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The present simple

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Overview

In this lesson, we will focus on the basic grammar rules of the present simple tense. By the end of this class, your students should better understand how to use this tense in their everyday conversations.

To get started, we will begin with a couple of optional warmer activities that revise some of the previously covered material on the course. After that, we look at some sample boardwork that offers one way to present the grammar of the present simple. Following that, there are several low-resource classroom activities where your students apply the target language and practice using it in different contexts. As always, we conclude the lesson by recommending a homework assignment and suggesting a classroom game that reinforces the lesson's theme.

Lesson Outline
Warm-up
1Daily routine
2ESL counting circle
Activities
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Boardwork
1Same old routine
2Present simple gap fill
3The third person
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Homework
Games
1True or false quiz
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Warmers

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Giving personal information: Daily routine

Ask each student a few simple questions based on everything they have learned in the course so far.

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ESL counting circle

The students have to count in a circle, aiming to reach as high a number as possible without making a mistake.

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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

The students are introduced to the basic grammar rules of the present simple tense.

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Same old routine

Students will describe a classmate's daily routine.

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Present simple gap fill

The students have to complete the phrases using the correct present simple verb conjugation and an activity expression.

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The third person

The students will work in pairs to think of statements about characters drawn on the board.

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Suggested homework

The students have to learn vocabulary related to the next unit.

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Classroom games

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True or false quiz

Students have to decide whether a statement about their classmates is true or false.

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