Grammar Lesson Plan

Context: Intermediate Students

Learner Needs: To learn and practice giving advice.
Objectives/Aims: Students will be able to write using the modal auxiliary verbs
“should”, “could”, and “would” to give advice.
Assumptions: I’m presuming that these students have enough language knowledge
understand this grammatical structure.
Language Analysis: This lesson will focus on the usage of “should” and “could” to
make suggestions/give advice.
Materials: Writing materials
Timing/Sequencing: 55 minutes.
Assessment: Collect student’s tips for travelling in their hometown.
Reflection:

Lesson Plan:
Stage Aim Procedure Mats. Focus Tim
e
Warm up

Start students Call on students to list some of the None. T-S 5

thinking about advice they’ve been given in their life, or
advice they what advice they give to others. To keep
have been with theme of lesson, ask them for what
given. advice they hear/give for travelling to
foreign countries/cities. List them on the
board.

Lesson activities/assessments

Provide Explain how should and could are used Getting 10-
examples of to make suggestions and give advice. students 15
how Write a few prompts on the board (What familiar
should/could/ monuments should I visit on the National with
would are Mall?) and model different examples. different
used to make Discuss the difference in meaning (could ways of
suggestions/gi is used for suggestions, while should giving
ve advice. gives more definite advice. advice/mak
ing
Show “Giving Polite Advice” YouTube suggestions
video to model the phrase “If I were you, .
I would____” After video, ask students
how we could rephrase their advice from
the warm-up to fit this structure.
Practice using On back of the handout, have 3-4 Writing S-S-S 5-7
should, could, examples of dialogue using should, materia
and would to could, and would to make suggestions. ls.
 give advice. (Ex: A: I need to get to Ronald Reagan
National Airport.
B: You could take a taxi, but they are
very expensive. You should take the
Metro.
C: You should not take the Metro, the
Blue Line has too many delays.)

Have students read dialogues in small

groups.
Practice Distribute “5 Tips for Washington, D.C., Writing S-S-S 5-7
writing using tourists” article (simplied), have students materia
should/could/ divide into small groups and take turns ls
would reading the different tips. Ask students
to rewrite the tips (Visit your
Congressman/Congresswoman, tune into
the music scene [may have to explain this
phrase]) using the phrases “If I were you
I would”, “When in DC, you should”, or
“When visiting DC, you could”

Ask students to volunteer to read their

revised version of the tips aloud.
Practice Harking back to Bokyung’s lesson, ask S-S 5-7
speaking using students to speak in pairs and offer
should/could/ advice about their favorite restaurant in
would DC (When in DC, you should eat at/visit
X restaurant/try this particular dish). If
students finish this topic early, ask them
to give advice about their favorite places
to go in DC.
Conclusion

Produce Ask students to think about what advice 15

writing advice they would give to a tourist visiting their
using own hometown. Model my own
should/could/ paragraph for Toledo, OH. When
would students finish, ask for volunteers to read
them to the class.