Detailed lesson plan:

Subject: English

Topic: Subject-verb agreement

Grade level: 10

Duration: 45 min

Objectives:

At the end of the session, students should be able to:

 Explain the rules of subject-verb agreement.
 Construct their own sentences using correct subject-verb agreement.
 Participate in the class discussion activity.
 Insert a table on Microsoft word identifying indefinite pronouns.
Procedure:
Students are asked to:
 On word document, create a blank page.
 Go to insert – table.
 Select 3 rows and 2 columns.
 Individually, label each box as singular, plural, and singular & plural.
 Type the pronoun that belongs to its group.

Materials needed:
 Books
 Laptops or iPad
 White-board projector
 Scratch papers
 Board markers
 Pens

Warm-up (5 min):
 Call students to sit in pairs.
 Ask refreshing questions about the topic.
 Introduce the topic.

Procedure:
 Explain the topic – subject-verb agreement- in details.
  Identify the rules and tips that should be followed.
 Identify exceptional rules.
 Discuss special problems in subject-verb agreement.
 Discuss the most common problem area in subject-verb agreement.
 Explain indefinite pronouns
 Explain auxiliary verbs and model verbs.
 Discuss uncountable and group nouns
 Identify the rule of compound subjects
 Students are assigned to use nearpod.com:
https://share.nearpod.com/FCoYhM37m3

21st century skills:

 Collaboration (Introduction and procedure): students working in pairs.
 Flexibility (procedure): students should be able to learn lots of rules.

Guided practice:
 Using a projector, display that It's Grammar Time: Subject-Verb Agreement 1 worksheet
and review the example.

 Read the first sentence aloud and underline the subject— empowerment. (Tip: Cover the
other sentences with a sheet of paper so that only the one you are working on is visible.)

 Explain, "We know that empowerment is singular because there is not an 's' at the end."

 Tell students that since there is not an 's' at the end of plane, the coordinating singular
verb will have an 's'.

 Circle the word includes and remind students that this is the verb that agrees with the
singular subject empowerment.

 Write the correct verb on the line and read the completed sentence aloud.

 Repeat by guiding students through sentence number two as a model.

 Complete five more examples with the class, inviting student volunteers to choose the
correct verb and explain their reasoning.

 Have students discuss and complete the remaining sentences with an elbow partner,
writing their answers in a notebook or on a sheet of scratch paper.

 After the worksheet is completed, explain that the 's' rule is an easy guideline to help us
with subject-verb agreement.
Assessment:

 Instruct students to join in gimkit.com.

https://www.gimkit.com/view/5e175319c7660400221c9d4b
 Insert the given code to join the game.
 All students should take the quiz.

Expected answers:

 General subject-verb problem: using “s” in verbs for plural subjects.

 Students might use plural verbs in collective nouns. Eg: the class encourage instead of
encourages women empowerment.
 Confused model verbs. Eg: women’s empowerment must allows instead of allow women
to make life- determining decisions.
 Indefinite pronoun problems. Eg: some of the girls discourages women empowerment.

Closure and reteaching:

 Ask students to think about what would happen if the subject and verb didn't agree.
 Give some examples of incorrect sentences (e.g. empowerment are raising the status of
women.)
 Explain that subject-verb agreement is important because without it a sentence can be
confusing. To communicate clearly in English, we must follow grammatical rules like
this one.
 Have students think about other grammatical rules they know that help them
communicate clearly (e.g. verb tense).
 If some students still have problems in subject-verb agreement, they are required to do a
research about the topic.

Reference:
 Book: Holt, Elements of Language – Fourth Course.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston – A Harcourt Education Company.