Lesson Plan

General Information:
Level: Primary 4
Number of Students: 32
Time: 35 minutes
Course materials: New Welcome to English Book 4A, 2
nd
edition, (Unit 6), Longman.
Topic: Every day
Objectives:
- Students can correctly use the simple present tense. Especially, students will be able to add s
or es to the verbs when using third personal singular pronouns he, she or it.
Prior knowledge:
- Some simple actions, e.g. having a shower, doing homework, getting up early etc.
Teaching materials: Flash cards, action cards, music, a ball and Longman Workbook


Procedures:
Time
Content
stages
Teaching procedures Aims Aids
1 Teacher presents the use
of simple present tense
and the word every day
using I. (E.g. I do
homework every day.)
- To give students an idea of
the I presentation of
simple present tense.
2 Teacher presents the uses
of simple present tense
and the word every day
using he or she. (E.g.
He does homework every
day.)
- To give students an idea of
the he or she
presentation of simple
present tense.
3 Teacher clearly presents
the difference between the
above two.
- To clarify students
concepts or correct their
common mistakes.
4 Teacher seeks choral
response from the
students.
- To keep students attention.
8 min Presentation
5 Teacher uses more
examples to illustrate the
above.
- To give students more
examples so that the
students will be more
familiar with the use of the
simple present tense.
-Flash cards
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1 Teacher gives clear
instructions and a
demonstration about the
activity.
(The theme of the activity
is to guess what he or she
does every day.)
- To let students know what
to do in this activity.
2. Teacher asks one student
to come out and draw a
card. The student is
requested to act out the
action written on the card.
(E.g. sweeping the floor)
- To add fun to the lesson so
that the students can enjoy
and learn.
3 The rest of the students
are requested to guess
what that particular
student does every day.
Students are required to
tell in the following way:
E.g. He sweeps the floor
every day.
- To further reinforce what
was taught before.
4 Students chorally repeat
the sentence pattern.
- Repetition can help
students to memorise the
sentence pattern.
10 min Practice
5 There will be some more
rounds of the above.

- A collection
of action
cards-
1 Teacher gives clear
instructions about the
activity
- To let students know what
to do in this activity.
2 Teacher gives the ball to
one of the students and
then plays the music and
when the music stops, the
student who holds the ball
is expected to stand up
and tell the whole class
what he or she does every
day, say, I sweep the
floor every day..
- To let students to have free
production about what was
being taught before.
3 The rest of the students
are required to tell what
that particular student
does every day in the
following way:
He sweeps the floor every
day.
To further reinforce what
was taught.
10 min

Consolidation
4. The above will go on for
several rounds.

- CD
- Ball
- 2 -
3 min Conclusion 1 Teacher gives a quick
conclusion and explains
some common errors.
- To clarify students wrong
concepts.

4 min Giving
homework
1. Teacher gives homework
to the students and may do
some questions with the
students.
- To explain some of the
examples on homework so
that students will not find it
difficult to complete the
homework.
- Pre-task WB



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