This document outlines the lesson plan and activities for an English language lesson about the present continuous versus the present simple tenses. The lesson includes vocabulary building, discussions, readings, grammar explanations and exercises comparing the two tenses. Students practice asking and answering questions in different tenses, read texts about London at different times of year, and do speaking and writing activities about weather and social media posts.
2. • Lead in – pictures describing seasons (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – weather words (15 mins)
• Weather discussion questions (10 mins)
• Listening practice – talking about London (10 mins)
• Speaking – what are the seasons like in your country? (5 mins)
• Reading – comments about the weather (5 mins)
• Grammar highlighting – Present simple vs continuous (5 mins)
• Grammar presentation - Present simple vs continuous (5 mins)
• Grammar exercises - Present simple vs continuous (10 mins)
• Grammar – speaking asking and answering questions in different tenses. (5
mins)
• Reading – London at different times – new vocabulary (10 mins)
• Reading – London at different times – comprehension
questions (10 mins)
• Speaking practice – which places would they like to visit? (5
mins)
• Speaking practice – taxi role play (5 mins)
• Reading practice – social media posts (10 mins)
• Writing practice - social media posts (10 mins)
• Present simple vs continuous free practice (10 mins)
3.
4. 1. 21 (degrees), ten (degrees)
2. It’s probably summer – it could be any month from May to
September.
3. It’s typical weather during this period. British weather is very
changeable.
9. • What’s your favourite type of weather? Why?
• My favourite type of weather is ............ because..........
• What types of weather have you seen / felt?
• I have seen ..........., .............. and .....................
• What do you think of the weather in the UK?
• I like / dislike the weather here because ...................
• What activities do you do in good weather?
• When the weather is good I ..........................
• What activities do you do in bad weather?
• When the weather is bad I ..........................
10. 1. F (It isn’t usually very hot or very cold.)
2. T
3. F (It hardly ever snows.)
4. T
5. F (Today the air is clean and it’s hardly ever foggy.)
11. In summer it’s usually ..........................
In ........................ It usually .....................
12.
13. Tim is sad because he loves snow, but he lives in Valencia and it never snows
there.
Jane is sad because she is on holiday in Cancún, Mexico, but it’s raining.
14. We use the present simple to talk about things that are
normally true.
We use the present continuous to talk about things that are
happening now / at the moment.
40. • Choose three days /times
• Ask your partner questions about these.
• Do you usually .................... on Mondays?
• Yes, I do / No I don’t.
• Are you usually ................. At 7.30?
• Yes, I am / No, I’m not.
