Lesson Plan – Present Tense & Adverbs of Frequency (for Senior Primary)

LEE, Gwangmin; LEE, Fung King Jackie

The Hong Kong Institute of Education

Unit plan

Unit: My day – Free time

Learning objectives of the unit:

By the end of the unit, students should be able to:

- Use adverbs of frequency (sometimes, always, never, usually, often and seldom) to talk about how
frequently they do an activity.
- Use the simple present tense to ask and describe habitual actions “How often do you ___________?” “I
(adverbs of frequency) _____________________”.

Lesson 1 Introduction of adverbs of frequency

Lesson 2 Making your own timetable

Lesson 3 Class survey – the most popular activities

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 Lesson plan 1

Unit: My day
Topic: Weekly Activities
Time: 35 mins
Level: Senior Primary (P5 – P6)

Learning objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the meanings expressed by different adverbs of frequency
(sometimes, always, never, usually, often and seldom).

Prior knowledge:
Students have learnt
- The vocabulary of weekly activities
- Days of the week and their short forms
- The present tense

Time Purpose Step Teaching aids

allocation
15 To T tells Ss that they are going to learn how to say how Song “What do
minutes introduce often they do an activity. you do every
the day?”
adverbs of T plays the song “What do you do every day?”, which https://www.y
frequency contains adverbs of frequency. T asks Ss to fill in the outube.com/wa
adverbs, and sing the song. tch?v=Rob0-
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T then plays a video clip on how often Martha does
different activities. After viewing the video clip, T Martha’s
shows the PPT to Ss and lets them fill in the blanks activities
using adverbs of frequency. https://www.y
outube.com/wa
T plays the video clip once more and asks students to tch?v=v9odRPd
give the answers. MGv8 (0:00 –
0:50).
T writes the adverbs of the frequency in the blanks.
PPT
Worksheet
(Lesson 1, Part
A (a))

20 To help Ss T asks Ss to guess the meanings of the adverbs of PPT

minutes understand frequency based on the videos they have watched. T
the explains the adverbs of frequency with the PPT.
meanings
expressed T asks students to give examples about how often
by they do an activity.
different
adverbs of T asks Ss to demonstrate their understanding of the
frequency adverbs of frequency by colouring the circles and Worksheet
complete the frequency pyramid on the worksheet. (Lesson 1 Part
T checks the answers with Ss. A (b) & B)

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 Lesson plan 2

Unit: My day
Topic: Weekly activities
Time: 60 mins
Level: Senior Primary (P5 – P6)

Learning objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
- Use adverbs of frequency (sometimes, always, never, usually, often and seldom) to talk about how
frequently they do an activity.
- Use the simple present tense to describe habitual actions
- Use the sentence form “What activity do you do every week?” and “How often do you ________?”/
“How often does he/she ____________?” to collect information about their classmates’ weekly
activities and the frequencies.
-
Prior knowledge:
Students have learnt
- The vocabulary of weekly activities
- Days of the week and their short forms

Time Purpose Step Teaching

allocation aids
10 minutes To arouse - T asks the whole class and individual students: Pictures of
Ss’ “How often do you ___________?” activities
previous
knowledge - T invites Ss to ask their classmates questions
“How often do you ______________?” (T shows
pictures of activities to let Ss ask the questions).
15 minutes To give Ss - T shows Peter’s timetable for the summer Lesson 2
language holiday. Worksheet
practice - T asks students, “How often does Peter (Part A)
___________?”
- T goes through the timetable and counts the
ticks together with students.
- Ss have to write sentences to describe Peter’s
summer timetable using adverbs of frequency.
5 minutes - T invites Ss to read out the writing.

10 minutes To T tells students that they are going to exchange Lesson 2

consolidate information about their weekly activities. Worksheet
the (Part B)
learning T shows his/her own weekly activities as an
example.
To
personalize T: Today you have to tell your friends your weekly
the activities. I’d like to show you my weekly activities
teaching first.
materials
In the first column, I have written down the activities
that I do every week.

Then in the second column, I have put down how

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 many times I do the activity in a week.

In the 3rd column, please write a sentence about how

often I do the activity.

T checks answers with students after they have

written the sentences.

15 minutes To allow Information gap activity Lesson 2

students to T asks Ss to complete the first table about their own Worksheet
interact weekly activities. information
with each gap activity
other about Then Ss are asked to do an information gap activity
their own – they have to find out what weekly activities their
daily lives friend does and how often by asking:

What activities do you do every week?

How often do you do…?

Finally, Ss have to write sentences about their

friend’s weekly activities using adverbs of
frequency.

5 minutes Class T invites some Ss to tell the class their friend’s

sharing weekly activities.

To check
Ss’
progress

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 Lesson plan 3
Unit: My day
Topic: Class survey
Time: 35 mins
Level: Senior Primary (P5 – P6)

Learning objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
- Use adverbs of frequency (sometimes, always, never, usually, often and seldom) to talk about how
frequently they do an activity.
- Use the simple present tense to describe habitual actions
- Ask questions and answer using the target language to do the class survey

Prior knowledge:
Students have learnt
- The vocabulary of weekly activities
- Adverbs of frequency (sometimes, always, never, usually, often and seldom) to talk about how
frequently they do an activity
- To use the sentence form “How often do you __________?” “How often does he/she _______?”

Time Purpose Step Teaching

allocation aids
10 minutes To introduce T asks students to take out the timetable that they
the learning made in the last lesson.
objective of
the lesson
and recall T tells students that students will collect information,
previous and will draw a chart and a graph to show the find out
learning the most popular weekly activity among the students.

15 minutes To find out T shows a chart on the board showing adverbs of Lesson 3
the most frequency. Worksheet
popular (Part 1)
weekly T demonstrates to Ss how to fill the chart. T looks at
activity his/her own timetable and fills the chart.
among
students. T asks students to write down their activity under each
adverb of frequency.

T asks students to take turns to come out and write.

T counts the number of activities together with

students for the “always” column, as the aim of this
activity is to find out the most popular weekly activity.

T: What kinds of activities do students always do?

How many students always do ___________?

10 minutes To practise Report writing Lesson 3

report T asks students to complete the graph based on the Worksheet
writing information collected in Part 1, and write sentences to (Part 2)
report the results.