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Grammar / present simple and present simple continuous
elementary level

Description

In this lesson, ss revise the present simple tense and the present continuous tense through guided discovery based on a listening track about four top tourist attractions in London.

Materials

Abc Gap-filling, images
Abc Google image
Abc listening track
Abc New English File Elementary
Abc PPT

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, ss will have practiced the present simple tense and the present continuous tense in the context of tourist attraction in London.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To practice listening for gist in the context of tourist attraction in London..

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students.

1. Ask Ss: 'What's the capital of the United Kingdom?' 'Tell me two things about London.' 2. Display pictures of four top tourist attractions in London. Write their names randomly. Ask ss to match the names with their pictures. 3. Show the answer key on the PPT.

Exposure(Listening track) (8-10 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through listening.

1. Before the listening track, some words are explained by eliciting from pictures. (a guidebook- a flag - a ship) 2. Set the listening track: You’re going to listen to two tourists in London, Ivan and Eva. They saw four tourist attractions. While listening to it, put the verbs in brackets into the present continuous or the present simple and they should use contractions . 3. Play a small part of the listening track to demo the first one. 4. let the ss do the rest alone while listening to the track. 5. Pause after each dialogue to give ss time to write. 6. Ss Check their answers in pairs in the breakout rooms. 7. Listen again. 8. Teacher provides the answer key on the PPT and allows ss to check for themselves. ICQ: Are you going to write all of the verbs in the present simple? (No)

Language Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To draw students attention to the target language.

1. Choose two examples from the text to clarify them (The flag's flying./ It opens in twenty minutes.) 2. Elicit that the present continuous is for what's happening now, and the present simple for what always or usually happens. 3. Pronunciation: Modelling and drilling. Use backchaining. 4. Write these two sentences on the screen and elicit their form.(Each sentence will be on a different slide.) ICQ Are all the verbs in the present simple tense? (No)

Controlled Practice (5-7 minutes) • To check students’ understanding of the target language and diagnose their problems with it.

1. Ask ss to work in pairs. They put the verbs in brackets in the present simple or continuous. 2. Demo the first one. 3. Send them to breakout rooms.(4 minutes) 4. Monitor 5. Provide the answer key on the PPT

Semi-freer practice (10-13 minutes) • To allow students to use the target language more meaningfully in speaking describing pictures.

1. Divide the ss into A and B. 2. Display picture A, and ask A students to take a screenshot. 3. Display picture B, and ask B students to take a screenshot. 4. Explain the activity. Ss describe their pictures in pairs (A &B) and find ten differences. 5. Demonstrate how to find the differences by playing the parts of both A and B, e.g. A 'In my picture, there's a man and a woman. They're running'. B ' In my picture, there's a man and a woman. They're not running.' 6. Demo with ss. Ask one of ss A to describe something in picture A to one of ss B. Ask the same s B to say whether the same thing is in his/her picture or not. 7. Send the ss into the breakout rooms. Each breakout room should have student A and student B. 8. Monitor unobtrusively and collect errors. Errors concerning the form and the pronunciation of the present simple tense and the present continuous tense. 9. Stop the activity and ask ss this question ' How many differences have you got?' 10. Listen to their answers for a minute. 11. Write sentences on the screen. Some of them are right, and some are wrong. Elicit and correct their errors.

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