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Grammar
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45-60 min
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Overview

Welcome to our beginner ESL lesson plan on the grammar of there is vs there are. This lesson aims to introduce students to these commonly used grammatical constructions, helping them understand their application in indicating the existence of things. Moreover, students will learn to formulate questions using the same structures.

Suggested boardwork provides a visual aid that can be particularly helpful for new teachers. The lesson includes several low-resource ESL classroom activities to provide hands-on practice with the target language. Finally, the lesson plan provides a classroom game suggestion that can be used as a fun and interactive way to complete the lesson. Enabling students to apply their newly acquired language skills in a fun setting.

Lesson Outline
Activities
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Boardwork
1Is there...?
2Now it's the students' turn
3Article gap-fill
4My bedroom
Games
1Preposition challenge
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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

Your students will learn when to use there is vs there are, along with how to ask questions using the same grammar rules.

First, draw the shelf with the objects specified. Next, explain the usage of the target language. Lean on L1 if you can or demonstrate the usage of both with some simple classroom objects. Finally, elicit statements that describe what's on the shelf and add them to the board.

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Is there...?

A speaking activity that gives students the chance to demonstrate the target language for the lesson.

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Now it's the students' turn

Students get a chance to practice the newly learned language with their classmates.

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Article gap-fill

A writing activity where students create some simple sentences from prompts.

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My bedroom

Students draw a picture of their bedroom, displaying the objects that they wrote about during the previous activity.

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Preposition challenge

Students have to answer questions about the location of different classroom objects. 

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