Grammar Lesson Plan Template

Unit number/Topic:  Unit 8- Level: Pre-intermediate Lesson Length: 45

Appearance minutes
 
 
Type of lesson: Grammar Teaching Teacher Trainee:
Present Continuous Date:12/04/2021

Main aim (s): By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
 Use the Present Continuous to describe the action at the moment of speaking about
appearance.
Personal aim(s): use the handouts to save time.
Materials (including sources):, handouts, slides, board, school supplies in the classroom, Life
book.
Assumptions:
Anticipated learners’ difficulties/problems Suggested Solutions:
with tasks: -Pre-teach needed vocabulary before
Problem 1: Students have the limited reading in Exercise 1. (using
vocabulary pictures,..)
-Write the verbs that are likely to be
Problem 2: Students have difficulty needed on the board so students can
with the spelling rules of the Present learn to write and use the tense by
Continuous due to the inadequacy of basing on it. 
teaching time.

Language Analysis  
Forms & Examples  Meaning Phonology

 I can’t come now. I am eating my  describe 

dinner. activities at the
 Please be quiet. Marry is sleeping moment of
speaking

 describe things
happen around
 She is walking to work a lot these now, but not
days. necessarily at
 Max is studying economics the moment.

Stage/Time Stage aim Procedure Interactio Aids

Teacher’s & n
Learners’the activities 

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Review Help learners review - Reviewing Present T-W/C Slide
(5 mins) the use of Present Simple Tense:
Simple Tense When do we use the
present simple:
 We use the
present simple
when something
is generally or
always true.
 Habits or things
that we do
regularly.

Presentation Introduce form and -The T asks Ss to read T-W/C Handout,

(10 mins) use of Present an article about Slide,
Continuous photographer Gillian Board
  Turner-Niles and
answer relevant
questions in Exercise 1.
-The T writes on the
board two sentences
from the article and asks
Ss to answer:
 She lives in New
York and works
in the fashion
capitals of the
world.
 Today she’s
talking to me by
phone from the
middle of
Sudan.
1. Which sentence
describes an
action now or
around the time
of speaking?
2. Which sentence
describes a
permanent state
or routine? What
tense is the
verb?
-The T checks the
answer and introduces

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 the forms and meaning
of the Present
Continuous.
- T gives some
examples with each
form of Present
Continuous.
 You are learning
English now.
 Are you
sleeping?
 I am living with
my sister until I
find an
apartment.
 She is learning
to drive.
- The T asks the concept
question to check Ss
understands how the
form is being used and
what it means.
 Jacob is playing
tennis. 
Is Jacob playing
tennis now? (Yes)
      When did he start?
(Before now)
      When will he
finish? (Sometime after
now)

Practice (1) Help learners -The T asks Ss to do the T - W/C School

(5 minutes) memorize Present practice individually supplies
Controlled Continuous form - The T will show in the
Practice through repetition.  pictures on slides about classroo
  what’s happening in m.
there
-The T asks Ss “ What's
he/she doing?” and
encourages Ss to give
the answers in present
continuous sentences
about the pictures.

Feedback T gives feedback - The T confirm and T - W/C

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 directly about Ss’ correct the Ss’s answers
accuracy. -The T points out the
mistakes in the wrong
answers and recalls the
present continuous
tense.
Practice (2) (less Encourage learners T-W/C Handout 
controlled in practice using - The T organizes a Ss - Ss 
practice) Present Continuous guessing game for ss to
(7 mins) so that learners are practice using Present
able to comprehend Continuous.
the use of this tense.  - The T will divide Ss
into four groups to
discuss and guess the
answer.
-  One student is given a
handout with cue words
such as clothes (shirt,
skirt, pants, hairstyle
(color, curly, straight,
thick, wavy,…), shoes,
… Then, this student
will look at others and
describe some of them
with simple sentences
following the cue words
in the box for the rest of
the class to guess, using
present progressive.
  She is wearing
eyeglasses
today.
  He is wearing
brown shoes.
     (More examples
in box A-exercise
2).
- Every group can feel
free to speak aloud their
answers after they
discuss with their group.
- The T will give bonus
marks for groups that
have correct answers.

Feedback Support learners to - The T will give T-W/C

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(3 minutes)  understand fully the feedback about
knowledge of present pronunciation, using
progressive tense present progressive
(form, use). tense.
 - The T helps Ss realize
and correct their
mistakes.
- Remind Ss to practice
more to avoid making
mistakes.
Production (10 Use and produce -The T encourages Ss to T-W/C
mins) (**) present continuous work in 4 groups. Ss-Ss
in an authentic -Each group will make a
context. poster: Topic “Styles in
school”
-The T reminds Ss to
use Present Continuous
Tense structure at least
3 times in their poster.
Ex: these students are
wearing T-shirts at the
moment, those students
are wearing pink skirts
today,...
-Ss work in groups to
create a poster to
describe what students
would like to wear in a
school environment.
-Ss in each group will
hand in their poster to
be assessed by group
presentation.
-Other groups listen and
take notes as much as
they can remember.
-Groups join and
compare their accounts
to see what they had
forgotten to report.

Feedback T gives feedback The T motivates Ss to T-W/C

(5 mins) indirectly about Ss’ correct their own
fluency. mistakes.
The T motivates Ss to
perform independently.

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 Ss can check how much
they have learned.

Note:
Exercise 1: Read the passage below and answer the question.
Global Fashion
Gillian Turner-Niles is a fashion photographer. She lives in New York and works in the fashion
capitals of the world. You can see her photographs on the pages of fashion magazines across the
world. Her clients include Gucci, Dior, Ferragamo, even the sports clothing company Nike. But
today she’s talking to me by phone from the middle of Sudan. So, what is she doing there?
“I’m taking photographs, of course!”She explains, “I’m not taking photographs for Vogue or
anyone else. It’s like a holiday. In my business. it’s easy to forget there’s another world out
there. And I like looking at clothes in a different way when I travel.’ But in this world of global
fashion,  people all over the world wear the same clothes. The businessman’s suit in Berlin. And
jeans and T-shirts are almost a type of uniform these days.
“Yes, I think that’s true in the big international cities,” Gillan says. “But I’m visiting regions in
the world with their own traditional clothes and their own fashions. That’s especially true in this
part of Africa.”

 Where does she normally work?

 Where is she at the moment?
 Is she taking the photographs in New York? 

Exercise 2: Work in a group. Using cue words in this card to describe your classmates for
guessing, using Present Continuous to make sentences.
BOX A
socks red  shoes 

Eyeglasses sandals sneakers

necklace earrings white

black Bracelet watch