A lesson plan for teaching simple sentences

Subject: English
Topic: simple sentence
Duration: 50min
Date: 30th, October 2011

Number of students: 35
Class: Senior four
Period: 8:00-8:50 am

Teaching aids: small cards cut from manila papers, chalk board, chalk etc.
Online Reference:www.lessonsnips.com/lesson/simplesentence
Methods: Group discussion, Brainstorming, Class discussion, and so on to allow learners participate actively.
Objective: by the end of this lesson students will be able to explain the components of a simple sentence, to
write simple sentences, breaking them down into their separate parts. This objective will be achieved if
students do well evaluation exercises within 10 minutes and get at least 8/10 without cheating in any
document.
Introduction: 10min
After that students sit in groups of five, I will use a warm up song related to the lesson, sung with students, to prepare
them follow the lesson attentively.
Body/ New Lesson: 40 min
- After singing and sitting in their seats, I distribute small cards on which one word is written to each card and mix
them properly. For example, a card on which article the is written,students, football, play, likes, letters, write, John.
On the other hand, students will be asked to arrange those cards in their respective groups and write possible
sentences from what is written on cards.
-After that students arrange cards so as to make sentences in their groups, I will invite groups to present what they
have found and write them on the chalk board; each group in its place.
Eg.1. The students play football
2. Students write letters
3. John likes football
-After writing sentences on the chalk board, each group will choose one of them to come in front of the class and
explain us how they formed sentences.
Eg. A simple sentence is made up of two main parts: the subject and predicate.
A predicate is a combination of a conjugated verb and an object in a simple sentence.

Subject

verb

object

.The students

play

football

. Students

write

letters

. John

likes

football

.The students play football

Subject ------ predicate
. Students write letters
Subject ------ predicate
. John likes football
Subject ----- predicate
-After analyzing sentences together on the chalk board, I give students opportunity to form their own sentences
referring to the parts of a simple sentence as it is still written on the black board.
-Students will come, one after another, to fill his/her sentence in the table already drawn on the chalk board.
EVALUATION
After identifying main parts of a simple sentence and forming their own simple sentences on the chalk board, I will ask
students to take their exercise notebooks in order to do evaluation exercises which will indicate me whether my
objectives have been achieved successfully.
Eg. 1. Form two simple sentences on your choice
2. Arrange these words to form complete sentences:
A. Potatoes-Mary- and- like-JohnB. my- built father- house-aC. notes- children are-their-reading-