LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Damian Andreea- Iuliana

Date: June 15th, 2016

School: Horia Hulubei High school, Mgurele

Grade: Vth A

Level: L1

Lesson: Present Simple

Type of lesson: practising grammar skills

Skills: grammar

Time: 50 minutes

Methods: The direct method

Techniques: questionnaires, discussion, memory test, role-play.

Materials: pictures, sheets, board, notebooks

Functions: giving opinions: -agreeing and disagreeing

-justifying arguments

General aim:

The goal of teaching grammar skills is to improve the quality of the communication and to
recognize different contextual situations.

Specific aims:

By learning these skills the students will be able to:

Avoid confusion in the message due to faulty grammar, or vocabulary.

 To reinforce the use of Simple Present.
To encourage learners to engage in a given situation through role-play, and respond
as expected
To solve the exercises specific to the activity.
To use correctly the tense in sentences and other given situations.
Clarify their misunderstandings or ask for confirmation of their own understanding.
Practice using all of the language they know in situations that resemble real
settings.
Develop their sociolinguistic competence.

Assumptions:

- The correct use of the Present Simple and the recognition of its specific situations

- Vocabulary related to different social areas.

-Expressions used to justify arguments and to give opinions about cars and/or people.

Expected Problems to students:

There are a number of problems which the students can face while doing learning this grammar
skill, which are as following:

Learners may have difficulty in understanding the instructions given by teacher.

Some learners will be unable to solve the tasks completely and accurately.
The students may have difficulties in solving the exercises.
Students may have difficulties in conjugating the verbs, they may not know when
to add s or es, or when to change y into ies
Some learners may feel shy and never give answers in target language.

Steps of the lesson

Warm- up (5minutes)
 The teacher greets the students and asks them how their morning was, if they have a
series of actions they do every morning before school, in order to introduce the topic of the
Present Simple.

Students try to answer the questions following some pictures showing different activities and
they tell their habitual actions using specific adverbs, such as: always, sometimes, seldom,
usually, never.

Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-T.

Activity 1(10 minutes)

The teacher announces the title of the lesson and asks each pair of students to create a
questionnaire for their partner.

They have to formulate and to write 5 questions for their partner to answer, about their
schedule, habitual actions. Students work in pairs and create a list of questions.

The teacher writes on the board models: What/ do/ on Mondays? What/ do/ on weekends?
What/ do/ in the evening? Where/ go/ on holidays? When/ visit/ grandparents?...

Interaction: T-Ss, pair work.

Activity 2(15 minutes)

The teacher draws attention to the -s/ -es ending for the third person, and to the turning of the
Y into IES.

The teacher asks students to make questions according to the pictures given using the specific
verb. Students have to look at some pictures in groups and write questions using the given verb
and also give a true answer. In groups, they have to present their pictures in front of the class.

Interaction: group work

Activity 3(15 minutes)

 The teacher gives each student a sheet to complete the lyrics of a song, using Present Simple.
The students work individually. Then, they listen to the song making sure that their answers were
correct.

Students can also sing while correcting, following the lyrics from their worksheet.

Interaction: T-Ss, group work.

Activity 4(10 minutes)

The teacher asks the students to imagine that they are in a different country and they want to
find a roommate, so they write a note about themselves: Example of a note: I get up at about
6:00 oclock and I go to bed at about 10:00 oclock. I dont smoke or I dont drink. I never
watch TV. I like pop music, I like ice cream. I clean the house everyday. Students ask (Do
you like pop music? Do you get up at 6:00 oclock?... )and answer questions about their daily
routines, without showing the note in order to find the perfect room mate.

Interaction: T-S, S-group, S-S

Extra activity

The teacher shows students a picture of an action, general truth, fixed time table and asks them
to mime it in front of the class so that they could get the right answer using Present Simple. The
group with more correct answers wins.

Homework

Students are going to prepare a daily schedule for their ``dream day``.