LESSON PLAN

Lesson plan no: 03

DATE: TIME: SCHOOL: CLASS: III1

TEACHER:

Class profile: Intermediate , age 17

Teaching unit : Grammar: Present simple and present continuous

Type of lesson : Presentation/practice/revision

Aims and objectives : To revise and practice present simple and present continuous

Teaching methods : Presentation, fill in exercises

Class management : whole class, individual work

Teaching aids, materials

and equipment : students book, workbook, board, chalk
Sources: Gateway B1+ Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Book

Contingency plan: Short of time: Skip or reduce activity 1b

Plenty of time: Play pantomime: Ask a student to come to the front and mime doing an action. Other students ask
questions using present continuous, e.g. Are you drinking/eating...etc?, the student answers with Yes/No. The
student who guesses is the next to mime the action.
 STAGES

Aims and Class organization procedures and activities Teaching Possible problems

TIMING
objectives aids and and solutions
materials
partIntroductory

To revise main In order to find out how much students remember about these tenses write these seven uses of the board If students seem to be
uses of present present simple and present continuous on the board and ask students to write example sentences in their very familiar with the use
simple and notebooks. and form of these two
present tenses, move quickly 10
A routines and habits, B things that are always or generally true, C scientific facts, D actions that are
continuous through the exercises. min
happening now or near the time of speaking, E actions that are temporary or not a normal routine, F
If they have forgotten
actions that happen very often and annoy the speaker, G changing situations. some of the uses, explain
them briefly.

Ask students to open their SBs on page 8 If some students still have
To revise and 1a Students match sentences 17 with rules ag. problems with these two
Main part

practice present 1b Students rewrite sentences 1 and 2 in the negative and interrogative form. tenses, encourage them
simple and to see grammar reference
Study skills
present on p. 16 in their SBs.
Ask students which two things students need to know about a grammatical structure to use it correctly
continuous
(form and use) (its form and use). Elicit how students can study grammar effectively and tell them to turn to page 146 to SB, WB 30
compare their ideas. min
2 Ask students to look at the adverbs of frequency and choose the correct alternative to complete the
rules ad.
3 Ask students to complete the text with the present simple or present continuous form of the verbs and
the adverbs given.
4 Ask students to do exercises 1 and 2 in their workbooks, and drill the uses of present simple and
present continuous once more.
partFinal

Ask students to write the names of three people who annoy them in some way. They can be
Shortly revise people they know personally or famous people. Then ask them to write about the annoying WB
presented habits of the three people, e.g. My sister is always borrowing my clothes. My brother is 5 min
grammar
always playing on the computer.
Set homework: Workbook, p 4, exercises 3 and 4