LESSON PLAN Teacher: Damian (Zamfir) Andreea- Iuliana Date: March 16th, 2023 School: Scoala Gimnazial “Anton Pann” Grade: Vth F Level: L1 Lesson: Present Simple Type of lesson: practising grammar skills Skills: grammar, speaking, reading, listening, writing Time: 50 minutes Methods: The Communicative Approach, The direct method Techniques: questionnaires, discussion, memory test, role-play. Materials: pictures, sheets, board, notebooks Functions: -giving opinions about their daily routines -practicing grammar General aim: The goal of teaching grammar skills is to improve the quality of the communication and for the students 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 describe their daily routines. 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 each student to write a note about himself/ herself: Example of a note: I get up at about 6:00 o’clock and I go to bed at about 10:00 o’clock. I don’t drink Coca Cola. I never watch TV in the evening. I like pop music, I like ice cream. I clean the house in the weekend. The teacher brings together all the notes, then one of the students reads a note and the rest of the students have to guess who is the author of it. 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``.
