One Computer calss Sample lesson

Class description:

Level: Elementary

Lesson focus: The present continuous

Timing: 55 minutes

Activities: video viewing – reading comprehension – grammar practice.

Materials: A computer, a video projector, loud speakers, textbooks, blackboard.

Objectives: (ABCD Format)

Using a PPT, a video and some pictures (C), elementary students (A) will discover, understand and learn the present continuous (affirmative and negative forms) (B) to talk about present actions or describe pictures in written and oral forms (D).

Procedure:

Warm up:

Setting the scene: Use a video about Jamaâ El Fna in Marrakech, Morocco and ask students what they see and about the type of the activities in the area.

Time: (6 min)

Video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-FUM74WsQo&feature=related

Reading: Students read the following text and do true/false comprehension exercise that follows.

The comprehension text: (10 min)

Dear Jim and Joyce, Marrakech is fantastic! We are walking in Jamaâ El Fna. Many things are happening. We love Gnawa. They are dancing and playing good music. Some children are doing fascinating acrobatic exercises. They are standing on their friends shoulders. A man is playing with very big snakes. We are enjoying everything in Marrakech. It’s a pity you aren’t with us. Paul and Laura.

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Task:

1. Jim and Laura are walking in Jamaâ El Fna.
2. Some children aren’t dancing.
3. A clown is playing with snakes.
4. Jim and Joyce aren’t enjoying the show.

Correction: Correction with the whole class. Projection of the answers on slides.

Grammar: (30 min)

Presentation:

• Encourage the students to observe the target structures in the text and come up with the form of the present continuous.
• Present the form on slides highlighting the target structures with colours.

Practice:

1. Use pictures on slides and ask students to describe them. (Oral practice)
2. Students do exercises on a handout.

Correction: Correct with the whole class projecting the answers on slides and focusing on accuracy.

Further practice:

Students write a story on the light of projected pictures.