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LEAD-IN ACTIVITY I

After greeting, the teacher will write "CINDERELLA" on the board, and
then the teacher will ask the students what they know about her. They will talk about her story.

Then the teacher will read a new version of Cinderalla, in which he would have changed some important point such as using ring to find Cinderella instead of the shoe.

After reading the story, the teacher will want the students to write anew version of Cinderella, and want them to choose one character from the story and ask him/her why s/he would have behaved so.

Through this activity the teacher can see Simple Past level of the students. While they are reading their stories, the teacher will note their Simple Past tense mistakes.Then the teacher will lecture about their mistakes.

LEAD-IN ACTIVIY II

After greeting, the teacher will ask the students what they have done in their break time. The teacher will use simple past tense while asking the questions, and they will talk about their break time actions. They will talk in Simple Past Tense because they will think their actions Simple Past Tense. While they are speaking, the teacher will write some of them on the board. After they all speak, the teacher will start to lecture Present Perfect Tense.Through this process the teacher will see Simple Past level of the students and warm-up them for Present Perfect Tense.

Submitted by Ali Osman GÜNES 3-C/ELT

HAVE A LOUGH

‘Come on, Andrew.’ Said his mother. ‘Hurry up or you’ll be late for school.’
‘ I don’t want to go to school.’ said Andrew.
‘ But you must.’ insisted his mother.
‘The teachers all hate me, and I hate them.’ moaned Andrew.
‘ Even so...’ began his mother;
‘ The children don’t like me and I don’t like them either.’ said Andrew.
‘ You still have to go.’ said his mother.
‘ But why must I?’ he asked, his eyes filling with tears.
‘ Well,’ replied his mother, ‘ first of all, you are fifty years old, and seconly, you are the headmaster of the school...’

I want to teach the difference between ‘must’ and ‘have to’. I will begin the lesson by telling this joke.

A SIMPLE GESTURE

Mark was walking home from the school and came accross with a boy. The
boy was carrying lots of things in his hands. He dropped some of his books. Mark knelt down and helped him.. He discovered that the boy’s name was Bill. They realized that they like the same things.... While they were walking, Bill talked about his problemles about his lessons and girlfriend..

After that day, they continued to see each other and they became good friends. One day, Bill wanted to talk to Mark. He reminded the first day when they firs met. ‘ Do you ever wonder why I was carrying some many things?’ asked Bill. ‘ You see, I cleaned out my locker. Because I was going home to commit suicide. But after we spend some time with you, I realized that I might miss that time and the other times. So, Mark when you picked up my books you did a lot more. YOU SAVED MY LIFE.’

By reading this short story at the beginning of the lesson, I will teach ‘ past continuous tense’.

Submittted by, Dilek Ahraz 3-C/ELT

LEAD-IN ACTIVITY I

After greeting the students, The teacher sticks 4 pictures on the board which indicate the usage of "must and must not" form. The pictures also include which must be done and must not be done in the classroom or school.
i.e. In the first picture; there is a boy listening music with walkman in the classroom, in the secon picture; there are students running in the school coridor, in the third one; there is a boy talking in the library, and in the last one; there is a cigarette which there is cross on. Then the teaher ask the students where the people in the picture are, and what they must or must not do. And the students make sentences about pictures.

LEAD-IN ACTIVITY II

After greeting the students, the teacher draws a table on the board which has 2 columns. One part includes what they are fond of doing; and the other includes what they are fed up with doing. Then the teacher wants them to talk about these and writes these things on the right column of the table.
Later, the teacher talks about his or her "likes and dislikes"

i.e. I like swimming in the pool.
I dislike eat fish.

Then the teacher starts to lecture the topic "like and dislike form"

Submitted by Haluk MENEMENCIOGLU 3-C/ELT
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In the first lead in activity, I will sing a song call their attention into the Past Tense.

LA ISLA BONITA
Last night I dreamt of San Pedro
Just like I’d never gone I knew before
Young girl with eyes like the desert
It all seems like yesterday not for away
Tropical and Island breeze
All of nature wild and free
This is where I long to be La isla Bonita
And when the sam to played
The sun would set so high ring
Through my ears
Through my eyes
Your spmish lulla by
I won’t to be where the sun won the sky
When the time pass your fiesta
You’ll watch them go by
Beautiful faces no cares in this world
When the girl after boy the boy loves a girl

In the second lead in activity, I will teach conditional clauses to students so, I can read one of the poems before the lesson.

