Grammar Teaching Demonstration demonstrator: Michelle Chen February 24, 2019
Lesson Plan—Past Tense Verbs Learner’s level: junior high school students Goal: Cognitive Objects： To learn how to describe things happened in the past with past tense verbs. To memorize regular verbs and irregular verbs. Psychomotor Objectives： To use past tense verbs to make sentences together into a story. Affective Objectives： To participate in class activities and discussion actively. To enjoy the English song—Tell Laura I love her. Picture description story-making Listen to the song
Picture Description and Story Making Word Bank Lovers Round the track the chapel prize Flowers over-turn pray dying breath Gifts flames a car race A wedding ring
1 Laura Tommy
2 4 3 5
7 6 8 9
Tell Laura I Love Her sung by Ray Peterson Laura and Tommy ______ lovers he _______ to give her everything Flowers, presents and most of all, a wedding ring He _____ a sign for a stock car race a thousand dollar prize it ______ He _______ get Laura on the phone so to her mother Tommy ______. Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her tell Laura I may be late
I’ve something to do, that cannot wait I’ve something to do, that cannot wait. He _______ his car to the racing grounds he was the youngest driver there. The crowed roared as they _______ the race Round the track they _______ at a deadly pace no one knows what ________ that day How his car ___________ in flames but as they _________ him from The twisted wreck with his dying breath, they __________ him say
Tell Laura I love her, tell Laura I need her tell Laura not to cry My love for her will never _______ and in the chapel where Laura prays For her Tommy who __________ away it _________ just for Laura he _______ and ________ Alone in the chapel she can hear him cry My love for her will never die Tell Laura I love her.......
Answers For the Song—Tell Laura I Love Her were was heard wanted started die saw Drove passed read happened said overturned lived drove pulled died
Q&A Thank you!
Grammar Teaching Skills and Concept Noticing as skill Top-down: prediction in story making Bottom-up: listening activity Process activity Regulating language use Regulating topics and familiarity Creativity