This lesson plan focuses on teaching WH-question words in the past tense using auxiliary verbs like "did". The plan has three main parts: 1) An introductory activity where students will work in groups to ask and answer WH-questions about past activities. 2) Students will watch a video song demonstrating WH-questions plus "did" and analyze its use of vocabulary for past activities. 3) Optionally, students may read lyrics to another song highlighting WH-questions in the present and past tenses.

1. Lesson Plan 9
Date : Jun 22th th, 2012 Level : 8vo Basico
Activity: “What did you do .......?”WH question words plus auxiliary
Skills: Listening, writing, reading, speaking.
Expected outcomes: Student will be able to recognize WH-question words in the past time. They also will
be able to relate what the specific concept do they refer i.e. Time, place, date, frequency etc. They are
going to rehearse some of these questions form by working in pairs asking for activities done the previous
day.
Resources: Worksheets, markers, colour markers, laptop, data show, speaker, board, dictionary,
photocopies.
Time Comments:
Introduction : 15 min Teacher greets students, and briefly introduced the theme
Greetings, students have to work on: Question words
Introducing the topic plus Auxiliary did: What+ did? When+ did? ,
How + did? Why+did?, Homuch + did? How Long+did?
Roll calling,
While –Stage 30 min Before doing this, teacher suggests an activity in order to
Recall the previous contents studied last lesson. WH -
Question words in the present.
“ Using WH question words:
Answer to the moderator” The activity consists in setting up 10 groups of 3 students.
Each group has to designate a moderator.
Each moderator receive an envelope with 10question words
These question words have been divided in 2 , so the
Moderator has 10 WH questions such as What is..Where is
How old are.. etc
The rest of the sentences are given to the two student who
Have to answer the questions ( characterizing themselves
or another famous musician, actress, football player etc)
thus Moderator delivers 5 possible answers to each
Students. Once it has been done, moderator start showing
Them Wh question forms, then students have to find among
Their 5 possible alternatives to complete the sentence.
Once the parts have been matched , moderator have
To write down the students answer i.e . If moderator shows
The question “ How old is ..” , and the student has matched
the alternative “... your father?” The student answer

2. “My father is 40 years old”, and moderator writes down the
Entire answer in a sheet of paper where the entire interview has to
Be recorded.
Post- Stage : 30 min Once the first activity has been doing , teacher invites students to
Watch a 3 minutes ESL video song where WH questions + did are
Shown in context.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecAHyjh97xA
“ Wh question + auxiliary This video song works on the base of 3 main questions in the past:
Did : Video-0 song” What did you do?
Where did you go?
Who did you see?
The video provides plenty vocabulary to refer to activities in the
Past such as : I got up at 8 , I dressed myself , I brushed my teeth,
I arrived at school etc.
Teacher suggests to play the video song once in order to make it
Understandable and then play it again to analyse it by its parts.
Teacher can pause the video an explain how they can used the
The three questions along with the rest of the pronouns:
What did you do---------> What did he/she/ it do?
Where did you go? -------> Where did they/ we go?
Who did you see? --------> Who did I see?
Also teacher can point out the use of adverb of frequency such us
Yesterday, after that and other related vocabulary contents.
Once it has been done , students are asked to interview some
Classmates using these question sentences and creating a couple
Of them from the vocabulary and expression they already know.
When did your heart go This is song which has been adapted to read its lyrics in a very
Missing? Song attractive way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tChB2PwnibI
( optional) Meanwhile the video is played student can read and notice the
Way Wh question in the present and the past (Did), as well as
Related vocabulary and expression.
Closing: 15 min Teacher ask to some students to shade their interviews ,and
Comment on what some of their classmates were doing.