,
questions, main idea, still
scenes
Speaking
Narrate events which take
place in the past
After – storytelling activities:
story retelling with the use of
time connectives and other
“tools” (pictures)
Reading
Enjoy, follow and participate
actively in the narration of
literary stories
Pre and while – storytelling
activities: predictions,
questions, main idea, still
scenes
Writing
Write a short story Storybird: Digital writing tool
with the use of art pictures
Learning Strategies
Deduce rules on the function of
language based on its use
Transform the text to present
simple and compare the
function of the two tenses in
storytelling
Objectives:
Pupils should be able to:
 Transform the “The enormous turnip” to make their own
story (e.g. change characters, setting, etc)
 Draft their own stories on film strips, or other story
templates
 Create their “storytelling bags” based upon their own story

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Time Procedure Class Organization
10΄
Introduction – Text Graffiti
To refresh students’ memory on the story content, the teacher asks
students to prepare in groups a text graffiti. Each student, writes or
draws his/her thoughts on the story, one after the other.
groups
15΄
10΄
Story planning and drafting
 The teacher asks students to think of alternative versions of
the story. What if there was also a grandson? What other
animals could be of great help? What if the farmer did not
have a wife? What if others did not want to help?
 Students are requested to draw their characters on pebbles
 They are also encouraged to design, create, find objects to
include in their storytelling bags
 Students choose a template and write their stories
dyads
Dyads
individual

3. Evaluation
Evaluation takes place through observation of the pupils’ responses to
the various activities. Particular attention should be paid to use of
past simple in narration (spoken and written language)