Lesson Plan Theme: Pronunciation

Description: Students learn about an ultra-modern school where anything goes and the usual rules don't apply! This lesson plan acts as a revision for Present Simple, although there is some vowel phoneme work and also object pronouns are looked at.

Description: The lesson opens with some there is/are/it's revision to describe places that are easy or hard to live in. The main reading deals with an astronaut who lives in a simulated Mars environment and introduces the negative form of the Present Simple. There is a look at the structure of the negative before some pronunciation work on two frequently used vowel phonemes: /aI/ and /eI/. The lesson ends with a fun game to give practice of negative forms.

Description: The lesson starts with some food vocabulary and ways of expressing like/dislike for each. The grammatical focus of the lesson is the use of the negative form of the Present Simple tense, especially in this lesson for 3rd person. There is also work on /s/ and /z/ phonemes, important for the correct pronunciation of doesn't. A writing game that brings together both Present Simple negative and food vocabulary closes off the lesson.

Description: This lesson, which focuses on Present Simple questions, centers around an astronaut who works on the Space Station. After some work on hyphenated numbers, we read about Ben and his daily routine miles above the Earth's surface. After focusing on 'do' and 'does' questions, the lesson finishes with some pronunciation work on two often-confused phonemes: /f/ and /θ/

Description: Phone messages and how we convey emotions are the themes of this lesson. Students classify positive and negative adjectives and there is some focus on pronunciation and the phonetic alphabet. An energetic vocabulary game finishes the lesson.

Description: Students get practice of asking basic 'to be' questions and thinking about the word order. We work on two important vowel phonemes: /e/ and /a:/ and play a fun Odd One Out game. Students get a good chance to speak and use this lesson's learning at the end.

Description: The focus of this lesson is the vocabulary of family relationships: brother, uncle, niece, etc. After an opener based on famous people's lesser-known relatives, the students learn familial vocabulary, then do some work on /k/ and /s/ phonemes. The lesson closes with a fast-paced speaking game based on the students' families.

Description: A look at the pronunciation of the past simple regular form and some work also on recognising regular and irregular forms. After reading about somebody's vacation, student's talk about their own in a card-based game.

Description: Based around objects often found in a lost property office, this lesson focuses above all on the spelling and pronunciation of regular plurals such as families, watches, cases, etc.

Description: A pronunciation lesson more than a speaking one. Works on the pronunciation of regular past simple with the three possible endings.

Description: Leroy is on a European vacation and sends his family a "speaking postcard". Some work on word stress and a review of past simple, present continuous, going to future.

Description: Focus on the vocabulary associated with environmental issues with some work also on the pronunciation of certain harder words too.

Description: A lesson plan that deals with the practicalities and the vocabulary of filling in forms, as well as practicing simple structures using "to be", suitable for this level of student.