Adult General Elementary, (HW,EL,U3,C1)

Lesson Duration: 50min # students

Lesson Aim: Present simple Intro.
Student details: Age (s): Level:
Date: Class Room

Time Student activity Teacher activity

Engagement activity 1) play track27 and have students say
What do they do? (Hway, Elem, what jobs the people do.
SB, p.20-21)
1) listen to the texts and work out
what they do as job

Presentation stage Present simple is used for facts that are

Present Simple (Hway, Elem, SB, always true, and is often shown with the
p.20) addition of s at the end of the word, but
GS1) Underline all the verbs in the -s, -sh and ch have es and ys not
texts about Istvan and Pamela, change.

Put the words from the text into
pronunciation boxes /s/ and /z/
Read the text aloud, a sentence
each.
GS1) explain verbs and have students
underline all the verbs they can find in
the texts, (TB, p.20) then translate them
together.
Have students put the words from the
text into pronunciation boxes /s/ and /z/
on the board.

Practice reading through the texts

Study stage 3) Together fill in the correct verbs in the

What do they do? (Hway, Elem, present perfect
SB, p.21)
3) Together fill in the correct verbs
in the present perfect
Time Student activity
Practice Stage
Flatmates (Hway, Elem, TRB,
p.17)
In threes, students individually
write present simple sentences
about the person on their card,
based on their bedroom. Then the
three share their sentences and
see what they have in common.
Warm down/follow up
Fernando (Hway, Elem, SB, p.21)
Answer questions about Fernando
in the Present Simple
Teacher activity
Had out the bedroom characters and
explain that they are not to look at
each others. In groups with the same
character they write sentences in the
Present Simple, describing the
character then in groups of 3 with
different characters they see what the
flatmates have in common,
Give Students questions to answer
about Fernando in the Present Simple

Sources of materials used: Headway Elementary Student Book, Headway Elementary

Teachers Resource Book, Headway Elementary Audio CD1

Materials:
- Flatmate cards copied and cut out from TRB, p.17