Lesson Plan #8 - Grammar

Narrative: students come from various different backgrounds and speak different languages. They have a variety of educational levels in their native language.

Rationale: students need to learn how to use present continuous on a daily basis. Students need to expand their vocabulary words. Students need to memorize information in chunks to be able to retell it to others or write it down.

Goal: students will be able to use correct pronunciation in verbal descriptions of places, people, and things.

Objectives:

-       Students will be able to identify action words in English.

-       Students will be able to create sentences in present continuous.

-       Students will be able to complete an activity using present continuous.

-       Students will be able to do a running dictation with a partner using present continuous.

-       Students will be able to role play in small groups using present continuous.

Materials: Stand Out Grammar Challenge textbook, running dictation handout, pictures

Procedure:

Warm up (10 minutes): review contractions from last lesson.

1.Introduction (10 minutes): teacher shows pictures of people in action and students say out loud the name of the action (jumping, drinking, smoking, eating, etc).

2.Presentation (25 minutes): using those pictures, teacher elicits from students sample sentences in present continuous and asks them to write them on the board. Teacher reviews the spelling and the meaning. Teacher explains the use of present continuous by drawing a timeline.

3.Practice (30 minutes): students complete exercises on present continuous from the textbook page 69. Teacher prepares for running dictation activity. Students complete a running dictation exercise with lyrics from the song.

4.Application (25 minutes): with a partner, students create a small dialogue from the pictures. Students decide how they will act it out when someone asks what they are doing. For example, student 1 asks student 2, “what’s she doing?” student 2 says, “she’s jumping.”

5. Closure (15 minutes): students choose a scenario to act out for another small group. Students have to say a complete sentence in order to guess the scenario and get it correct. For example, student 1 pretends to play soccer and student 2 pretends to eat. Student 3 must say, “he’s playing soccer while she’s eating.” If two students do the same action, student 3 must say, “they are playing soccer.” If student 3 guesses wrong, student 1 and student 2 say, “No, I’m playing football.” Students take turns in guessing and acting it out until the whole class performs.

Evaluation:

-       Teacher assesses students’ ability to identify action words in English.

-       Teacher evaluates students’ ability to create sentences using present continuous tense.

-       Teacher monitors as students complete an activity using present continuous.

-       Teacher assesses students’ ability to do a running dictation with a partner using present continuous.

-       Teacher evaluates students’ ability to role play a scenario in a group using present continuous.

-       Teacher assesses students’ ability to act out scenarios and guess their classmates’ scenarios using present continuous.