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You are going to prepare a lesson based on a live listening about the following:

Topic: Last weekend
Language: Past simple (regular and irregular)
Level: Elementary
Assumptions: Students have already encountered the past simple, but need further practice.
First prepare what you are going to say about your weekend. You can write it out in full, but then prepare prompts or notes from which you can tell your story. For example: Sat. evening: cinema with Toni.
I had a wonderful time last weekend. On Friday night, I went to the theatre with some friends and after that we had dinner at a restaurant. On Saturday morning, I visited my mum, I did some shopping and in the afternoon, I watched TV and had a nap on the couch. On Sunday I met my friends and we went to the beach for a walk. We had lunch at an Italian restaurant. We shared a tomato and mozzarella salad and ate some wonderful pasta. I went to bed early on Sunday night.
Friday night: theatre with friends. Dinner at a restaurant
Saturday morning: visit mum
Saturday afternoon: watch TV and siesta
Sunday: walk on the beach, lunch at an Italian restaurant
Now prepare a lesson plan based on the live listening about your weekend. What activities could precede the listening? What activities could follow it? Don't forget to design a listening task and a speaking component.
1 Write some sentences on the board using the past simple tense. Use time expressions (last weekend, yesterday). Use regular forms first (walk, visit, play). Do the same with irregular verbs (give a list of irregular verbs first). Leave sentences on board and practice some more with them. Cue ‘What did you do last weekend?’
2 Prepare a worksheet with easy regular/irregular verbs in the past. Complete short, easy sentences first. Verbs like have, go, eat, walk, visit and then have, eat, drink, swim
3 Explain what I did at the weekend.
4 Reading comprehension. Copy the text but omit some of the words, the verbs in this case
I a wonderful time last weekend. On Friday night, I to the theatre with some friends and after that we dinner at a restaurant. On Saturday morning, I my mum, I some shopping and in the afternoon, I TV and a nap on the couch. On Sunday I my friends and we to the beach for a walk. We lunch at an Italian restaurant. We a tomato and mozzarella salad and some wonderful pasta. I to bed early on Sunday night.

5 Check answers
6 Kids prepare their own short paragraphs. Writing activity

You are going to prepare a lesson based on a live listening about the following:

Topic: Last weekend
Language: Past simple (regular and irregular)
Level: Elementary
Assumptions: Students have already encountered the past simple, but need further practice.
Pre listening activities
1. Revision of vocabulary (games with vocabulary cards (places), matching, questions to answer in pairs)
2. Revision of grammar structures ( 1. revision of topic in group, how to add ending, helping verb and so on), 2 cut the declarative, negative and interrogative sentances , devide students into small groups and make a competition, who will be the first in making sentances from words they were given., 3. in pairs make their own sentances using the target structure)
3. Give students the pictures and play a guessing game, how did the teacher spent her weekend
Listening task:
Satureday evening: cinema with Katy, film "Text", impresions
Sunday evening: joga in the gym, park Dinamo with my son, sushi restaurant with a friend
After listening task:
1. Answer yes/no questions
2. Answer open questions about activity
3. Fill in the gaps
4. Put the pictures in order according to the story
5. Prepare your own story about weekend and tell to the partner, ask the partner about pros and cons of this timespending, give your ideas about perfect weekend

You are going to prepare a lesson based on a live listening about:
Topic: Last weekend
Language: Past simple (regular and irregular)
Level: Elementary
Assumptions: Students have already encountered the past simple, but need further practice.
First I record my text: I had a wonderful time last weekend. On Saturday I went to the cinema with friends. We watched the very interesting film "Titanic". On Saturday I slept till 11 am and after that I tidied up my flat and cooked dinner. On Sunday morning, I visited my parents and we went for a walk. We had a picnic in the park and played some boardgames.
Friday: cinema with friends
Saturday: tidy up the flat
Sunday: visit parents, a picnic in the park
Pre-listening: Sts have a set of cards. They need to put them in order and make up a story in the past
Listening: sts listen to the live audio about t's weekends
Post-listening: True/false task
Put the missing verbs into the audioscript using the right past form
Speaking: Sts tell each other about their weekends (time limit) then swap the partner.