I. WHEN YOU GROW UP
If you are beautiful
When you grow up
We will be pleased
And if you look like your father
We will still be quite pleased
If you are angry at the world
We will understand

If you fight us
We will try
not to fight back

If you grow up
to be an artist
an airline pilot
or an import-export-expert
that will be fine
Shop assistant
Sheep farmer
Professor of paleontology
Will be great
Anything you want to be
Will be fine

If you become rich and famous
don’t worry
We will not be too proud
to live on your money

If you marry
Marry anybody you want to
We will not mind
It will be your decision
You will be absolutely free.
Nobody will be good enough for you anyway
(only don’t marry somebody we don’t like)

If you realise
One day
that your parents are idiots
We hope you will tell us
in the nicest possible way

Have a good life

Submitted by Neslihan Avan 3-C/ELT

again from Neslihan...

II. WEATHER FORECAST
Tomorrow
If it rains
I will dance in the rain with you

If it snows
We will make snow pancakes
and eat them together

If it is cold
I will warm myself
With your smile

If it is hot
I will cool myself
With your slow clear voice

If there is fog
I will be happy
to lose myself for a time
(But please come and find me won’t you?)

III. I thought that the students learned the simple past tense on the last lesson and today, before the lesson, I want to play a game with them about the past events in order to remind them the subject.

GAME ABOUT THE PAST
A) In the first part I ask students what did they do yesterday? And then in three minutes, I want them to write as many sentences as them can about what they did yesterday by using a sheet of paper.
B) In the second part, they work in group and I ask students to take turns reading their sentences aloud. After each sentence is read. I ask everyone who wrote the same sentence to cross it out. Next, the person with the largest number of sentences that are not crossed out wins.

Submitted by Neslihan Avan 3-C/ELT

Hello. my lead activity are a joke and showing pictures. I give you the joke.

Mrs. Williams loved flowers and had a small but beautiful garden. In the summer, her roses were always the best in her street. One summer afternoon her bell rang, and when she went to the front door, she saw a small boy outside. He was about seven years old, and was holding a big bunch of beautiful roses in his hand.
'I am selling roses' , he said. 'Do you want any? They are quite cheap. Five pence for a big bunch. They are fresh. I picked them this afternoon.'
'My boy,' Mrs. Williams answered, ' I pick roses whenever I want, and don't pay anything for them, because I have lots in my garden.'
'Oh, no, you haven't,' said the small boy. 'There aren't any roses in your garden-because they are here in my hand!'

I can use this joke in teaching Simple Past Tense and countable and uncountable nouns.

Submitted by Fatma Kirlar 3-C/ELT

HAVE A LOUGH

A young lady went to a fortune teller to have her fortune told. The fortune teller answered two questions for 100 dollars. Although she was surrprised at the amount she had to pay, the young lady gave her the money.

‘Don’t you think that 100 dollars is rather a lot of money for just two questions?’

‘Yes, it is,’ answared the fortune teller, ‘Now, what is your second question?’

I will teach ‘past tense’ with the help of this joke.

SHORT STORY

At the beginnning of the lesson, the teacher asks the students whether they like stories, write storrries or not. S/he may also ask them what their favourite stories are. Then , the teacher reads a story by the Greek writer, Aesop.

Once upon a time there was an old man. This old man had a monkey. The old man often fell asleep in his chair in the afternoonns. The monkey sat next to him and chased the flies away. One afternoon the old man was very tiredd so he fell asleep in his chair. A fly came quietly and sat on the old man’s nose. The monkey chased the fly away. Soon the fly came back and sat on the old man’s nose again. The monkey chased it away, but he got very angry. He ran to the garden quickly and picked up a large stone.

The fly sat on the old man’s nose a third time. The monkey hit the fly with the stone. He killed the fly, but he also broke the old man’s nose.

This story can be told to the students in order to introduce and provide them to hear the ‘simple past tense’. In the first reading of the teacher, the students will listen the story and in the second listening the students will select the words in the past tense.

Submitted by, Rabia Deynekçi 3-C/ELT

Lead-in Activity to teach Simple Present Tense and frequency adverbs.

by showing pictures,

Jack Turner is a postman. He works for the post office and, he usually works with the help of a motor-cycle. He delivers letters to about a hundred houses spread over a large area of hilly, farming country. This is his official job, but it is only a small part of the work he actually does. Besides taking letters to different houses, he often helps the people in his area in different ways. When they are ill, he finds a doctor for them; he sometimes goes shopping for them; and he carries the daily news from house to house.

Submitted by Fatma Kirlar 3-C/ELT

I can use this story to teach type 2 If clauses while showing pictures related with the topic.

A POOR FARMER
A poor farmer once had a friend who was famous for
the wonderful apple trees which he grew. One day his
friend gave the farmer a young tree and told him to
take it home and plant it. The farmer was pleased with
the gift, but when he got home he didnot know where
to plant it.
If he planted the tree near the road, strangers would steal the fruit. If he planted it in one of his fields, his neighbours would come at night at steal some of the apples.

Submitted by Gullu Mike 3-C/ELT