Present Continuous

LESSON PLANNING SHEET

1. - General information
← Name of the school: Sor Angela Lecca.
← Date: Thursday, January 15th , 2008
← Hour: 11:00 am
← Class: 3º
←Topic: Present Progressive
← Trainee: Pastrana Patricio Gabriela Lisbeth

2. – Class description


a. Students’ Background: Students have basic-intermediate knowledge of English.b. Frequency and Duration of the classes:. The students have been taking a two – four hours English class per week.
c. Possible problems: Students may not be used to followinginstructions in English they may feel strange when using English to express their ideas. They may need some extra explanation in their native language.

3. - Aims of the class.

General Objective:At the end of the class students will be able to identify the structure and the use of present progressive tense in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentencesSpecific Objectives:
• Talk about actions that happening now.
• Ask and answer about actions using the present continuous.






4. - Anticipated problems and possiblesolutions.

|Anticipated problems |Possible solutions |
|Students may not be able to rememberthe form of the verb to be. |Teacher will make a short review of the verb “Be”. |
|Students may have problems remembering some vocabulary. |Teacherwill help students with gestures and pictures |
|If the teacher does not have enough time to cover some activities. |Teacher will give them as a homework|

5. Methodology
Teacher uses the Communicative Language Teaching:
a. Objective of the Method: Communicative competence, the ability to use the linguistic...