Language and Content: Past Perfect

GRADES 3-5; 6-8; 9-12

LESSON PROCEDURE

Vocabulary

1. Watch the Vocabulary movie to introduce the new words, stopping to ask questions, give examples, and ask students to make connections to the words.
2. Ask students to Make Connections to the vocabulary words.
3. Project the picture side of Flash Words onto the board or interactive white board. Students label the words they know and then flip the pictures to check if they are correct.

Grammar

1. To introduce the concept of Past Perfect, and to be able to visualize the idea of one event happening before another, draw a timeline on the board marked with the hours of the day. Tell the students that this is what happened yesterday. Then write sentences, or place sentence strips, about things that you did at different places on the timeline. After placing sentences on the timeline, encourage students to form sentences using the past perfect and the past simple.
2. Watch the Grammar movie. Check that students know which event happened first.
3. Students complete the image What Happened First? When they have finished, have partners collaborate on their own drawings to illustrate the use of the past perfect. They must draw two events, one happening before the other. To check the activity, students can pass their drawings around the room, as in a chain, so that all partners have a chance to discuss captions for all the drawings.

Movie

1. Watch the movie I Had Overslept!(L3U3L4).
2. Students do the I Had Overslept worksheets.

Features

1. Watch Hear It, Say It. Students may listen and repeat sentences from the movie.
2. Have students do a dictation with the Hear It, Say It sentences.
3. Students do the remaining interactive features of the lesson: Play It, Warm Up, and You Can Do It.