Lesson plan 1 Verb Tenses: Past, Present, Future Fourth Grade

Introduction of the aims, players, sports events, culture (opening ceremony)	Teacher asks students, ‘What is Olympic Games nowadays?’ (sports games, competition) Share the results of the pre-assessment and introduce the sports items found by students. Introduce the ancient Olympic Games and emphasise the importance of religious value in ancient Olympic Games (e.g. even Spartans stopped war/there was truce during ancient Olympic Games). Introduce ancient Olympic Games with religious rituals in ancient Greece. Who could join the ancient Olympic Games? (Only male) Group Activity 1: Miming Game Invite students to demonstrate the action of the sports items in ancient Olympic Games. Other students try to guess the name of the items in ancient Olympic Games. What types of sports games were played in ancient Olympic Games? (Long jump, distance running, boxing, wrestling, chariot racing, throwing spears/javelins, throwing discus.)
Tiered questions: from factual recall to comparison from ancient to modern from basic knowledge to further readings Refer to Historical and interesting facts worksheet (Appendix 4) The miming game caters for learner diversity as some students learn better by adopting kinesthetic approach while some others prefer group activities.
5 mins	Feedback time	Introduce all sports events in ancient Olympic Games. Teacher explains some events related to the situation in ancient Greece.