Lesson plan
Prepared by: zuhura cheredi
Level: Beginner
Subject: English
Skills: Reading, writing, listening and group working in class
Topic: Present continuous tense
Duration:45m
Assumptions: SOME STUDENTS FORGET THE VERB BE.
Overview and purpose: This lesson helps students focus on fluency when
Education standards addressed: It is an beginner class
speaking, to develop students’ communication skills, and to develop
students’ listening skills.
Time
08:05
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Stages
Teacher Guide
Student Guide
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson the student
should be able to :
1.Comprehend present continuous
tense
2 .Realize how to write and read
sentence using present continuous
tense in the class
Information-warm-up:
Teacher greets student
Teacher ask student ‘ what they are
doing?
Students respond we are standing
Teacher write the statement the
student respond on the board
Teacher ask students to sit down
Teacher ask student what they are
doing
Students respond we are sitting down
Teacher write on the board what
Teacher reviews the previous
knowledge, elicits the current
knowledge, and encourages SS use
present continuous tense. T
introduces new grammar and
vocabulary and helps SS in
practicing them.
SS work in pairs and individually to
use present continuous tense. They
read examples, practice them, and do
simple exercises on a hand out.
Homework is assigned at the end to
reinforce the concepts outside the
class room.
Today we are going to learn present
continuous tenses
(to describe an action that is going
on this moment e.g we are studying
English)
Teacher use entertaining games to
teach students to make student not
bored and understand
This game is to be performed by
teacher as students watch and
guess what teacher is doing
Teacher make sure student’s
SS get the clues and answer.
SS respond with some mistakes.
Some wrong answers are expected, T
suggests alternative words.
Materials /Responses/Pair-GroupWork Needed
White board, handouts.
Hand gestures, facial expressions
Study
08:30
08:45
students respond
answers are having P.C.T
ACTIVITY 1 (10min)
INTERACTION (Ss-Ss)
While students are working in groups
teacher draws the table on the board
e. g : They are eating lunch now.
He is studying English at the
moment.
I
AM
COOKING
YOU
ARE
READING
HE/SHE/
IT
IS
STUDYING
WE/THEY
ARE
WATCHING
Verification and Activity
Hand out cut-out for each group to
produce a sentence about each
picture saying what people are
doing in each picture
08:55
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Home task
T asks SS to do some more activities
for homework
Asks SS to compare their answers to
the activity and select the best
answer and discuss wrong answers.
T explains the task, provides an
example and dismisses the class.
Working together in two groups using
flash cards
Student in the group guess flash cards
using the present continuous tense
Student comes up and does what is in
the flash cards in the card
This activity is about adding ing to the
verb
The group which guess correct
answer wins
White board
Flashcard picture
____________________________
T supervises, appreciates the good
efforts and corrects the wrong ones.
Students give sentences; they correct
each other’s mistakes.
T assess and supervises SS work
SS note down the task
WORKSHEET
Choose the correct form
1.I------football.
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Am playing
Is playing
Are playing
2.You------ tennis.
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
Am playing
Is playing
Are playing
3.She----- rugby.

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
Am playing
Is playing
Are playing
4. it------golf
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
Am playing
Is playing
Are playing
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