English Language Form 4 - Lesson 2 (Language Awareness)

Today I had my second lesson with 4S1 on language awareness which is the second lesson in Form 4 CEFR - aligned Scheme of Work.

So this was how the lesson went : 

After introducing the success criteria, I gave 5 minutes for the students to discuss Simple Present and Present Continuous in their groups. They had learnt these tenses while they were in  Form 2 and 3. So, this lesson was an extension of what was learnt in previous years. The discussion was to activate their schemata. 

The discussion led to the next activity where students had to identify Simple Present and Present Continous in a teacher prepared task sheet and they were also required to identify and circle all the Stative verbs used in the sentences. You can download the task sheet here. 

Upon completing Task A in the task sheet, students were asked to put the task sheet aside. I continued the lesson by directing students to look at page 9 in their textbooks and gave examples of the two tenses that were being focussed. We also discussed how Simple Present Tense and Present Continuous Tense were used in context by referring to the text on Social Networking Sites(page8). Students were asked to identify all the Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses in the text. Stative verbs were also discussed. 

After the discussion ended students were asked to look at the task sheet again and check and correct their answers. Task B in the task sheet and the grammar practise in the textbook were given as homework. 

After completing the tasks, students played a board game. To play this game you need a dice and also a striker. This is how the game is played:  

1. The game has words that are used in the text on Social Networking Sites and some are related to computer vocabulary. 

2. At the bottom of each word, it is stated Simple Present or Present Continuous. 

3. Students who stop at Present Continuous will have to verbally construct a sentence in Present Continuous and if they stop at Simple Present, they will have to construct a sentence on Simple Present. 

4. You may download the board game here. 

5. For every correct sentence, students get 2 marks and a deduction of 2 marks for wrong 

    sentence-construction (I made the rules simple, as to not complicate things). 

The pictures below were taken when my students were playing the grammar boardgame. 

Before the lesson ended, students completed exit cards on what they learnt today. 

Happy Teaching!!