Kathy Kathy

Present Simple
Elementary level

Materials

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, students will have understood the meaning, form and pronunciation of The Present Simple in affirmative and Wh-questions forms (I/you/we/they).

Subsidiary Aims

  • To develop speaking fluency related to Present Simple.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-4 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

•T. shows some pictures of people doing different daily routine activities and asks Ss. What are they doing? What activity (1 min) •Elicit suggestions from Ss, concept check I get up at 7am / I have lunch / I go to bed (2 min)

Exposure (7-8 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

• Ss guess the times actors do these things things: get up, have breakfast, start work and have lunch. (1 min) •T. tells Ss. they have 3 minutes to read a text ¨Behind the camera¨ and tick off Kari's activities. •T. shares G form link in chat and has students do this exercise individually. (3 min) •Ss. check the answers in pairs in breakout rooms. (1 min) •T. checks answers with the whole class (OCFB) . (2 min)

Highlighting (4-5 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

•T. shows task and tells Ss they have 2 min to circle PS affirmative form and underline PS WH questions. •T. shares a link on zoom chat to a Google Slides presentation and has students do the exercise individually. (2 min) •Ss. check the answers in pairs in breakout rooms. (1 min) •OCFB: T. puts answers on Slide to confirm. Answer key: (2 min)

Clarification (13-14 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

•T. shares screen and tells Ss: ¨Find the verbs in these sentences. They are in the Present Simple¨ (1 min) •OCFB. Also T. asks ¨Is the Presente Simple the same or different after I, you, we, they? (2 min) •T shows table and says: Look a the table. What's the word order in affirmative form? Elicit answers. Then T. asks: Are these past events or daily routine? (2 min) •T shows a second table and says: Look a the table and notice the word order in questions. Elicit answers. (1 min) •Ss write questions 1,2 and 3 in the table. (2 min) •OCFB. Also T. asks ¨Are the Presente Simple questions the same or different after I, you, we, they? (2 min) •Teacher highlights stressed words, pronunciation and intonation in the Present Simple positive and questions. (2 min) •Ss do pronunciation practice (2 min)

Controlled Practice (4-4 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

•Ss have 3 minutes to do exercise A on Google Slides after teacher´s instructions. •Ss do the exercises individually and then do answer check OCFB.

Free Practice (9-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

•Ss use the questions from previous exercise for freer practice, they work in pairs. (5 min) •T. monitors while Ss. speak. •OCFB. T. will nominate some Ss. to share their classmates or their own opinions about the questions. (2 min) •T. shares a G slide to write down mistakes heard during the follow up and asks Ss. for corrections first. DEC focus on relevant vocabulary and verb form. (3 min)

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