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Jesse Stuart Jesse Stuart

Lesson PlanLesson Plan

Reviewing Simple PresentReviewing Simple Present

The Teaching ContextThe Teaching Context

School: U.E Nuestra Sra. de la ConsolaciónSchool: U.E Nuestra Sra. de la Consolación Grade: 9thGrade: 9th Age Average: 14-15 Age Average: 14-15 Number of students: 38/2 = 19 per sessionNumber of students: 38/2 = 19 per session Level: IntermediateLevel: Intermediate Time: 90 minutesTime: 90 minutes Aims: -To review the Simple PresentAims: -To review the Simple Present

-Describing Simple present events and-Describing Simple present events and

recognizing present tensesrecognizing present tenses

Pre – ReadingPre – Reading15-20 minutes15-20 minutes

Play a cartoon / PicturesPlay a cartoon / Pictures

Associate cartoon with real peopleAssociate cartoon with real people

Spider web design.Spider web design.

Reading the Text: Reading the Text: 45 minutes45 minutes

Distribute copies of an extract of the storyDistribute copies of an extract of the story Have them read itHave them read it Prompt students to identify sentences in the Prompt students to identify sentences in the

Present Simple. Present Simple. Provide some printouts with expressions used Provide some printouts with expressions used

by the farmer which are grammatically by the farmer which are grammatically deviant.deviant.

Ask them to rewrite in a more standard form, Ask them to rewrite in a more standard form, the sentences selected from the text. the sentences selected from the text.

Check the sentences on the board. Check the sentences on the board.

PrintoutsPrintouts

““he don’t take into consideration he don’t take into consideration what all I haf to do here,…”what all I haf to do here,…”

““this ain’t no high school.”this ain’t no high school.”

““It jist don’t look good to me,…”It jist don’t look good to me,…”

““He ain’t got th’ right kind o’ a He ain’t got th’ right kind o’ a

heart!”heart!”

After ReadingAfter Reading: : 15-20 minutes15-20 minutes

Ask your students to form groups of Ask your students to form groups of maximum four.maximum four.

Handle in a bag with cutouts of the Handle in a bag with cutouts of the different parts a sentence structure.different parts a sentence structure.

Tell your students to make as Tell your students to make as many sentences as they can, using many sentences as they can, using the simple present until there are the simple present until there are no more cutoutsno more cutouts

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Follow UpFollow Up

Provide students copies of the complete Provide students copies of the complete short story and ask them to read it at short story and ask them to read it at home.home.

Provide students some exercise sheets Provide students some exercise sheets and ask them to do them at home and and ask them to do them at home and hand them in for further correction.hand them in for further correction.

For a further activity to be developed in For a further activity to be developed in the classroom, you can ask students to the classroom, you can ask students to bring pictures of their bring pictures of their parents/grandparents.parents/grandparents.

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

Arithmetic tell you how many you lose or win if you know how many you had before you lost or won.

Arithmetic is seven eleven all good children go to heaven-- or five six bundle of stricks.

Arithmetic is numbers you sqeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky – or the answer is wrong and you have all over and try again and see how it comes out this time.

If you take number and double it and double it again and then double it a few more times , the number gets bigger and bigger and goes higher and higher and only arithmetic can tell you what the number is when you decide to quit doubling.

Arithmetic is where you have to multiply – and you carry the multiplication table in your head and hope you won´t lose it.

If you have two animal crackers, one good and one bad and you eat one and a stipped zebra with streaks all over him eats the other how many animal crakers will you have if somebody offers you five six seven and you say No no no and you say Nay nay nay and you say Nix nix nix ?.

If you ask your mother for one fried egg for breakfast and she gives you two fried eggs and you eat both of them, who is better in arithmetic you or your mother?.

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