Lesson Plan

General Information:
Level: Primary 4
Number of Students: 32
Time: 35 minutes
Course materials: New Welcome to English Book 4A, 2nd edition, (Unit 6), Longman.
Topic: Every day
Objectives:
- Students can correctly use the simple present tense. Especially, students will be able to add “s”
or “es” to the verbs when using third personal singular pronouns “he”, “she” or “it”.
Prior knowledge:
- Some simple actions, e.g. having a shower, doing homework, getting up early etc.
Teaching materials: Flash cards, action cards, music, a ball and Longman Workbook

Procedures:
Content
Time Teaching procedures Aims Aids
stages
8 min Presentation 1 Teacher presents the use - To give students an idea of -Flash cards
of simple present tense the “I” presentation of
and the word ‘every day” simple present tense.
using “I”. (E.g. I do
homework every day.)
2 Teacher presents the uses - To give students an idea of
of simple present tense the “he” or “she”
and the word “every day” presentation of simple
using “he” or “she”. (E.g. present tense.
He does homework every
day.)
3 Teacher clearly presents - To clarify students’
the difference between the concepts or correct their
above two. common mistakes.
4 Teacher seeks choral - To keep students’ attention.
response from the
students.
5 Teacher uses more - To give students more
examples to illustrate the examples so that the
above. students will be more
familiar with the use of the
simple present tense.

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10 min Practice 1 Teacher gives clear - To let students know what - A collection
instructions and a to do in this activity. of action
demonstration about the cards-
activity.
(The theme of the activity
is to guess what he or she
does every day.)
2. Teacher asks one student - To add fun to the lesson so
to come out and draw a that the students can enjoy
card. The student is and learn.
requested to act out the
action written on the card.
(E.g. sweeping the floor)
3 The rest of the students - To further reinforce what
are requested to guess was taught before.
what that particular
student does every day.
Students are required to
tell in the following way:
E.g. He sweeps the floor
every day.
4 Students chorally repeat - Repetition can help
the sentence pattern. students to memorise the
sentence pattern.
5 There will be some more
rounds of the above.
10 min Consolidation 1 Teacher gives clear - To let students know what - CD
instructions about the to do in this activity. - Ball
activity
2 Teacher gives the ball to - To let students to have free
one of the students and production about what was
then plays the music and being taught before.
when the music stops, the
student who holds the ball
is expected to stand up
and tell the whole class
what he or she does every
day, say, “I sweep the
floor every day.”.
3 The rest of the students To further reinforce what
are required to tell what was taught.
that particular student
does every day in the
following way:
He sweeps the floor every
day.
4. The above will go on for
several rounds.

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3 min Conclusion 1 Teacher gives a quick - To clarify students’ wrong
conclusion and explains concepts.
some common errors.
4 min Giving 1. Teacher gives homework - To explain some of the - Pre-task WB
homework to the students and may do examples on homework so
some questions with the that students will not find it
students. difficult to complete the
homework.

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