Present Continuous Lesson Plan 1 [PDF]

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Lesson plan Teacher: Stepan Cristina School: ,, Arany Janos” High School, Salonta Date: 27th of May 2016 Grade: 6th D Level: elementary Textbook: Enterprise coursebook Unit of learning: Come rain or shine! Topic: Present Continuous tense Objectives: By the end of this lesson, the Ss will be able to: - know when to use the Present Continuous tense; - be able to form the affirmative, negative and interrogative form of the tense - develop their listening and speaking skills; Assumptions: I assume that my students are familiar with the verb TO BE in the Present Simple and that they have a basic knowledge of simple structures.



Anticipated problems: Pupils may not understand the existence of two Present tenses as such a form probably does not exist in their mother language. Students may also omit the auxiliary verbs or use the bare infinitive without an ing ending. Solutions: T. may use choral drill Teaching Aids:



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textbook; worksheets; blackboard; posters; flashcards;



laptop; CD Teaching techniques: elicitation -conversation



- questioning



-explanation



Stages of the lesson I. WARM UP Aims -



to get students ready for the English class by having an informal



conversation; -to warm them up



Procedure:



Teacher greets the students, introduces the guest and asks if



anybody is absent. She asks them how they are. Pupils respond to informal questions. T: Good morning, children! Ss: Good morning, teacher! T: How are you today? S: We’re fine, thank you! T: What’s the weather like today? Who’s on duty today? Who is absent? Ss answer the T’s questions.



Time: 3 minutes Interaction: T – Ss; Ss – T



CHECKING PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE Aims: -



to see if they remember vocabulary related to weather conditions and



clothes



Procedure: T checks the homework . Then she asks them a few questions about the weather conditions, the temperature and the clothes.



Time: 5 minutes Interaction: T – Ss; Ss – T



III. LEAD IN - mime actions Aims: - to set a situation and provide a context for the new grammar topic; - To motivate and elicit vocabulary - To revise/ introduce new vocabulary necessary for the presentation Procedure: Teacher prepares a set of cue cards with actions written on them. A student should take a card and mime the action. The other students must guess and say what action their partner is doing. e.g. You’re swimming. Teacher announces: “ Today we are going to learn about the present continuous tense.” Time: 5 minutes Interaction: Ss – T; T – SS; Ss -SS



IV. PRESENTATION Aim: - to make students understand how is present continuous formed - To make them understand when we use present continuous tense



Procedure:



Teacher shows students a picture of an old woman with her



binoculars. Teacher asks students the following question: “ Do you think she is a nice old woman or not?” Students answer. Teacher shows students an apartment building and tell the students that she is one of the neighbors of it. Teacher tries to say what the old woman does with her binoculars. e. g She watches the people that are in the building. ( She is spying them) Teacher then asks the students what they do when they are at home. ( watch Tv, listen to music, read) Teacher tells students that the old lady Carmen is looking through binoculars and tells her friend Sofia on the phone what the people are doing. With the teacher’s help, Ss try to elicit what are two women talking about. T. provides an example and writes it on the board. Students read the sentence individually. e.g. Where is Walter? He’s in the kitchen. What is he doing? He’s eating his breakfast. Then, teacher explains how is present continuous formed. Teacher: We form the PC form (known as the present participle) by adding ing to the base form. We drop –e if the base form ends in a single letter –e e.g. take – taking We double the consonant if:  The base form ends in a single vowel+ single consonant  E.g. sit – sitting



Exceptions are consonants: w, x, y Sew – sewing; box – boxing; play – playing  The base form has two syllables and ends in l  E.g. label – labelling We change a base form ending in ie to y We add k to the base form ending in c e.g. picnic – picnicking Teacher gives students some verbs and they will have to put the right ending. With the Ss’ help, T. explains how present continuous is formed. Time: 10 minutes Interaction: T – Ss; Ss - T CONTROLLED PRACTICE ( speaking) Aims: -to promote accuracy with regard to form and pronunciation Procedure: Teacher sets the same context. Sofia and Carmen are talking on the phone. Teacher is Sofia and Carmen are the SS. e.g. Where is ……? What is….. doing? Teacher asks Ss to work in pairs and to role play. Time: 6 minutes Interaction: Ss – SS



CONTROLLED PRACTICE ( writing)



Aims: -to check understanding of the patterns; Procedure: Teacher gives students a worksheet with an exercise in which they have to fill using the correct form of the verbs. Time: 5 minutes Interaction: Ss – Ss



PRODUCTION Aims: - to make a short dialogue using present continuous tense Procedure: Teacher provides students a context. Two men are in two different places. ( one is sitting on the beach and the other is at a party). They are talking to each other on the phone. Ss have to work in pairs and invent a short dialogue between the two. Teacher monitors and corrects where necessary and praises for effort all students. Time: 6 minutes Interaction: pair work



FEEDBACK Aims - To consolidate grammar structures and revise vocabulary -



to develop listening skills;



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to relax



Procedure: Teacher gives Ss a handout containing a song ( Lemon tree). Ss will have to listen to the song and fill in the blanks with the Present Simple and Present Continuous tense. Ss will listen to the song twice.



Time: 8 minutes Interaction: SS – SS; T – Ss; Ss – T



HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT Aims: to consolidate and reinforce learning done at school; -to help develop good work habits for the future Procedure: Teacher asks Ss to do the same thing as the old woman did at the beginning of the lesson. They will have to observe their family members and write at least five sentences about what they are doing Time: 2 minutes Interaction: T – Ss; Ss - T