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Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lessonXXXXXXXXXX March 2023 A2: Pre-intermediate 60 Minutes
Lesson Type:
Grammar Lesson
Lesson Topic: Quantifiers
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
1) Recognise; understand; and make appropriate use of quantifiers in 1) Had the opportunity to familiarise themselves with quantifiers by
English sentences. identifying and practicing the use of quantifiers in sentences.
2) Overcome any misconceptions and obstacles regarding the topic.
Example sentence: That student has a lot of apples. 3) Had the opportunity to pronounce sentences with the target
grammar included.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. The young leaners are aged between 11 and 12. This can be a very 1. Most importantly, the teacher and, mainly, the class should set the
challenging age group. Within their ‘pre-teen’ years, they often seem rules for the class to establish a safe and supporting classroom
to be lacking engagement within the classroom, are self-conscious in environment, where everybody feels like a somebody! Value their
front of their peers and they do not have a very long attention span in ideas and encourage participation. Also, the lesson needs to be as fun
comparison to adults. and interactive as possible; and keeping activities short to maintain
2. Students may find it difficult to differentiate between the meaning of students’ concentration, co-operation, and engagement.
the three quantifiers because their use is so interchangeable. They are 2. Assist students with differentiating countable nouns (things we can
all different words used to describe one thing: an excess/surplus of count and has a plural form) from countable nouns (things we cannot
something. count). Teach students about the underlying rules governing the use
of these quantifiers: ‘much’ is used before uncountable nouns. ‘A lot
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, 3. Young French and Italian learners may struggle with the of’ and ‘many’ are used before plural/countable nouns (things we can
pronunciation of some of these quantifiers: Italian students tend to count).
lengthen short vowels (e.g., ‘lot’ might become ‘loot’. They also tend 3. In the pronunciation stage, practice the short vowel sounds with the
to add an extra vowel at the end of a word (e.g., ‘much’ becomes class through chorusing e.g. (a lot of), until they have mastered the
‘muché’). French students may struggle with producing English words. Focus on negative and question statements with repetition
sentences: With English, one needs to use an auxiliary verb, whereas and emphasis on the auxiliary verb.
in French, one simply just adds a question mark after the sentence. 4. Encourage students to try and only speak in the target language. They
This could become a concern seeing that most quantifiers are used in should for e.g., put up their hand when they don’t know the target
a negative/question form. language word and wants to use their L1 to help better explain
4. It could be expected that young learners tend to revert to their L1 something.
when trying to communicate or explain something to others.
Target language analysis:
1. What is the use or function of this Quantifiers are words that are used in a sentence to express the amount or quantity of a noun in a
language? (include a timeline if sentence. For example, “I had too much to eat” or “We bought a lot of bread“.
appropriate) Although one can almost hear which quantifier sounds a bit ‘strange’ in a sentence, and which ones
sounds more suitable; there are some underlying rules applicable: It is important to use a quantifier
before a countable noun. However, the quantifier ‘much’ is used before uncountable nouns. Both ‘much’
and ‘many’ can be substituted with ‘a lot of’ or ‘lots of’.
UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS COUNTABLE NOUNS
MUCH MANY
Food A LOT OF Apples
Water (LOTS OF) Onions
Sugar Potatoes
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