Supporting Essay for Lesson Plan

The lesson plan is both student and teacher oriented. This lesson plan draws from the teacher's previous experiences while interacting with other pre-intermediate students. It's designed for pre-intermediate students for a grammar class. There are 12 students in the classroom who are aged between 13-16 years. The focus of the lesson is on how to use of present simple verbs in sentences. It will be a review for the students to use these verbs, they have prior use of present simple verb form. For this lesson, students will be taught how present simple verbs are used in sentences. There will be need of teaching students how present simple verbs can be used to change the structure of the verb in sentences. Teaching verbs sometimes may be confusing to pre-intermediate students so for the students to understand this lesson there will be a lot of interactions between the teacher and the students. Confusion might arise when trying to identify verbs in a sentence as they can come in different parts of a sentence and various forms.

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At the beginning of the session, I choose to have an interactive session with the students where the student would first tell me his or her name and then mention a simple past verb that he/she knows. Then the students would have to read some of the sentences that were displayed using a PowerPoint presentation then try and identify the simple past verbs in the sentences. Using this visual method, the students could easily recall the verbs that they have learned. This reintroduces the students to some of the simple past verbs, and they are used in sentences. This process follows a deductive approach. After the student is through with reading out the simple past verbs, I will introduce other forms of the simple past verbs that are different, and that might be more difficult for the students. I will explain this to them with the help of the whiteboard and give an idea of how these simple past verbs are formed. Enough time is allocated for the teaching to have enough time to review all the basic rules and also give students time for questions sessions.

After introducing the formation of the simple past verbs and how they can be used. Then I will continue teaching student how they are used in sentences through activities. For students to practice and master the content. The purpose of the exercise will be to warm up the student's mind and review the use of simple past verbs in sentence structures. I chose to use another method with my supervision where students can test their understanding of the simple past verbs without primarily having to memorize them. In this students are supposed to fill in the gaps with the correct form of the simple past verb. I gave them this exercise because it helps students to associate the specific past simple verbs with given verbs while mainly the focus is on the verb chosen. For the plan, the students will also be introduced on how to use past simple verbs with noun formation.

The second exercise that students undertook was the comprehension check of how simple past verbs are used with objects in sentences. The activity was used to check whether they understand how verbs relate to object in sentences, although all sentences do not need an object at the end. We will introduce the affirmative and negative tense of the simple past verb to show a pattern of how they are constructed. The students worked independently (or in groups depending on the progress- and filled in the blank exercises after which they checked answers with the other students (in groups.) This is where the grammar worksheet will be given.

During the last minutes of class, I will ask students to recap on what they have learned during the lesson the lesson and also write down the same.

Give an assignment to the students, to be submitted later

Conclusion

In conclusion, I had considered various aspects when planning this lesson: approaches, the adaptation of activities, students level and age and prior knowledge and level of the activities some of the fundamental aspects of the lesson.

There were other activities like children play involving past simple verbs, getting in groups and choosing a spokesperson amongst the group to read sentences out loud to the class (2 minute limit per group) giving a brief summary on their understanding of the simple past tense.

The end goal is for the students to be able to construct a written letter to their teacher about their lessons, in the summer class, and be able to explain the past simple verb usage by the end of class.

There was a plan B if any of the activity failed. As the teacher, I would walk around the class checking what they are doing that might be disrupting them from undertaking the activity and also offer personal assistance to those students who have questions concerning anything related to the activity.

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