LICEUL TEORETIC PANAIT CERNA BRAILA

LESSON PLAN
GRADE: 7th Form (Pre-Intermediate) DATE: 9th of October, 2009 TEACHER: Stoian Giorgiana LESSON: PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS TEXTBOOK: SNAPSHOT Pre-intermediate TIME: 50 min TEACHIND AIDS: textbooks, language booster, blackboard, teachers book, handouts, notebooks ASSUMPTION: Although SS were taught present simple and continuous a year before, they still find it difficult to work with these tenses, to make the difference between them ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS: SS are supposed to recognize habitual actions specific to the present simple and temporary actions specific to the present continuous. ACTIVITY 1: Warming up & checking homework T asks her SS how they are feeling and then checks the homework INTERACTION: T-S, S-T TIME: 5 min OBJECTIVE 1: to increase the SS interest in the use of Present Simple and Continuous ACTIVITY 2: T asks SS to tell what they usually do during a day. SS answer the question while T writes on the blackboard some of their answers. T asks whether they are doing something different today. Several SS answer and T also writes their answers on the blackboard. Starting from their answers on the blackboard, T elicits the rules to form the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms of Present Simple and Continuous. INTERACTION: T-S, S-T TIME: 10 min OBJECTIVE 2: to practise on the use of Present Simple and Continuous with their time adverbials. ACTIVITY 3: SS discuss the examples given in the textbook then SS are shown the example in Ex 7/ pg 10. They complete the exercise and check their answers with the whole class. INTERACTION: T-S, S-T TIME: 10 min OBJECTIVE 3: to practise the use of Present Simple and Continuous ACTIVITY 4: SS are given handouts involving present simple and continuous. SS are asked to put the verbs in the right form, to form negative and interrogative sentences to complete sentences using the two tenses. INTERACTION: T-S, S-S, S-T 1

TIME: 10 min OBJECTIVE 4: to produce questions and give answers in the Present Simple and Continuous ACTIVITY 5: T writes on the blackboard adverbials of time involving the tenses theyve just learnt about and SS, divided into three groups, have to build sentences starting from the given adverbial and also using the right tense. SS have to do the exercise as quickly as possible. INTERACTION: T-S, S-S, S-T TIME: 13 min OBJECTIVE 5: to give SS feedback on the grammatical structures taught. ACTIVITY 6: assigning homework L.B. EX 5/pg 6 Teachers appreciation TIME: 2 min