Lesson Plan

Teacher: Melania (Anghelu) Zmu

Date: 12th June 2015
Form: 4th grade
Level of study: Pre-intermediate
Lesson: Present Tense Simple. Present tense Continuous
Type of lesson: Revision lesson
Time: 50 min.
Teaching methods:
the audio-lingual approach
the audio-visual approach
the communicative approach
the natural approach
Teaching techniques:
conversation
repetition
class organisation (individual/pair/group work)
Materials: blackboard, pictures, posters, worksheets
Anticipated problems: The Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens, they will be translated into
Romanian.
Aims:
-to reactivate the previously taught material;
-to practise their language using Present Tense Simple and Continuous;

-to recognize the usage of Present Tense Simple and Continuous;

to encourage students to learn the English language through dialogues, games, conversation;
to develop reading, speaking, writing, listening skills;
to stimulate students imagination.
Objectives:
a) cognitive:
to reinforce vocabulary and grammar structures
to learn and improve word pronunciation
to communicate efficiently using their language
to pronounce correctly
b) affective:
to stimulate students imagination
to make the students confident in the ability to use the language
to use English while playing
to have fun
Stages of the lesson
I.

Warm-up

II.
Checking
homework

Teachers activity

Students activity

Teacher
greets
the Students answer
students and asks for
absentees
Teacher asks students to Students read
present their homework

Interaction

Skill

Time

Purpose
- to prepare the
students
for
the
lesson
- to check students
understanding of the
previous lesson and
correct
possible
mistakes

lockstep

speaking

T-Ss

reading

III.
Introducing
new material
a) Pre-teaching

Teacher
asks
the
students to complete a
puzzle in order to find
the mysterious word.
(see Annex 1) Teacher
asks the students to
come to the blackboard
and complete the puzzle
Teacher announces the
objectives
Today we are going to:
Revise Present
Tense
Simple
and Continuous
Consolidate the
knowledge about
Present
Tense
Simple
and
Continuous.
Teacher writes on the
blackboard the title of
the lesson and asks the
students to do the same
in their notebooks.
Teacher
asks
the
students to think about
the Present Tense and to
report what they know
about it

Students listen

T-Ss

listening

Students complete the

puzzle

to
stimulate
students imagination
- to create interest in
the topic of the tenses

speaking
writing
Students listen

Students write the lockstep

title of the lesson on
their notebooks

writing

Students listen and

answer the questions.

listening
speaking
T-Ss

1
- to reactivate and
vocabulary
- to learn and
improve
word
pronunciation

b) Activity 1
Revision

c) Activity 2
Revision

d) Activity 3

Teacher gives each

student a worksheet
(exercises with Present
Tense Simple). Teacher
asks the students to look
at the picture from
exercise one (see Annex
2) and match the
pronouns with the verbs
correctly.
Teacher
checks the answers and
asks the students to
write the sentences in
their notebooks.

writing
Students look at the
picture, the spelling
of the words and they
match them
lockstep
- to exercise writing
5
- to check and
consolidate grammar
and understanding the
meaning of the words

speaking

to
communicate
efficiently using their
language

Students check them

and write the correct
sentences on their T-Ss
notebooks

T-Ss
Teacher
asks
the
students to choose the
correct word (exercise
2) in order to complete
the sentences and then Students complete the
to read them aloud.
sentences
Teacher
oversees Students listen to her
students activity
T-Ss
Teacher
asks
the
students to match the
words from exercise 3 in
order to revise the
negative form of Present
tense Simple

writing
speaking

Students obey the

commands given by
the teacher (they look
at the picture and
match the words

reading

speaking

to
grammar

speaking
writing
5

reinforce

given)

e) Activity 4
(revision)

f) Activity 5

IV.

Feed-back

V.

Homework

Teacher
asks
the
students to complete the
sentences from exercise
4 (see Annex 3) with
the correct negative
form of Present Simple

Students complete the T-Ss

sentences, recognize
the negative form of
the Present Tense
Simple

Students look at the

picture and then ask
Teacher
asks
the and answer the
students to look at questions
Tonys
room
from
exercise 5 and then ask
and answer questions
about his habits and
hobbies, as in the
example (see Annex 3)

T-Ss

Teacher
asks
the
students to put the verbs
in brackets in the correct
form
Teacher
asks
the
students to make up
sentences using Present
Tense Simple

lockstep

Students complete the

sentences with the
correct form of the
verb

listening
speaking
writing

5
- to recognize the
negative form of the
Present Tense Simple
and to use it correctly

listening
writing
5

listening
speaking
writing

- to let students know

how
well
they
performed