SAMPLE LESSON PLAN (YOUNG LEARNERS)

DURATION:

20 minutes

AGE LEVEL:

12 years old (6th grade students)

LINGUISTIC LEVEL:

Intermediate

SUBJECT:

Daily routines

AIMS:

Teaching vocabulary about daily routines and using it in a sentence

SOCIAL FOCUS:

Students will be able to create simple sentences about daily routines by using “the present simple tense” and they will be able to do group/pair work in tasks and games. They also will be able to do complex activities.  

SKILL FOCUS:

Listening, writing, speaking and reading

LEXICAL FOCUS:

Students will be able to distinguish the phrases used to describe daily routines; “listen to music, do exercises, play games, drink fruit juice, do homework, leave home, have lessons, have a shower, read books, draw pictures, have breakfast, drive a car, surf the net, get up, watch  TV, have lunch, ride a bicycle, get on the bus, get shaved, wash face, walk to school, brush teeth, prepare breakfast, get dressed, sleep” and pronounce them correctly. They also will be able to use “the present simple tense” by using these phrases.

POSSIBLE PROBLEMS:

Students can misunderstand or mispronounce some words.

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:

The teacher will try to explain the words in a different way or in a more detailed way when they misunderstand. And the teacher will make students repeat the words as a whole class when they mispronounce.

MATERIALS:

Video, song, pictures, crossword puzzle and handouts

WARM UP:

The teacher tries to take the students’ attention to the course.

ACTIVITY 1:

The teacher greets the class and he asks the students if they want to watch a video. After they watch the video once, the teacher will introduce the lesson in general terms: “today we will learn daily routines” And he asks the students if they want to watch it again. After the students say “okay”, the teacher will say “now, try to repeat the sentences and make gestures about it” Whole class watches the video again and they try to repeat the sentences by making gestures.

ACTIVITY 2:

To increase the number of learned phrases the teacher gives the crossword puzzle handouts to the students. Before the students start to complete the puzzle, the teacher will introduce the phrases one by one on back page of the handouts by using gestures and acting out. Then, they complete it.

ACTIVITY 3:

To reinforce the learned phrases the teacher sticks some pictures prepared before the lesson and they check the answers together. The teacher wants to the class say the answer and then he says the phrases in a sentence by using “The Present Simple tense.” After completing the puzzle together, the teacher wants the students to try to use these learned phrases in a sentence. If there will be a problem in a use of the phrases in a sentence, the teacher will introduce “simple present tense” briefly.

ACTIVITY 4:

To consolidate the learned phrases the teacher gives the students the reading handouts in which there is a popular movie star’s daily routine. After reading the text, the teacher and the students answer the comprehension questions altogether.

ENDING:

The teacher repeats the learned phrases again. After that, he want the students to create their own daily routine. When the student make any gesture, the students will try to make sentence about it. They will do it again and again. After all, they will have their own daily routine.