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Present Perfect Printable Lesson Plan
Name: [Teacher’s name]
Date: 09/23/20….
Lesson Focus: Focus on grammar
Level: A2(Late basic)
Age group: Adults – General English
No of students 15 adults
Length: 75 minutes
Lesson Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to speak about their real or imaginary
vacation experience using the present perfect tense.
Materials: 1. Present Perfect Timeline Diagram:
https://manylex.com/efl/lesson-plan-present-perfect.php#timeline
2. Blank cards, paper, pens, color markers
3. List of questions (8 copies, see the lesson plan text).
4. Present Perfect printable worksheet (15 copies for home assignment)
https://manylex.com/efl/lesson-plan-present-perfect.php#worksheet
5. Video — Difference Between Present Perfect and Simple Past + Adverbs:
https://manylex.com/efl/lesson-plan-present-perfect.php#video
Stage/Timing Stage Teacher’s Actions Students’ T/S Ratio Comments
Objective Actions and
interaction
Warm To reduce Hand out 15 blank cards and ask a Draw fruit CW 20/80
up/Review affective filter volunteer to say what he or she has. or
8 minutes and increase (Expect: I have a blank card). Invite vegetable.
Elapsed time 8 students’ students to draw some fruit or Raise their
minutes engagement. vegetable on their card and write a pictures
Review title for it. Time limit: 3 min. and say
previously what they
Ask each student to show their work
learned have.
to the class and say what they have
vocabulary.
and what their neighbor has. Write
Recall use of
example on the board:
have as a main
I have a picture of…
verb.
Jane has a picture of…
Remind students: with he and she we
use has.
Lead-in Review some Ask students to recall some uses of Try to recall CW 40/60
10 minutes previous the verb to have and to give examples uses of
Elapsed time knowledge to in a sentence. Allow students to think have and
18 minutes help students of their examples. If students hesitate think of
understand or don’t have any ideas, write on the some
the idea of board in two colors: examples.
upcoming Do you have an idea?
Learn
explanation. Try to get an answer such as: No, I
vocabulary.
don’t have any idea yet.
More examples, if needed:
I have a new iPhone.
What do we have for lunch today?
I have to go now.
Please have my car repaired.
She has a baby brother.
They have to make a choice.
Teacher: As you can see, the verb to
have has not just one meaning.
However, there is one more role of it
in a sentence and this is an auxiliary
verb. Auxiliary means helping and it
will come in handy soon.
Pre-teach vocabulary (See
supplement).
Introduction Introduction Teacher: Today we are going to speak CW 100/0
2 minutes of today’s about your vacation activities and
Elapsed time class objective habits using Present Perfect (PP).
20 minutes (The Present Then we’ll try to work out a rule for
Perfect Tense) this tense.
Presentation Explain the Teacher: Before we can proceed to Listen and CW 50/50 Write
20 minutes grammar rule your vacation, let’s get back for a participate examples on
Elapsed time in the moment to your pictures. We’ll need by offering the board
40 minutes meaningful the verb to draw. As you already suggestions before
context. know, this is an irregular verb. Who . Answer beginning
can tell me the three forms of it questions, the
(present, past, and past participle)? think of presentation
Elicit: draw, drew, drawn. Ask a examples. .
volunteer to write it on the board. Try to work
If a teacher
Now think about your fruit and out a
doesn’t
vegetables. Are they real or…? Try to grammar
speak
define them using Past Participle of rule (with
students’ L1
the draw. teacher’s
or if the class
support).
Expect responses (prompt if needed): is
It is a drawn apple international
The banana is drawn. , make sure
to use
Teacher: Can you say: I have a drawn
simplified
apple? (Yes, I can.) Can we rephrase
language for
the sentence in some way? Try to
elicit answer or help them: Yes, we explanations,
can rephrase it, e.g.: also employ
I have drawn an apple. mime,
So, if you have something done, seen, gestures,
or heard, you now have a result. It and
may be some object, feeling, or expression.
experience. As we have the result now
we call this tense Present Perfect,
although it describes a past action or
event.
Draw the timeline on the board and
explain what it means. (Materials: 3
and supplement). Now you know
where the PP comes from. However,
its use is much broader (examples
written on the board before the
presentation):
Past events repeated up to now
(time of the start and the end is
not specified):
I have lived in the US for the last three
years. (and maybe live now)
Actions that started in the past
but continue to the present:
Hurry up! The film has already started
(and it goes on).
Past actions and events with a
result now:
I have drawn a picture (and now I have
it).
I have finished the project (and now
can have a rest).
Important: the time of action,
described with the Present Perfect is
not relevant. The focus is on what, not
on when.
Here is another example of the
affirmative sentence:
(+) Affirmative: The train has already
arrived.
Can you turn it into negative and
interrogative PP?
Elicit answers:
(–) Negative: The train has not arrived
yet.
(?) Interrogative: Has the train arrived
yet?
Now let’s look at the examples above
and try to find some patterns. Prompt
as needed:
(+) SUBJECT + HAVE/HAS + PAST
PARTICIPLE OF THE VERB
(–) SUBJECT + HAVE/HAS NOT + PAST
PARTICIPLE OF THE VERB
(?) HAVE/HAS + SUBJECT + PAST
PARTICIPLE OF THE VERB
Remind students about the short
forms (contractions):
I have = I’ve
he has = he’s
she has = she’s
we have = we’ve
you have = you’ve
they have =they’ve
Practice and Teacher: And now we are going to talk Practice GW/PW Mind the
Application about your vacation activities and speaking 10/90 odd number
20 minutes habits, at last! and ask of students,
Elapsed time questions play the role
Divide class into pairs and hand out a
60 minutes about their of collocutor
worksheet with questions about
vacation for one of
vacation to each group. Challenge
using them.
them to interview each other using
present
the following questions:
perfect in
1. Have you traveled a lot lately? full and
(Yes, I’ve traveled a lot.) contracted
form.
2. Have you ever traveled
abroad?
3. Have you been to The
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York?
4. Have you ever rented a car?
5. Have you flown a sport plane?
6. What have you seen that
made you think you wish you
see it again?
7. What is the best place you
have ever been to?
8. What country has impressed
you the most?
9. What has happened to you in
Brasilia?
10. Have you visited the Palace of
the Parliament yet?
11. What is the most exciting
thing you have seen while
traveling?
Mingle pairs or make small groups and
ask students to tell each other (within
a group) where they haven’t been yet
but wish to go. E.g., I haven’t been to…
I want to go there next summer.
Monitoring To make sure Allow students to ask each other CW 50/50
and every student simple questions using PP, monitor
evaluation has their answers, make corrections if
8 minutes understood needed. No functions to test, only a
Elapsed time the uses of topic. Ask students if they have any
68 minutes Present questions.
Perfect for
communicatio
n.
Video Watch and Watch and briefly discuss the VOA CW 50/50 Tell students
5 minutes discuss short video (Supplement: 5). Draw students’ that we
Elapsed time video to attention to the adverbs used with PP. watch this
73 minutes complement video for
students’ illustrative
knowledge. purposes.
Home Hand out photocopies of home CW 100/0
assignment assignment and explain what they
2 minutes have to do. (Material: 5 and
Elapsed time supplement).
75 minutes
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