Lesson plan

Teacher: Stepan Cristina

School: ,, Arany Janos High School, Salonta
Date: 27th of May 2016
Grade: 6th D
Level: elementary
Textbook: Enterprise coursebook
Unit of learning: Come rain or shine!
Topic: Present Continuous tense
Objectives: By the end of this lesson, the Ss will be able to:
- know when to use the Present Continuous tense;
- be able to form the affirmative, negative and interrogative form
of the tense
- develop their listening and speaking skills;
Assumptions: I assume that my students are familiar with the verb TO BE in the
Present Simple and that they have a basic knowledge of simple structures.

Anticipated problems: Pupils may not understand the existence of two Present
tenses as such a form probably does not exist in their mother language. Students
may also omit the auxiliary verbs or use the bare infinitive without an ing ending.
Solutions: T. may use choral drill
Teaching Aids:

textbook; worksheets; blackboard; posters; flashcards;

laptop; CD
Teaching techniques: elicitation
-conversation

- questioning

-explanation

Stages of the lesson

I. WARM UP
Aims -

to get students ready for the English class by having an informal

conversation;
-to warm them up

Procedure:

Teacher greets the students, introduces the guest and asks if

anybody is absent. She asks them how they are. Pupils respond to informal
questions.
T: Good morning, children!
Ss: Good morning, teacher!
T: How are you today?
S: Were fine, thank you!
T: Whats the weather like today?
Whos on duty today?
Who is absent?
Ss answer the Ts questions.

Time: 3 minutes
Interaction: T Ss; Ss T

CHECKING PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE

Aims: -

to see if they remember vocabulary related to weather conditions and

clothes

Procedure: T checks the homework . Then she asks them a few questions about
the weather conditions, the temperature and the clothes.

Time: 5 minutes
Interaction: T Ss; Ss T

III. LEAD IN - mime actions

Aims: - to set a situation and provide a context for the new grammar topic;
- To motivate and elicit vocabulary
- To revise/ introduce new vocabulary necessary for the presentation
Procedure: Teacher prepares a set of cue cards with actions written on them. A
student should take a card and mime the action. The other students must guess and
say what action their partner is doing.
e.g. Youre swimming.
Teacher announces: Today we are going to learn about the present continuous
tense.
Time: 5 minutes
Interaction: Ss T; T SS; Ss -SS

IV. PRESENTATION
Aim: - to make students understand how is present continuous formed
- To make them understand when we use present continuous tense

Procedure:

Teacher shows students a picture of an old woman with her

binoculars. Teacher asks students the following question: Do you think she is a
nice old woman or not? Students answer.
Teacher shows students an apartment building and tell the students that she is one
of the neighbors of it. Teacher tries to say what the old woman does with her
binoculars.
e. g She watches the people that are in the building. ( She is spying them)
Teacher then asks the students what they do when they are at home. ( watch Tv,
listen to music, read) Teacher tells students that the old lady Carmen is looking
through binoculars and tells her friend Sofia on the phone what the people are
doing. With the teachers help, Ss try to elicit what are two women talking about.
T. provides an example and writes it on the board. Students read the sentence
individually.
e.g. Where is Walter? Hes in the kitchen.
What is he doing? Hes eating his breakfast.
Then, teacher explains how is present continuous formed.
Teacher: We form the PC form (known as the present participle) by adding ing
to the base form.
We drop e if the base form ends in a single letter e
e.g. take taking
We double the consonant if:
The base form ends in a single vowel+ single consonant
E.g. sit sitting

Exceptions are consonants: w, x, y

Sew sewing; box boxing; play playing
The base form has two syllables and ends in l
E.g. label labelling
We change a base form ending in ie to y
We add k to the base form ending in c
e.g. picnic picnicking
Teacher gives students some verbs and they will have to put the right ending.
With the Ss help, T. explains how present continuous is formed.
Time: 10 minutes
Interaction: T Ss; Ss - T
CONTROLLED PRACTICE ( speaking)
Aims: -to promote accuracy with regard to form and pronunciation
Procedure: Teacher sets the same context. Sofia and Carmen are talking on the
phone. Teacher is Sofia and Carmen are the SS.
e.g. Where is ? What is.. doing?
Teacher asks Ss to work in pairs and to role play.
Time: 6 minutes
Interaction: Ss SS

CONTROLLED PRACTICE ( writing)

Aims: -to check understanding of the patterns;

Procedure: Teacher gives students a worksheet with an exercise in which they
have to fill using the correct form of the verbs.
Time: 5 minutes
Interaction: Ss Ss

PRODUCTION
Aims: - to make a short dialogue using present continuous tense
Procedure: Teacher provides students a context. Two men are in two different
places. ( one is sitting on the beach and the other is at a party). They are talking to
each other on the phone. Ss have to work in pairs and invent a short dialogue
between the two.
Teacher monitors and corrects where necessary and praises for effort all students.
Time: 6 minutes
Interaction: pair work

FEEDBACK
Aims - To consolidate grammar structures and revise vocabulary
-

to develop listening skills;

to relax

Procedure: Teacher gives Ss a handout containing a song ( Lemon tree). Ss will

have to listen to the song and fill in the blanks with the Present Simple and Present
Continuous tense. Ss will listen to the song twice.

Time: 8 minutes
Interaction: SS SS; T Ss; Ss T

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Aims: to consolidate and reinforce learning done at school;
-to help develop good work habits for the future
Procedure: Teacher asks Ss to do the same thing as the old woman did at the
beginning of the lesson. They will have to observe their family members and write
at least five sentences about what they are doing
Time: 2 minutes
Interaction: T Ss; Ss - T