Verb patterns
Overview
In this intermediate-level ESL lesson, students will revisit the verb patterns that are essential at this stage of their learning journey. This lesson will place emphasis on using common patterns, like verb + infinitive and verb + gerund. Such knowledge is crucial for students to accurately construct sentences and express their ideas more effectively in English.
The lesson plan begins with a suggested boardwork example, providing one straightforward and effective approach to present these verb patterns. Students will then work through several low-resource activities centred around collaborative grammar and writing tasks. The lesson concludes with a classroom game, ensuring a lively and enjoyable review of the material.
Lesson Outline
Classroom activities
Use of the board
The students will review some common verb patterns appropriate to the intermediate level.
Discuss each group of verbs with respect to verb patterns, providing examples of some common verbs that fall into these categories.
Verb list
A writing activity where students get the chance to apply what they have learned about the target language for the lesson.
Verb pattern gap-fill
Students have to complete sentences with the correct form of the verb.
True or false?
For this writing activity, students are aiming to fool a classmate with a list of personal statements containing verb patterns.
Classroom games
Dice: Verb patterns
Players have to make sentences using a combination of verbs that have been decided by the throw of the dice.
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