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This was a fourth graders' class, and there were twenty students in the class. These students were on  intermediate level; in addition, they were very enthusiastic to tearn. The grammar point I tried to introduce to the students was the simple past tense and the past continous. furthermore, I tried to teach the students the difference between "while & when" while combining two sentences. what I wanted most was to make students practice a lot in a communicating way in the class. I enjoyed the lesson very much, and I felt as if I were their real teacher.
at the beginning of the lesson I showed some pictures about the main character of the story I would use. Then I distributed the story to the students and asked them to read it individually. After they have finished reading it, I asked some comprehension questions about the story. After that, I made groups of four, and gave each group a situation. I wanted them to make sentences using "when & while" and prepare a role-play using these situations. After this role-play activity, as the post activity I used two boxes in which there were sentences. I called on two students, asked them to choose a sentence from the boxes and show the sentence with their actions so that the class would guess what they were doing or what they did. they were supposed to make sentences with "when&while". this was my last activity, but there were three minutes left; therefore, as an extra activity,  I made them listen to a song which was about the actions. Students enjoyed these last activities, and the lesson finished.