NAME ISHRAT NAZ

DIPLOMA IN TEFL

ROLL NUMBER BR566148

COURSE CODE 5663

TOPIC PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

 Lesson Plan Framework

Name Date No of Class Length Level of Skills in

Of Co- & Students of English focus/general/function
ordintor Time lesson
03:00 30 EFL 40min. Lower Listening/Speaking/with
pm intermediat focus on WH Questions for
19th e learning and daily usage
July
2019

Main Aim:
The students will use of Affirmative/ Negative sentences and simple/wh questions
using present continuous tense for daily routine.

Sub Aims (SMART Objectives)

1. The learners will be able to recall definition of present continuous tense.

2. The students will be able to comprehend the affirmative, negative sentence and
WH question by using present continuous Tense.
3. They will be able to practice the affirmative ,negative sentence and WH
-questions using present continuous Tense.
4. They will be able to play a role between a detective and a suspect using present
continuous. Affirmative/negative and WH questions in order to interrogate for
reconfirmation.
5. The learners will be able to write their own dialogue between interlocuters using
present continuous Tense affirmative /negative and WH questions for daily
routine.

Class Profile:
It is lower Intermediate learners’ class, which is comprised 30 students only. Most of
them are matric students. They are about 14 to 16 years’ old. Most of them belong to
a middle class. They are highly motivated and would like to learn English because
they would like to use it in their academic settings in order to pass their exam. They
are motivated because they want to attain high social status and progress in English
language learning. They belong to District Swabi.

Previous Knowledge:
Students should be familiar with pronouns & present tense ‘to be’, including contracted
forms. They also need basic classroom vocabulary and commands including listen, talk,
read, write, open, close, pick up, stand up, sit down. Students should be from cultures
that allow group competitions

Rationale for what I will teach, based on learners’ needs and

previous knowledge:
The learners are taught this structure so that they will be able to revise the previous
structures(Present Simple) and will be able to use Present Continuous tense for the
purpose of reconfirmation in real life conversations.

Assessment and Evaluation:

The teacher will be observing his/her students during their performance
throughout the class activities so that he/she will be able to know their areas of
improvement and will devise activities in the next class accordingly.

Language Skills: Listening / Speaking / Writing / Reading :

Language Function and System {Simple /WH Questions used for reconfirmation)

Anticipated Problems:
There are variety of structures used in Negative Question and WH Questions which
will confuse the students if confronted by the students.
Suggested Solutions:
The rest of structures of Present Continuous tense used for Future will be
consolidated in the next few classes.

Lesson Plan
Stages Time Procedure/Activity Skills in Stage Aim
types of for Steps to be followed Focus
each
Interactio activity
n Genre/fu
nction

Listening/ The purpose

(Warm Up) Speaking/ of the activity
Confidence is to activate
Activity 1: developmen the students
Teacher + 4
class t Schema.
interaction, min The teacher will ask the
Student + students to stand in two
Student rows face to face to each
Interaction other and will tell them to
will be introduce themselves to
exploited.
each other in pairs and
after each minute, they will
change partners.

Loud
(Presentation) Activity 2: Reading
The teacher will take place the
Teacher + 4 following dialogue via chart on the The Purpose
Class min. board. The teacher will ask two of of the
Interaction, the students to read the dialogue activity is to
Teacher + loudly and then he/she will ask his arouse the
Student students to tell him about the schematic
Interaction purpose of the present continuous information
simple sentences used in the about the
dialogue that why they have been target
used. Finally the teacher will structure.
explain the situation of the target
structure.

Dialogue
De/Prese
present
Definition: It is used to express continuou
ongoing action at present time s Tense
and an action which is in
progress at the time of speaking.
10
 min. The following formulas will be
written on the board which will be
practiced by the class.
Affirmative;

Subject + Auxiliary Verb +

Present Participle form of the
main verb+obj.
Subject + Is / Am / Are + Present
Participle+obj.

Negative;

Subject + Auxiliary Verb +not+

Present Participle form of the
main verb+obj.
Subject + Is / Am / Are +not+
Present Participle+obj.

Simple Question;

Auxiliary Verb+Subject + Present

Participle form of the main
verb+obj?
Is / Am / Are + Subject +Present
Participle+obj?

WH Question;

WH+Auxiliary Verb+Subject +
Present Participle form of the
main verb+obj? The Purpose
WH+Is / Am / Are + Subject of the
+Present Participle+obj?
activity will
Stage 3: be to enable
Activity 3:
the students
The learners will be able to revise
Practice: to WH
and will repeat the present
question can
continuous affirmative/negative
Teacher+ be used for
Class sentence and interrogative/ WH
reconfirmati
Interaction, question after the Demo.
Student + on and will
Student practice it.
Interaction
will take
place.
.
Production:
Activity 4:
Student + The teacher will divide the Wh
Student 10 learners into pairs and will ask question The learners
Interaction practice will get more
will happen. min. them to practice present
continuous tense Affirmative with confident and
different be motivated
Student + Negative sentence and Simple/ subjects by the teacher
Student WH questions using different using to have a
Interaction subjects. present controlled
affirmative practice of the
as well as target
Am
negative structure.
I ‘m sentence
We Are
You ‘re
They Playin Footb
He Is g all
She ‘s
It
Speaking
skills
practice of
the
Affirmativ
e ,negative
After they practice present and WH
continuous tense Affirmative questions
sentence and Wh questions, they In real life
will also practice on present like
negative sentence and simple situation
questions according to the
diagram written on the board by
the teacher.
The students
Activity 5: will be able to
use the
targeted
Follow up: 6 The teacher will instruct the Writing structure
min. learners to have a role play in /Affirmati freely, which
pairs of a detective and a suspect ve, will enable
in which the detective will them to get
negative more
investigate the suspect about the sentences understanding
problems of Pakistan Education and WH of the
Systems by using Affirmative Question structure.
/Negative Sentences and The learners
will have a free
 Interrogative/ wh questions of practice during
present continuous tense. The this activity
and the
teacher will circulate among the teacher will
students if they have any play the role of
problems, he/she will facilitate just a
them. facilitator.
Home Task
Activity 6:
Writing a Home Task
dialogue
The learners will be asked to write
between 6
a dialogue between a father and a
father and a min.
son using present continuous They already
son using
tense Affirmative/Negative have practiced
Affirmative , the same
Sentences and Interrogative/WH
Negative activity spoken
Questions for the purpose of vise, now they
,Simple and
learning about her routine in will be given a
WH
college and they will bring the practice of
questions in written as well.
home task the next day which will
present
be checked by the teacher and will
Continuous.
devise activities according to their
Tense for
needs for the next class.
learn simple
present
continuous
tense .