Lesson Plan
General Information:
Level:
Primary 4
Number of Students: 32
Time:
35 minutes
Course materials:
New Welcome to English Book 4A, 2nd edition, (Unit 6), Longman.
Topic:
Every day
Objectives:
- Students can correctly use the simple present tense. Especially, students will be able to add “s”
or “es” to the verbs when using third personal singular pronouns “he”, “she” or “it”.
Prior knowledge:
- Some simple actions, e.g. having a shower, doing homework, getting up early etc.
Teaching materials: Flash cards, action cards, music, a ball and Longman Workbook
Procedures:
Content
Time
stages
8 min Presentation
Teaching procedures
1 Teacher presents the use of simple present tense
and the word ‘every day”
using “I”. (E.g. I do
homework every day.)
2 Teacher presents the uses of simple present tense
and the word “every day”
using “he” or “she”. (E.g.
He does homework every
day.)
3 Teacher clearly presents the difference between the
above two.
4 Teacher seeks choral response
from
the
students.
5 Teacher
uses
more examples to illustrate the
above.
-1-
Aims
Aids
To give students an idea of -Flash cards
the “I” presentation of
simple present tense.
To give students an idea of
the
“he”
or
“she”
presentation of simple
present tense.
To
clarify
students’
concepts or correct their
common mistakes.
To keep students’ attention.
To give students more
examples so that the
students will be more
familiar with the use of the
simple present tense.
10 min Practice
1 Teacher
gives
clear instructions
and
a
demonstration about the
activity.
(The theme of the activity
is to guess what he or she
does every day.)
2. Teacher asks one student to come out and draw a
card. The student is
requested to act out the
action written on the card.
(E.g. sweeping the floor)
3 The rest of the students
are requested to guess
what that particular
student does every day.
Students are required to
tell in the following way:
E.g. He sweeps the floor
every day.
4 Students chorally repeat the sentence pattern.
5 There will be some more
rounds of the above.
10 min Consolidation 1 Teacher
gives
clear instructions about the
activity
2 Teacher gives the ball to one of the students and
then plays the music and
when the music stops, the
student who holds the ball
is expected to stand up
and tell the whole class
what he or she does every
day, say, “I sweep the
floor every day.”.
3 The rest of the students
are required to tell what
that particular student
does every day in the
following way:
He sweeps the floor every
day.
4. The above will go on for
several rounds.
-2-
To let students know what - A collection
to do in this activity.
of action
cards-
To add fun to the lesson so
that the students can enjoy
and learn.
To further reinforce what
was taught before.
Repetition
can
help
students to memorise the
sentence pattern.
To let students know what - CD
to do in this activity.
- Ball
To let students to have free
production about what was
being taught before.
To further reinforce what
was taught.
3 min
Conclusion
4 min
Giving
homework
1 Teacher gives a quick conclusion and explains
some common errors.
1. Teacher gives homework to the students and may do
some questions with the
students.
-3-
To clarify students’ wrong
concepts.
To explain some of the - Pre-task WB
examples on homework so
that students will not find it
difficult to complete the
homework.