Prepared by: Amna Tabasum

Subject: English{ESL}
Level: Beginners
Objectives: At the end of the lesson students will be able to use
the tense correctly and will be able to ask questions.

Topic: Simple Present Tense

Resource: Worksheet, white board
Skills: Listening and speaking

Date: 16-01-2015
Time: 45minutes
Assumption: some students might
not add s or e s correctly to the
verbs when using the 3rd person
singular pronouns he she and it.

Time

Aim

Assessment Problems
Anticipated

Content
Stage

10 minutes

Teaching Procedure

Student
Activity

Aid

Introducing Topic
-Teacher will use a kind of PING
PONG process of making statement
about her herself and eliciting from
students.

Engage

-Example: I work at Dar AL Salam

International school and -you?
-I speak English at work and- you?
-I read an English newspaper every
day and you?

To give students
an idea of
Present simple
and build the
structure.

Pupils will
listen and
make
responses.

To consolidate
the concept and

Will listen and

make response

Question
game

Observation

Initially there would be

some difficulty in
becoming familiar with
the topic.

Q&A

Some students may not

response.

-Once students are comfortable build

in they and you forms.
-My friends speak ..What about
your friends? They.
-My friends and I meet up every
Thursday, what about your friends?
15 minutes

Study

Topic: Simple Present Tense Beginners level

Main Focus:

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Course: TFEL

-Teacher will explain when we use

Present tense.
-Will talk about habits, likes and
dislikes.
- Give a lot of examples and do a lot
of drilling.
20 minutes

check their
concepts.

Drilling &
direct
method.

Activity one

Activate

-Play and guess activity.

-One student will come out and draw
a card.
-Other students have to guess what is
being acted by the student with the
card.

Check their
comprehension
and choral
drilling.

Pair work
Actively
involved.

Cards

Observation

Some students might

not guess or perform
the task properly.

Worksheet

Critical eye.

Some students might

make mistakes.

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Activity two
-Teacher will distribute the work
sheets
-Will instruct the students
-Ask to discuss how to finish the
sentences.

Topic: Simple Present Tense Beginners level

To consolidate
the structure and
eliciting from
peer.

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Peer work.

Course: TFEL

Name:___________________

Activity Two

Date:________________________

Fill in the blanks with correct form of simple present tense;

1) They _________________ play hockey at school (to play).

2) We __________________ to the park every weekend (to go).

3) I __________________ the internet every day (to use).

4) My mother __________________ everyday (to cook).

5) My friends ___________________ ice cream after school (to eat).

Work in pairs ask each other about your likes and dislikes; Do you like?

References:
1. http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/present-tense/present-simple
2. http://edition.tefl.net/ideas/grammar/present-simple-continuous/

Topic: Simple Present Tense Beginners level

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Course: TFEL