2018 Pre-Intermediate Grammar Lesson Plan

UNIT 5 (Relative Clauses)

Lesson By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to:

Objective(s) 1) complete all the exercises (with at least 80% accuracy in every exercise).
2) Able to differentiate relative clauses and relative pronouns with 80% accuracy.
Assumed
Ss have learnt basic clauses.
Knowledge
Anticipated
Ss may have problems to differentiate the subject and object relative pronouns.
Problems
Materials Text book and Grammar exercise book.
Time/
Stages Procedure
Te-ss

a) Te writes 2 sentences on the board.

1) I want to live in a place where there is a lot of activity to
do. (place)
2) Most of the parents who were invited to the conference
3 mins
Warmer / Lead- did not come. (people)
Te-ss
In
b) Te asks the students to identify the differences between the
two sentences.
- Where is used for place and who is used for person
- Te introduces the topic.

Books closed.
Te explains thoroughly on
1) Relative pronoun and relative clauses.
10 min
Presentation Te gives examples and elicits examples from ss.
Te-ss
Te writes notes on the board and the students copy down in
their books.
Te checks students’ notes and ensures that they copy down
accurately.

Te starts with the practice provided in the textbook.

Practice Te asks students to do exercise 1 on page 17. 17 min
Te models the first question. Te-ss-ss
Te gives students 5 minutes to answer the questions.
Te randomly calls a few students to answer the questions and
justify their answers.
Te asks students to do exercise 2 on page 17 & 18.
Te models the first question.
Te asks students to do it as a pair work.
Te gives 10 minutes to answer the questions.
Te calls a few ss to read the answers and justify their answers.
Te corrects their pronunciation and answers.

Te asks a few ss to construct sentences using relative

pronouns. 3 min
Evaluation/ Ex: Te-ss
Application
Te corrects the pronoun and its clauses if there is any error.

Te wraps the lesson by asking few questions on the lesson

taught. 2 min
Wrap/Closure Te assigns exercise 3 on page 18 as homework. Te-ss
NOTES

Usage: define or identify the noun that precedes them and to give extra information about it.

Preceding nouns Relative pronouns examples

person who, whom, that  I’m looking for a
secretary that can
use a computer
well.
 The police
arrested a man
who Jill worked
with.
 I saw the man
whom I met during
the holiday trip.
possession (person or whose  The house whose
thing) roof is old belongs
to me.
thing that, which  We bought a
house which/ that
is 200 years old.

Defining relative clauses: (who, which, that)

1) The relative pronoun that is used as a subject in the sentence.

Ex: i) The people who/ that live in the island is very friendly.
ii) The house which/that belongs to Julie is in London.

2) The relative pronoun can also be used as object in the sentence.

Ex: i) We went to the village last week. It is nearby my hometown. The village which/
that we went last week is nearby my hometown.