LESSON PLAN

School: Şcoala Gimnazială Mihai Eminescu, Rădăuţi

Teacher: Lavinia Cristina Serdenciuc-Nimerschi
Date: 24th of May, 2018
Class: 5th A, 2 classes/week
Level: Lower -Intermediate
Lesson: Present Continuous
Type of lesson: Grammar
Time allowed: 50 minutes
Skills: integrated skills
Didactic resources:
 Blackboard, chalk;
 Mobile phone, speakers
 Handout song: Copies of the lyrics of the song Present Continuous Baby
 Worksheet exercises
 Box (tennis ball, book, headphones, water colours, paint brush, candies, pen, sheet of paper)
Teacher’s Aims:
 Students will mime some activities in order to practice Present Continuous Tense ;
 Students will revise Present Continuous Tense through a wide range of grammar exercises;
 Students will complete two evaluation tasks regarding the use of Present Continuous Tense.
General: Developing the four skills using frontal discussions, pair work, group work and a wide range of exercises.
Specific:
By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
 use Present Continuous Tense according to different tasks;
 identify the verbs in Present Continuous in new contexts and get familiar with their meaning;
 become aware of the time expressions used with Present Continuous structures
TIME ACTIVITY PROCEDURE DIDACTIC SKILLS INTERACTON OBJECTIVE
RESOURCES
3 minutes Warm-up The Teacher creates an “English Colored sheets of Speaking T-S To establish contact between her
language” atmosphere by paper and students and help them feel
introducing herself and asking relaxed
students to write down their first
names on a coloured sheet of
paper and put it in front of them,
on the desk.
3 minutes Lead-in The Teacher continues the Speaking T–S To get students involved into the
discussion inviting students to S –T topic
take part in a quiz.
 Who is the president of To create expectations and to
USA? help students in the next activity
 Name the creatures that
lived millions of years
ago.
 The day after Friday.
 An Australian animal
that hops.
 Capital city of England.
 11 minus 7 =
The students, who will give the
right answers in a very short
period of time, will be selected as
volunteers for the next activity.
14minutes Presentation The students who were selected Blackboard Speaking T–S To introduce Present Continuous
during the previous activity will Chalk Tense
be mimes. They will have to pick Notebooks Writing
up from 6 handouts what they are Box
required to mime. (Annex 1)
Pupils should make use of some To check the accuracy of the
objects from the big box in order previous activity
to help the rest of the class to
easily guess what activity is being
mimed. The students who answer
properly will write their answers
on the blackboard.
 The teacher then introduces the
topic of the lesson, Present
Continuous Tense, highlighting To elicit Present Continuous
the verbs from the students’ from the sentences given by the
sentences and eliciting the rules. students
The teacher emphasize on Present
Continuous form and usage.
15minutes Grammar Students are required to write the Worksheet Writing T–S To revise Present Continuous
Practice –ing form of some verbs and then Speaking S–T rules
to match some pictures with the To help students in the next
right sentences in Present activity
Continuous Tense. (pair work)
*If there is enough time and
students are eager to solve more
grammar exercises, they will do
exercise 2 from the worksheet.

10minutes Evaluation Students are asked to complete the
evaluation worksheet. The first
task involves listening to a song,
while the second one deals with
time expressions for Present
Continuous.
5 minutes Feedback As homework, Students have to
and home solve a grammar exercise and
imagine that they are at the
assignment
seaside with some friends and
write 3-5 sentences about their
plans for the present day.
They also have to work in groups
of 4 students and draw a picture
relating to the song heard in class.
Mobile phone Speaking T–S To improve the Students’ ability
Speakers Writing S–S to communicate in the target
Worksheet S–T language
To identify the verbs in Present
Continuous in new contexts and
get familiar with their meaning
To become aware of the time
expressions used with Present
Continuous structures
Worksheet 1 Speaking T–S The teacher will thank students
S–T for their active contribution,
giving them general suggestions
about how to improve their
activity. The teacher quickly
passes in review the major
aspects of the lesson and makes a
general evaluation of the class.
Annex 1

1. Write a letter!
2. Play with the tennis ball!
3. Paint! Use water colours!
4. Read a book!
5. Eat candies!
6. Listen to music on the phone! Use head phones!