Intermediate Grammar/ Ms.

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Topic What do you like to do? (Simple Present)

Time Period 1 hour
Goal Students will understand how to use simple
verbs.

Objective Students will learn how to listen for

information about learn how to write about
usual activities during the week and on the
weekend;

Lesson Plan Time Teaching Materials

Preview/Warm-up:
5 minutes Exercise 13, page
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Very short activity designed to help students activate their
language, just like stretching before exercise or tuning an
instrument before a performance. The goal is to have students
begin class ready to practice and actively participate.
On screen directions: Complete the sentences with your own
words
1. I got up at ________ today. (time)
2. I have been awake since ________ (time)
3. I went to Disneyland_______ times this year. (number)
4. I took my first English class in ________ . (year)
5 minutes
Discussion: In class discussion,
In which sentences does the action start and end in the past? no material
Which sentences have an action that starts in the past and (working on
continues until now? speaking)
What do you notice about the verb tenses?

15 minutes
Lecture:
Introducing: Present Perfect Unit 5: Page 56
1.Present Perfect is used to talk about an action that began in the
past and comes up now
2. This introduction will help students understand that the subject
comes first.
Affirmative: Subject + Have / Has + Past Participle
Negative: Subject + Haven't / Hasn't +
Past Participle Question:
Have / Has + Subject + Past Participle Pair Activity
3.Sentences are written down on the board, and at random,
students names are called upon request. For example:
Jimena, have you ever been to the world of Harry Potter?
(You would want to write their responses on the board)
When did you go to the world of Harry Potter?
4. All sentences will be randomized for flexibility and once
students are called and finished with their speaking responses
high five each student.

FUN Activity: TRUE OR FALSE? 15 minutes Exercise 15, Page

1. Divide students into groups of four. 57 (Markers,
2. Students will have some markers and a big poster paper where Poster Paper)
they will be thinking, writing and sharing with their class on the
interesting and unusual things they have done in the past. They
can draw it out or can write it out. This way, students will have
the opportunity to work on their speaking skills and listening
skills.
3. After the timer is up, groups will be presenting to their class
and will have to guess which statement is not true for their
classmate.

EXAMPLE: Think, Write, Share.

3. Think of some interesting and unusual things you have done in
the past. Write 4-6 sentences, some of them true some of them
false.
Share your sentences with a partner. Guess if your class mates 10 minutes Exercise 16, Page
statements are true or not. 58

Reserve/Plan-B Activity:
1. Have students break off into pairs.
2. Students will be working on Brainstorming their daily
routines by building a concept map like the one shown
below. Students will discuss what each routine is to their
partner.
3. The teacher will be drawing out a brainstorming map
example
4. They will be asking each other questions such as the
questions that were used with the lecture
5. This exercise, asks students to accurately and
appropriately
 10 minutes Exercise 17, Page
58

OR

To refresh their minds on using verbs, students can play the game
of Food Glorious Food. This board game is excellent when
reviewing how to use verbs when it comes to ordering your food
at a restaurant and/or saying the kind of food the student likes.
Students will be paired up in teams of 3 and will take turns rolling
a dice and answer the following board game questions when its
their turn to play.

Wrap-up/Feedback:
Solicit answers from students, refer to warm-up sentences if
needed
1. What are the differences between the simple past and present
perfect?
2. How can you recognize present perfect?
3. When do you use present perfect?

Sample Sentences during Instruction

1. Fatima is from a cold and dry region of South America. She (see, never) __________ snow.

2. A major tornado (occur, just)______________ in California. It (occur)___________ at 9:25a.m.

Pacific Standard Time.

3. Mrs. Yenda (be)__________ in our class for three months, but she moved away to Italy.

4. Yesterday my dance team and I (start)_________a new dance project, so we (go)________to

the training at the dance studio.

5. Maria (be)___________in the class for two months. Her English is getting better and better.

6. Michael Jackson? Yes, I know him. I (see)___________ him on Television.