Before the Test: Mastering the Past Perfect
ESL Lesson PlansBefore the Test: Mastering the Past Perfect

Before the Test: Mastering the Past Perfect

This ESL lesson plan focuses on teaching the past perfect tense in a fun and interactive 45-minute session for teens in a group setting. The lesson includes a warm-up discussion about test preparation strategies, a dialogue activity with true/false statements, and grammar-focused exercises to practice sentence formation. Students will also improve their speaking and writing grammar skills through engaging pair work and group discussions.

Skills

  • Shows a relatively high degree of grammatical control. Does not make mistakes which lead to misunderstanding.
  • Can take an active part in informal discussion in familiar contexts, commenting, putting a point of view clearly, evaluating alternative proposals and making and responding to hypotheses.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Warm-up: Discuss the questions with your group.

1. How do you usually prepare for an important test? 2. How long in advance do you start? 3. Do you have any useful tips or strategies you can share for preparing for a test?
2

Read the dialogue and mark the statements as true or false.

3

Study the grammar rule. Then find five examples of the past perfect in the dialogue above.

4

Put the words in the right order to make sentences using the past perfect.

5

Think about a test you took in the past and finish the sentences below with your own ideas.