Şcoala Gimnazială Nicu Enea Bacău

LESSON PLAN

GRADE: 7th Form (Pre-Intermediate)

DATE: 15th of October, 2018
TEACHER: Farauanu Mihaela
LESSON: PRESENT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS
TEXTBOOK: SNAPSHOT – Pre-intermediate
TIME: 50 min
TEACHIND AIDS: textbooks, language booster, blackboard, teacher’s book, handouts,
notebooks

ASSUMPTION: Although SS were taught present simple and continuous a year before,
they still find it difficult to work with these tenses, to make the difference between them
ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS: SS are supposed to recognize habitual actions specific to
the present simple and temporary actions specific to the present continuous.

ACTIVITY 1: Warming up & checking homework

T asks her SS how they are feeling and then checks the homework
INTERACTION: T-S, S-T
TIME: 5 min
OBJECTIVE 1: to increase the SS’ interest in the use of Present Simple and Continuous

ACTIVITY 2: T asks SS to tell what they usually do during a day. SS answer the
question while T writes on the blackboard some of their answers. T asks whether they are
doing something different today. Several SS answer and T also writes their answers on
the blackboard. Starting from their answers on the blackboard, T elicits the rules to form
the affirmative, negative and interrogative forms of Present Simple and Continuous.
INTERACTION: T-S, S-T
TIME: 10 min
OBJECTIVE 2: to practise on the use of Present Simple and Continuous with their time
adverbials.

ACTIVITY 3: SS discuss the examples given in the textbook then SS are shown the
example in Ex 7/ pg 10. They complete the exercise and check their answers with the
whole class.
INTERACTION: T-S, S-T
TIME: 10 min
OBJECTIVE 3: to practise the use of Present Simple and Continuous

ACTIVITY 4: SS are given handouts involving present simple and continuous. SS are
asked to put the verbs in the right form, to form negative and interrogative sentences to
complete sentences using the two tenses.
INTERACTION: T-S, S-S, S-T

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TIME: 10 min
OBJECTIVE 4: to produce questions and give answers in the Present Simple and
Continuous

ACTIVITY 5: T writes on the blackboard adverbials of time involving the tenses they’ve
just learnt about and SS, divided into three groups, have to build sentences starting from
the given adverbial and also using the right tense. SS have to do the exercise as quickly as
possible.
INTERACTION: T-S, S-S, S-T
TIME: 13 min
OBJECTIVE 5: to give SS feedback on the grammatical structures taught.

ACTIVITY 6:
 assigning homework
 Teacher’s appreciation
TIME: 2 min