2.6.5 Tenses and Modals Review Lesson Plan

Lesson Procedure:

1. Identify the Tense. Pass out four index cards or pieces of card stock to each student. Instruct them to write one of the following tenses on each card: Present Tense / Past Tense / Future Tense / Modals. Before continuing, you may want students to refer to the Know More feature of this lesson, to review the tenses. Next, during a repeated viewing of the movie Mobylocks (L2U6L5), pause whenever an example of each tense is used. All the students must then hold up a card, identifying the tense. You may want them to elaborate further and state a reason that the specific tense is used.
2. Modal Mania. Review the various modals using the modals table on the board (see Preparation). Then have students select one modal from the table and construct a sentence using that modal. The sentence should be about something from the movie, such as Mobylocks should not eat the Bears’ soup. To go over the activity, call out a function (ability, advice, possibility, expectation, obligation, prohibition), and ask all students who used that one to read their sentences.
3. What's the Sequence? After watching the movie Mobylocks (L2U6L5), have the class, or pairs of students, use the sentence strips to sequence the events from the movie (see Preparation). Check the answers together on the interactive board, pocket chart, or tape the sentence strips to the board. Ask the students what tense is used in the sentence strips. Next, divide the class into small groups and assign either present tense or future tense to each group. You may have more than one group working on the same tense. Instruct students to divide up the 15 sentences from the sentence strips among the group members, and change each sentence to the tense they were assigned. Have the groups read their new stories to the class, as each student reads his/her sentence, in a Roundrobin.