1. Grammar Teaching Demonstration
demonstrator: Michelle Chen
February 24, 2019

2. 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

3. 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

4. 1
Laura
Tommy

5. 2 4 3 5

6. 7 6 8 9

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Q&A
Thank you!

12. 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