This lesson plan is for a 6th grade English class teaching the present continuous tense. It includes 3 parts: a warm up word search activity in pairs, a main activity where students write sentences describing images using present continuous verbs on netbooks, and ending by turning off the computers. The objectives are for students to write sentences with the tense and practice reading, speaking, and writing skills.

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LESSON PLAN Nº 3
TEACHER: Estela N. Braun.
MENTOR TEACHER: Romina Cheme Arriaga.
TRAINEES: Monge Ana Valentina and Morán Ana Belén.
SCHOOL: Escuela Nº4 ‘Coronel Remigio Gil’.
COURSE: 6th grade ‘C’ and ‘D’.
TEXTBOOK: Materials provided by the teachers.
DATE: Monday 28 th, August, 2017
TIMETABLE: Mondays and Thursdays from 15.45 Hrs. to 17.25 Hrs.
TOPIC: Present Continuous tense.
CLASS Nº 3
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
 Students will be able to write sentences describing images by using the Present
Continuous tense.
 Students will be able to understand and produce reading, speaking and writing
macro-skills.
ROUTINES:
 Greeting with the usual phrase “Yellow, red, green and blue, hello teacher, how are
you? I’m fine, and you? We are OK, thank you.” repeated by the students, teacher
and trainees.
 Writing down the date on the blackboard.
 Asking students about how they are on this day and if there is anybody absent.
Timing: 3 minutes.

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WARM UP
The trainee will give each student a photocopy with a Word Search game in which
students will have to find 15 ‘-ing’ verbs. The activity will be done in pairs and then
corrected orally with the help of a big poster with the Word Search drawn on it.
• Type of interaction: Students in pairs.
• Macro-skills: Reading and speaking.
• Timing: 12 minutes.
• Materials: Photocopies, poster, whiteboard.
DEVELOPMENT
First activity: The trainee will give one netbook every four students and each of them will
have to write down in the blog of the subject, at least, two sentences describing each of the
images shown using the verbs given.
- Example: ‘Will is eating an ice-cream’.
• Type of interaction: Students individually.
• Macro-skills: Reading and writing.
• Timing: 20 minutes.
• Materials: Netbooks.
CLOSING UP
The trainee will ask the students to carefully turn the computers off and finally she
will say goodbye to them.

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APPENDIX
WARM UP ACTIVITY:

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FIRST ACTIVITY:
Images to describe: