Teacher: Younes Abajtit School: Temsamane High School

Level: common core Topic: The Present Simple

Unit: 4 Theme: Economy and Education
Lesson: Grammar Time: 50 min

Objective: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to use the present simple tense.

Time Stage / Purpose Procedure / Steps Materials needed

5 min Warm up  T greets Ss

 Present continuous revision

15 min Presentation  Ss study this example situation:

“Alex is a bus driver, but now he is in bed asleep.
He is not driving a bus. (He is asleep.)
but He drives a bus. He is a bus driver.”
 T elicits the use of the present simple. Data Show
 Ss study the following sentences:
1. The cafe opens at 7.30 in the morning
2. I get up at 8 o’clock every morning
3. Robert usually goes away.
4. I don’t go away very often.
5. Julie doesn’t drink tea very often
6. How often do you go to the dentist?
 T elicits the forms and indicators of the present simple tense.
T Practice Data Show
 Put the verbs between brackets into the correct
form: 1 Julia.........(not / drink) tea very often.
2 What time...................(the banks / close) here?
3 I have a car, but I.........................(not / use) it much.
4 Where (Maria / be) from? Is she Spanish?
5 ‘What...............(you / do)?’ ‘I’m an electrician.’
6 Look at this sentence. What...............(this word / mean)?
7 David …………… (not/be) very fit. He.........................(not / do) any sport.
8 It ……………(take) me an hour to get to school in the morning. How long …….
(it / take) you?
  Find the mistakes:
Do he like basketball?
I likes eating pizza.
She do her homework on the service bus.
The film finishs at eight.
My friends goes on holiday next week.
She carrys her little sister to the car in the morning.
Nicole Kidman act in a lot of films.
We plays in the garden at break.
Our teacher talk very clearly.
15 min Production  Write a paragraph about a typical day at school