Lesson Plan Framework

Name Date & No of Class Length Level of Skills in

Time Students of English focus/general/function
lesson
FAZAL 2 pm 10 EFL 45min. Intermediat Listening/Speaking/with
QASIM 4th e focus on Tag Questions for
September reconfirmation
2018

Main Aim:
The students will use tag questions using present indefinite tense and past indefinite for
reconfirmation.

Sub Aims (SMART Objectives)

1. The learners will be able to recall Present indefinite tenses via using Tag Question.
2. The students will be able to comprehend the affirmative and negative sentence tag question
using present Indefinite Tense.
3. The students will be able to practice the affirmative and negative sentence-tag -questions
using present Indefinite Tense.
4. The students will be able to play a role between a detective and a suspect using present Ind.
Affirmative/negative tag questions in order to interrogate for reconfirmation.
5. The learners will be able to write their own dialogue between a mother and daughterusing
present Tense affirmative /negative tag questions for daily routine.

Class Profile: It is an Intermediate learners’ class, which is comprised of students only. Most of them
are FA/FSc students. They are about 18 to 20years’ old. Most of them belong to a middle class. They
are highly motivated and would like to learn English because they would like to use it in their
academic settings in order to pass their exam. They are motivated because they would like to use
English for style and status. They belong to Karachi.

Previous Knowledge: They already have practiced present and past indefinite tenses in different
situations and they can produce affirmative,interrogative, negative sentences and WH questions.

Rationale for what I will teach, based on learners’ needs and previous knowledge.
The learners are taught this structure so that they will be able to revise the previous structures and
will be able to use tag questions for the purpose of reconfirmation in real life conversations.
Assessment and Evaluation: The teacher will be observing his/her students during their
performance through out the class activities so that he/she will be able to know their areas of
improvement and will devise activities in the next class accordingly.

Language Skills: Listening / Speaking

Language Function and System(Tag Questions used for reconfirmation)

Anticipated Problems
There are variety of structures used in tag questions which will confuse the students if confronted by
the students.
Suggested Solutions
The rest of structures with tag questions will be consolidated in the next few classes.
Lesson Plan
Stages Time Procedure/Activity Skills in Stage Aim
types of for Steps to be followed Focus
each
Interactio activity
n Genre/fu
nction

Listening/ The purpose

(Warm Up) Speaking/ of the activity
Confidence is to activate
Activity 1: developme the students
Teacher + 4
class nt Schema.
interaction,
min The teacher will ask the
Student + students to stand in two
Student rows face to face to each
Interaction other and will tell them to
will be introduce themselves to
exploited.
each other in pairs and
after each minute, they will
change partners.

Loud
(Presentation) Activity 2:The teacher will Reading
place the following
Teacher + 8 dialogue via chart on the The Purpose
Class min. board. The teacher will ask of the
Interaction, two of the students to read activity is to
Teacher + the dialogue loudly and arouse the
Student then he/she will ask his schematic
Interaction students to tell him about information
the purpose of the tags about the
used in the dialogue that targeted
why they have been used. structure.
Finally the teacher will
explain the situation of the
targeted structure.

Dialogue (see Annexure 1)

The following formulas will be The Purpose

Stage 3: written on the board which will be
 8 practiced by the class. Tag of the
Practice: min. Questions activity will
Affirmative Negative /Present be to enable
Teacher+ Present Ind. H/V+ not+ Sbj+? Ind. the students
Class doesn’t he? Tense to know that
He plays,
Interaction,
Student +
how Present
Student Ind. Tense
Interaction tag question
will take Negative Affirmative can be used
place. for
Present Ind. H/V+ Sbj+?
He doesn’t plays, does he? reconfirmati
on and will
Activity 3: practice it.
The learners will be able to revise
present Ind. Tense and will repeat
the present Ind. affirmative
sentence tag question after the
teacher.

Student +
Student Activity 4:
Interaction Tag
will be used .
7min The teacher will divide the question The learners
. learners into pairs and will ask practice will get more
them to practice present ind. with confident and
different be motivated
Tense Affirmative sentence tag subjects by the teacher
questions using different subjects. using to have a
After they practice present ind. present controlled
Affirmative sentence tag affirmative practice of the
questions, they will practice as well as targeted
negative structure.
present negative sentence tag sentence
questions according to the tag
diagram written on the board by questions
the teacher.

Affirmative Negative
Present Ind. H/V+ not+ Sbj+?
 He/she/it/Ali Doesn’t
plays, he/she/it?
you/we/they Don’t they?
etc play,
I play, Aren’t I?

Negative Affirmative
Present Ind. H/V+ Sbj+?
He doesn’t plays, Does he?

you/we/they Do they?
don’t play,
I don’t play, Do I?

The students
Production: Activity 5: Speaking will be able to
5 skills use the
Student + min. practice of targeted
Student The teacher will instruct the structure
learners to have a role play in the tag
Interaction freely, which
will happen. pairs of a detective and a suspect questions will enable
in which the detective will In real life them to get
Student + investigate the suspect about the like more
situation understanding
Student crime by using tag questions. The of the
Interaction teacher will circulate among the structure .
students if they have any The learners
problems, he/she will facilitate will have a free
practice during
them.
this activity
and the
teacher will
play the role of
just a
facilitator.

Follow up: 3 The learners will be asked to write They already

min. Writing have practiced
 a dialogue between a mother and a /Tag the same
daughter using present Question activity spoken
vise, now they
Affirmative/Negative Tag will be given a
Home Task Questions for the purpose of practice of
reconfirmation about her routine written as well.
Writing a in college and they will bring the
dialogue home task the next day which will
between be checked by the teacher and will
mother and devise activities according to their
a daughter needs for the next class.
using tag
questions in
present Ind.
Tense for
reconfirmati
on.

1. Dialogue
2. Dialogue chart.
3. Source