School: scoala gimnaziala nr 1 rabagani

Teacher: iancu mirela

Date: 9th of may 2013
Form: 4th grade
Lesson: present tense continuous, chapter 16
doing?)

( what is he

Type of lesson: teaching grammar

Skills: reading, writing, speaking
Aims:
Use and be aware of this tense
Make a difference between present simple and present continuous
Recognize this tense in statements
Objectives: at the end of the lesson Ss will be able to:

Put different verbs in pres. Cont

Translate this tense correctly
Use present cont in sentences of their own
Ask and answer to questions using this tense
Know when this tense is used
Describe activities

Teaching methods: reading, explanation, dialogue, exercises, role-play, spider-web,

brainstorming
Teaching aids: BB, textbook, handouts, coloured chalk
Interaction: T- Ss, Ss T, individual work and pair work
Time: 50 minutes

Stages of the lesson

ORGANISATION OF THE
CLASS
T asks the pupils who is on duty today, to find out who is absent, and then she marks the
absentees in the register. After that, she organizes the class, and she tells the Ss that they will
have a guest at their English class. The pupils greet and they answer the Ts questions.
Time: 4 minutes

CHECKING
aks o
HOMEWORK
T asks one pupil to say what their homework was for today. He says they had to copy the text at
page 80, Uncle Henrys box. T sees their notebooks.
Time: 3 minutes
WARM UP
Teacher suggests a short revision of the English verbs, so each child must say a verb in
English and its meaning in Romanian. Meanwhile T draws on the blackboard a spider web and
the pupils who say verbs go and write those verbs. To make it more interesting T may ask other
verbs too and she may tell them to make sentences using these verbs into short Sentences. Some
of the best sentences are written on the blackboard.

verbs

PRESENTING THE NEW

LESSON
T announces the new lesson and its aims. She also writes on the blackboard with coloured
chalk the title of this lesson and the pupils copy it in the notebooks. Its a grammar lesson Present
Tense Continuous.
Before explaining the lesson T asks some of the pupils to give examples of sentences with
different verbs where the tense used is Pres. Simple.
e.g. I eat an ice cream.
He doesnt drink coffee.
Then T explains them that we use Pres Simple for repeated actions. Just like at Math: if we do the
same problem every day for one year and we always repeat it, then it becomes very easy because
we know it by heart, but if we do it for the first time it may seem to be harder, just like Present
Continuous, which is used for actions that happen in the moment of speaking and its longer and
probably harder.
T writes on the blackboard a sentence ( I am playing tennis now.) and she tells the pupils to
observe and say how we formed this tense, underlining the auxiliary, the verb, and the ending
ing.
Then some Ss come to the blackboard to write the rules of formation and to write other examples
of sentences. If necessary the present of the verb to be will be written on the blackboard too and
in their notebooks.
T tells Ss to open the books at page 81 and to read the sentences there, describing the actions our
characters do.( exercise 1) and then T tells them to work in pair for ex 2 where they have to ask
questions and answer to them , based on the text.
E.g. Whats the bird doing?
Its singing.
Time: 30 minutes
PERFORMANCE AND
FEEDBACK

T asks the pupils if they understood the lesson and if they have any questions, then to make sure,
T asks them to make a short resume of the lesson.
Then pupils can come at the blackboard to write sentences using this tense. All the sentences
must be in the affirmative form and then, orally, they transform them into negative.
Time: 10 minutes
SETTING THE HOMEWORK AND ENDING THE
LESSON
T tells children that they did well today and they really managed to pay attention to the lesson. As
homework for next time they will have to learn the lesson and to copy the letter at page 82,
exercise 1.
T greets the Ss and lets them go out for the break.
Time: 2 minutes