Lesson Plan

Date: 05/11/09 Level: 7th grade.

Skill: Speaking

Expected outcomes:
- To build sentences using present continuous
- To describe classmates body language using present continuous.
- To create sentences using present continuous.
Resources:
- Verb dice
- Whiteboard
- Markers
- Verb cards
- Students
- Present continuous cards
Time Comments
Introduction
5 min - The teacher whites on the board the date
- The teacher writes on the board the goals
of the lesson.
- Role calling
Core of the class 10 min - The teacher makes their student to
Pre-stage remember the last class.
- The teacher asks their students if
they remember the present continuous.
- The teacher asks their students how
to make the present continuous
- The teacher shows their students
three cards “pronoun” “am/is/are” and
“ing” and ask them to help her how to build
a sentence with them.
- The students tell their teacher how to
build the sentence with the tense.
While-stage 10 min - The teacher takes the Verb dice and
throws it, and asks their students to build a
sentence using present continuous with the
verb.
- The teacher picks different students
to throw the dice and create new sentences
using present continuous.
Post-stage - The students write their sentences on
the whiteboard.
5 min - The teacher gives every student in
the class a verb card.
- The teacher explains the aim of the
 game

Closing - The aim of the game is to use body

language to describe as well as you can the
action of the verb that appears in the card,
the rest of the class must guess about the
action, saying a sentence using present
continuous.
15 min -The teacher gives and example performing
a card verb using body language.
- Every student comes in front of the class
and acts his/her action.
-The rest of the class guesses orally the
action using present simple structures to tell
the answers.
- The teacher writes on the board the
sentences their students say.
- The teacher and students check their
answers on the board immediately.
- The teacher remembers their students once
more the grammar structure of the present
continuous.