Lesson Plan

School: Secondary School “Victor Popescu”, Valea cu Apa, Farcasesti

Teacher: Canavea Elena-Cristina
Class: 5th grade
Level: Beginners
Textbook: English G 2000 (Ed. All Educational)
Type of lesson: consolidation
Topic: Present Tense Simple vs. Present Tense Continuous ­
(“David and his friends”). 
Vocabulary: daily activities, the days of the week, adverbs of
frequency: usually, always, every day, every week….,the days of the
week, adverbs of the Present Tense Continuous- now, right now…. .
Skills: Speaking, Reading ,Writing ,Listening.
Techniques: conversation, observation, discovery and discussion,
dialogues, explanation, exercise, game.
Resources: notebooks, handouts(text-based ’”David and his friends”,
blackboard, audio-visual materials – “The Playground” ; PowerPoint
presentation on Present Tense Simple vs.Present Tense Continuous,
textbook, pictures.
Interaction- T-S, S-S, pair work , group work,CL
Anticipated problems: The Ss may not understand some oral
commands or tasks; if this happens, they will be translated into
Romanian
Bibliography: Vizental, Adriana – Metodica predarii limbii engleze,
Polirom, Iasi, 2007
Aims:
- To revise the main words and
structures learnt so far- Present Tense Simple,
Present Tense Continuous, the adverbs of
frequency, the days of the week, expressing the
time.
- To develop reading, speaking, writing, listening
skills.
- To consolidate students’ knowledge on Present
Tense Continuous
- To practice the use of Present Tense Simple and
Present Tense Continuous in contrast.
- To encourage students to learn the English
language through dialogues, games,
conversation
- To give students more practice on grammar,
pronunciation and vocabulary .

~ Stages:
    STAGE  THE  THE  INTERACTIO SKILLS OBJECTIVES
Timing
        OF  TEACHER’S  STUDENT’S  N

    LESSON ACTIVITY  ACTIVITY

The teacher greets The students answer:- ~To prepare the children

1.Warm-up the students Good morning for the lesson, to

-Good morning teacher.. CL Speaking remember the greetings.

children! -We’re fine, thanks…

Checking the 5min.
- How are you ? ~To check the
previous homework, correct the
Homework check.
knowledge mistakes.
~To check the previous
knowledge.

The teacher asks

2.Passage to the students questions T-S Speaking ~To revise Present Tense 5min.

about their daily The students answer Simple ;

new lesson
activities and then the questions. Pair Work
(Lead in)
 about what are they In pairs,students
doing now – make short dialogues ~To practice the Present
What do you usually based on these type of Tense Continuous .
do…? questions.
What are you doing Speaking
now?.. The students listen to T-S
Do you write every the teacher and write Listening
day? the title .
What are you doing CL
now?
Are you writing
now?

The teacher
announces the topic.

The teacher shows ~To check the Students’

Activity 1 the students a ability to use the Tenses

8min.
PowerPoint They students look at Reading properly.
presentation on the images, read the Speaking
Present Tense text and answer the Writing ~To understand the
 Simple vs. Present questions. situations when the two
Tense Continuous. T-S Tenses are used.
~To use the Tenses in
contrast.

The teacher gives ~To consolidate the

the students knowledge on how
10min.
handouts (“David T-S Present Tense Simple and
Activity 2 and his friends”) The students look at Present Tense
and asks them to the images, read and Continuous are used, in
look at the pictures translate the text. CL Reading different situations.
and to read the text- ~To practice
The teacher asks the pronunciation
S to translate the
text.

~ To check S’s
The teacher asks the CL Reading understanding of the text. 2min
students to answer The students answer Speaking
Activity 3
some questions the questions.
(Reading
based on the given
comprehension) text.

~To revise and

The teacher divides consolidate the
the students into structures: Present Tense
four groups and Simple vs. Present Tense
gives them students Continuous, the adverbs
handouts and In groups, students Writing of time; expressing the 10min
pictures. The teacher complete the task. Group work time; the days of the
Activity 4
asks the students to The students from Reading week.
talk about a each group present Speaking ~To check the S’s ability
character following their character’s to use the information
the model in the text week. previously presented.
and by describing
the pictures.

~to develop listening

skills
The teacher asks the The students answer Listening
~to check their 3min.
students some the questions . They T-S understanding of the
questions about the topic.
can also ask questions Speaking
Activity 5 characters presented to their colleagues. S-S
by their colleagues. ~to develop listening
The teacher asks the skills
students to watch a ~to check their
video –( “The The students watch Listening understanding of the
5 min
Playground” ) and to topic.
the video and answer T-S Speaking
Activity 6 answer some ~ to prepare the students
the questions . CL
questions about the for the homework
activities presented assignment.
in the video .

2min.

CL
Homework The students write in
The teacher asks the
their notebooks the
~To develop writing
students to create a
instruction for the
skills
project called “A
written assignment. Writing
~To consolidate their
week with my
knowledge
friends”.
Obs.

Obs.