Page 401 - English Lesson Plan Year 3

Primary Year 3 SK Scheme of Work

past tense correctly in a sentence, they keep the card. You can introduce other pupils when they are
rules if you wish, for example, they should alternate between positive and writing the sentences.
negative verbs.
You could give the
8. Ask some pupils questions about their weekend (see Student’s Book, p.91). Then jumbled up questions
in their notebooks, pupils write at least two sentences about what they did at the on a worksheet if you
weekend. think pupils will work
better individually than
9. On the board, write some jumbled-up questions on the board. Ask pupils to as a whole class.
unjumble them to make questions. They could write them in their notebooks or
you could nominate pupils to come and write on the board, or do this orally. For You could offer pupils
example: a choice of these
activities or you could
did / Where / go / you / ? (Where did you go?)
ask different pupils to
watch / you / a / film / Did / ? (Did you watch a film?) do different activities
depending on their
10. Elicit the difference between Yes/No questions and those with question words. individual needs,
Highlight the use of did and that the past tense is not used in the main verb. based on formative
Avoid using grammatical words, but show pupils what you mean. assessment in this
unit.
11. Pupils work in small groups. One pupil reads their sentences about the weekend.
Then each group member has to ask a question about the weekend until pupils Have pupils do more
can think of no more questions to ask. Each pupil takes a turn to read their activities and/or make
sentences. their own activities.

Monitor very carefully during this activity to make sure pupils are asking
appropriate questions. Give some corrective feedback and support with question
and past tense forms and make a note of common problems to feed back on.

12. If you have time, you could write sentences/questions you heard pupils making
mistakes with on the board for class correction.

Post-lesson

13. Ask pupils to think about what they have learned in Unit 9 and how well they feel
they know the language now. They should complete the How did I do in Unit 9?
self-assessment worksheet (see below).
Collect the worksheets/notebooks from pupils and review them to note pupils’
performance. If there are any areas of concern, prepare a review of these in
upcoming lessons.

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