
ESL Lesson Plan focused on Basic English Grammar: Present Simple Tense for beginner students. This plan includes objectives, activities, and assessments.
Lesson Plan: Present Simple Tense
Level: Beginner
Duration: 60 minutes
Topic: Present Simple Tense
Objective:
- Students will be able to use the Present Simple tense to talk about daily routines and habits.
- Students will correctly form affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences in the Present Simple tense.
Materials Needed:
- Whiteboard and markers
- Flashcards with daily routine actions (e.g., eat, sleep, run)
- Handouts with exercises (gap-fill, sentence building)
- Pictures or flashcards illustrating daily routines
Lesson Outline:
1. Warm-Up (5 minutes)
- Objective: Activate prior knowledge and get students talking.
- Activity: Start by asking students simple questions about their day (e.g., “What time do you wake up?” “What do you eat for breakfast?”).
- Interaction: Teacher-student interaction. Encourage students to respond with short, simple answers.
2. Presentation (10 minutes)
- Objective: Introduce the structure of the Present Simple tense.
- Explanation:
- Affirmative: Subject + base verb (e.g., “I eat breakfast at 7 a.m.”)
- Negative: Subject + do/does not + base verb (e.g., “She does not eat breakfast.”)
- Question: Do/Does + subject + base verb? (e.g., “Do you eat breakfast?”)
- Teacher-Led Explanation: Write examples on the board for affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences.
3. Guided Practice (15 minutes)
- Objective: Practice forming sentences in the Present Simple tense.
- Activity: Hand out worksheets with sentence-building exercises. Provide a list of subjects (I, you, she, he, they, etc.) and base verbs (eat, run, sleep, etc.). Ask students to form affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences.
- Pair Work: Let students work in pairs to complete the exercises.
- Monitor: Teacher walks around, giving feedback and answering questions.
4. Speaking Activity (10 minutes)
- Objective: Encourage students to use the Present Simple tense in conversation.
- Activity: Flashcards of daily routines. Each student picks a card and describes their routine using the Present Simple tense (e.g., “I wake up at 6 a.m.”). Another student asks a follow-up question in the Present Simple tense (e.g., “Do you wake up early every day?”).
- Interaction: Pair or small group discussion.
5. Listening and Writing (10 minutes)
- Objective: Improve listening comprehension and writing skills.
- Activity: The teacher reads aloud a short text about someone’s daily routine. Students listen and write down key information.
- Example Text: “John wakes up at 6 a.m. He eats breakfast at 7 a.m. He goes to work at 8 a.m. and finishes at 5 p.m.”
- Follow-up: Students answer questions about the text.
6. Production (5 minutes)
- Objective: Have students create their own sentences.
- Activity: Each student writes 3 sentences about their daily routine: one affirmative, one negative, and one question in the Present Simple tense.
- Sharing: Students read their sentences aloud to the class or in pairs.
7. Review and Assessment (5 minutes)
- Objective: Summarize the lesson and assess learning.
- Activity: Ask students questions to check their understanding (e.g., “How do you form a negative sentence in the Present Simple tense?” or “What is the auxiliary verb for he/she in questions?”).
- Homework: Assign a short worksheet with gap-fill exercises or ask students to write a paragraph describing their daily routine.
Assessment:
- Participation in class discussions and speaking activities.
- Completion of written exercises and worksheets.
- Observation of sentence accuracy during guided practice and speaking activities.
Follow-Up Lesson: In the next lesson, introduce frequency adverbs (always, sometimes, never) to add detail to students’ sentences in the Present Simple tense.
This lesson plan provides a balanced mix of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, ensuring that students practice using the Present Simple tense in multiple contexts.