elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of simple present tense in the context of permanent states.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification of permanent states lexis in the context of a police officer life.
Procedure (29-43 minutes)
Tell the students that we are going to play a game to know some information about each other. Then, show the students a list of question where they need to stand up and move around and ask each other the question in worksheet 1, and write the names of the persons who share the same answers. for example: *When do you wake up? ( Mona, Osama) *Do you watch TV? (Mona and Aya) Having done this, teacher asks a student: when do you wake up, Ahmed? Ahmed: at seven. teacher write on the board: Ahmed wakes up at 7 o’clock. write two or more examples; Osama watches TV Mona and Osama wake up at 9 Mona and Aya watch TV
Show students a picture of a man named Robert and ask them to guess his job? After some guesses, ask students to read and check whether there guesses were correct or not, and ask them to answer this question by stating true or false. Teacher monitor and provide help if needed. Ask students to check their answers in pairs. Invite feedback form the students. Then, set the next task and tell the students that, they have to read again and fill in the gaps, or search for the missing word from the text. Hand them out worksheet 2 monitor and provide help invite feedback
Tell the students that, we use the present simple to talk about, permanent states or things which are always true. elicit examples from the students. then provide feedback: Permanent states are situations or feelings which are not temporary. show on the projector or write on the board these examples: I like my family. Robert works as a police officer. They live in Atlanta. We also use the present simple for general facts, for example:(He is a police officer.They are students) Then,write the question or display it on the board; Is the form of the verb the same or different after ( he and they)? invite feedback from the students. Then, tell them that with (He, She or It) we add (s) to the end of the verb and refer to the previous examples.
set the task, by telling the students that they have to write the correct form of the verb. model the first question; She ………..(love) her children....... she loves her children. hand out the task, monitor and provide help. ask students to check in pairs. invite feedback
ask the students to write six sentences about a member of his family. For example, my father works as a doctor. he wakes up at 9 o'clock....etc. monitor and provide help ask students to share their answers in pairs. invite students to read out their sentences . take notes for any mistakes. provide feedback.