Lesson plan CCQs Structures

Time: 1 hr 15 mins. Materials: Grammar reference books/ handouts.

Overall Aims: The trainees will be able to look up structures, provide appropriate contexts
and write useful concept checking questions for grammatical structures at different levels.
This lesson also serves as revision and further practice of language analysis, which is
often a challenging area for trainees.

Warmer: 5 mins
Aim: to check that they have a clear idea about problem areas.

What are useful guidelines for concept check questions?

Discuss in small groups and elicit:

Make sure that you are checking the meaning

Make sure that you are specific about the meaning.
Avoid the target language in the question
Grade the vocabulary and structures that you use below the target language

Recap of timelines: 15 mins

Aim: to ensure that they have a clear idea of timelines (this should be
revision form the video) and how to use them.

Give an example on the board:

Ive been running, Im hot.
and
Shes been reading since she came home.

Ensure that they realise the tenses are the same (and elicit that its the
present perfect continuous) ask them in pairs to draw the time lines and
then elicit an answer.

Now ask them to write concept check questions half the class for one
sentence, half for the other. Regroup and compare with each others and
then with possible answers on sheet.

Further practice with timelines. 10 mins

Aim: To allow them to become more familiar with time lines and to
emphasise that they are not always helpful!

Give out handout with timelines to draw. Trainees do this is pairs.

Further practice of concept checking 15 mins

Aim: to give further practice in writing ccqs.

Trainees in same pairs write concept check questions for each of the five
pieces of language.
When most have finished, elicit answers and give out sheet of possible
answers.

Further practice of concept checking and analysing language. 25

mins
Aim: to give further practice of writing ccqs and to give revision and
practice of analysing language in terms of MFP.

Give trainees the following sentence:

He must be so pleased with his exam results!

They collaborate in groups to think of a good context for this elicit one or
two.

Ask them to think of the meaning of this structure (use grammar refs if
necessary)

Then CCQs . Then form and pronunciation analysis.

Provide answer sheet for the faster finishers and ask them to consider
what activities they could do in class to give further practice of this
structure.

If any groups finish this task, give them possible answer sheet and further
examples to analyse and write ccqs for.

She gets her nails done every week.

If I have a headache, I take an asprin.

Have answers ready for finishers to check themselves:

Set assignment 5 mins

Aim: to ensure they understand the assignment brief.

Talk through assignment show them that it is the same as they have been practicing in class.
Answer any questions/ problems.
Present Perfect Continuous - Possible answers

Ive been running Im hot

Now

Is she running now? (no)

Was she running before? (yes)
When did she stop? Recently or a long time ago? (recently)
How do we know? (shes hot)

Shes been reading since she came home.

She came home

Is she reading now? Yes.

When did she start reading? When she came home.
Was she reading all the time? Yes.
Will she stop reading now? Maybe, I dont know.

Timelines
Look at these 5 structures a timeline isnt suitable for one choose
which one isnt suitable and draw timelines for the others.

1. Ive been waiting for hours.

2. I waited for two hours.

 3. Ill take my umbrella in case it rains.

4. I have a shower every morning.

5. At 9.00 I was watching TV.

Possible answers
He must be so pleased with his exam results!

My friends son recently got his A level results. He got an A

and 2 Bs these are great results. Im sure that hes happy
about it - He must be so pleased with his exam results.

Meaning

Do I think he is pleased? (yes)

Am I sure? (yes)
Is this a fact? (NO!)
Is it possible that he is not happy with the results? (yes)

Form:

Must + bare infinitive

Opposite is cant (not mustnt) + bare infinitive

Pron
Final /t/ sound in must is lost
/msbi:/
Must could be stressed in the sentence for emphasis.
Possible Answers

She gets her nails done every week.

Meaning:
Someone else does her nails, but she arranges for it to happen. This
is similar in meaning to the passive voice (Her nails are done every
week) but there is more emphasis on her involvement in the
process.

Does she do her own nails? (no)

Does someone else do them (yes)
Does she arrange for this? Make the appointment? Pay for it? (yes)

Form
Causitive get. Get can be replaced by have and this is slightly
more formal.

Subject + get + object + past participle.

Pronunciation
No major problems.

If I have a headache, I take an aspirin.

Meaning:
Used to describe a fact (independent of time) that is dependent on a
condition.

Do I have a headache now? (probably not)

Is this sentence always true? (yes)
Do I take aspirin every day? (probably not only when I have a
headache)

Form
Zero conditional

If/ When are interchangeable with little change in meaning. Two

clauses are reversible. Both verbs in simple present (or present
continuous)

If/ When + Subject + verb in present simple, subject + verb in

present simple

Pronunciation
I have cant be contracted here as its a main verb.