This lesson plan aims to teach beginner level students about hobbies and the vocabulary to describe how often activities are done. The 45-minute lesson uses various interactive activities like games, videos, pictures and group discussions to introduce target vocabulary words for common hobbies and frequency terms like "usually", "always", and "never". Students practice describing their own hobbies and how regularly they engage in different activities. The lesson concludes by assigning homework where students write two paragraphs, each about a different hobby and how often they do it.

1. Lesson Plan: Hobbies and Frequency
Preparation
Level Beginner
Lesson
Length
45 minutes
Objective To learn and practice the vocabulary of hobbies and to revise adverbs of
frequency.
Target Language Target vocabulary words:
1. I like to... 9. Usually
2. Dance 10. Always
3. Sing 11. Often
4. Play video games 12. Never
5. Watch tv 13. Sometimes
6. play sports
7. hang out with friends
8. Play sports
Assumed Knowledge Students know basic grammar knowledge, simple verb conjugations, know
basic phrases and idioms, and have a vocabulary that is able to express
common things.
Anticipated Problems Students are not quite yet conversational, the vocabulary that I teach them
may not suffice to cover all of the students’ unique hobbies.
Solutions Give everyone a chance to browse in a dictionary beforehand and find the
translation to their desired hobby
Preparation and Aids Show them a youtube video with different people engaging in hobbies and
narrate to the students the names of the hobbies. The visual aid is to help
those students who are visual learners. My narration and extra description of
the pictures will help the audio learners. A video like this is what I would show
to my class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bCTQCbGMPw
Lesson Plan
Stage Activity Interaction Timing
1 Warm-up: Alphabet game. Put students in groups of three to
four. Write the first 15 letters of the alphabet up on the board.
Ask the groups to find one word for each letter of the alphabet
and write it down.
S-S 5 mins
2 Lead-in: Draw a picture on the board of a boy playing soccer.
Tell the class a short story about the boy. His name is Little
Johnny, and his hobby is soccer. He loves soccer and plays it
every day. Describe to them what a hobby is.
T-S 3 mins
3 Pair work: Students discuss among themselves in pairs what
their hobbies are and what they do in their free time
S-S
PW
7 mins
4 Class participation: Have each student tell the class what their
favorite hobby is. I will record a tally of the most common
hobbies that students say.
S-T
GW
5 mins

2. 5 YouTube video: Show the class the youtube video I provided.
Make sure to write on the board all of the hobbies mentioned in
the video that were not yet covered in class.
T-S 4 mins
6 Pictures: Show the students pictures of hobbies that have not
yet been mentioned. First see if the students can say what they
are in English before I tell them the words.
T-S
S-T
6 mins
7 Climate locations: Have students get together in groups of 3 or
4. Give each group a general location (Desert, beach, mountains,
snow, NYC, etc) and have them figure out which hobbies would
best be suited for those particular areas
GW
S-S
8 mins
8 Corrections: Correct students’ speech from when they talked
about which hobbies would be best suited for certain areas.
Correct areas of grammar, syntax, and vocab. Write corrections
on board.
T-S 2 mins
9 Frequency 1: Teach the students the main words of frequency
(always, never, sometimes, etc)
T-S 3 mins
10 Frequency 2: Ask students to write down 5 hobbies they like.
Then ask them to write next to it how often they do it
GW
S-T
2
11 Homework: Students must write 2 paragraphs, each one
depicting a different hobby, and talk about the hobby, what it
requires them to do, how often they actually do it and how
often they would like to do it.
T-S 1 min