Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
Saravan Chetty 6June 2022 Pre-Intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Grammar
Lesson Topic:
Giving Advice(Should and Shouldn’t)
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…
to give advice in a positive or negative way using modal verbs, 1. been introduced and exposed to the target grammar should
should and shouldn’t and shouldn’t
2. learnt to give advice on health problems.
3. Expanded their ability to give positive and negative advice
Example sentence: using modal verb should and shouldn’t.
1. Firstly a POSITIVE advice would be: 4. practiced the accuracy and fluency of using should and
You should brush your teeth everyday whilst shouldn’t for giving advice by playing games such as
2. A NEGATIVE advice would be: spinning wheel where a student goes up to the interactive
You shouldn’t watch violent TV shows. board and clicks to spin the wheel on which a problematic
sentence is displayed and reads the sentence aloud, other
students will try to give him or her advice using should and
shouldn’t.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
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,1. Topic Related 1. use a lot of fun games to make the lesson interesting and
Students are sometimes not listening to the topic or talking present appropriate charts that explain grammar in a clear,
and as a results lack interest in the topic and find grammar highly visual way so that the students will become engaged
boring. and their understanding becomes clear.
2. Language: 2. a).tell students they have to ask permission to speak in L1 if
a).One of the most common management issue teachers they really need to.
face is getting students to speak English. However young b).3 word rule- tell students that they can use a maximum
learners may need to speak their mother tongue on of 3 words in L1 if they don’t know them in English.
occasion and a complete ban on L1 is often not the best c). Write English on the board in large letter. Each time
solution. someone speaks in L1, erase a letter. Tell the students
b). Students are from all different countries (Russia, France, that each letter represents time(e.g. 1 minute) to play a
Italy)with different languages hence their first language game or do another fun activity at the end of the lesson.
might have different grammatical rules to English and this If the whole word remains, they can choose a game.
may confuse the student, such as in French it is common d). Incorporate learning activities that help learners to
and acceptable to use a double negative yet in English it is process the correct and relevant grammatical forms and
considered to be a slang. these activities need to take into account the degree
b). The presence of multiple languages in the classroom of similarity between the target L2 and first language. A
may lead to a lot of confusion amongst the students. rule should be put in place at the beginning of the
lesson that forbids the use of any other language other
than the target language during the lesson hence
chances of confusion is reduced during the lesson and
3. Cultural differences: as a bonus reinforce the use of English.
It is only natural that students want to sit with their own 3. a). Create a physical environment that affirms differences
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, friends , but it is important that students learn to work with and emotionally positive classroom climate, this type of
different students with different culture, nationality etc.( setting enables learners to feel worthwhile and cared
Fig A) for despite their cultural differences. Let them relax
and focus on learning.
4.Class management difficulties: b). You can give students an ice breaker activity such as Find
Some of the students might be at the international Summer a friend bingo(FIG B/1) to help students find out more
School because of their parents decision and this may lead about each other
to lack of attention and disruption of the class. i). Prepare a handout with a 3 x 2 grid(FIG B/2)of squares.
In each square, write a phrase that is likely to apply to
at least one of the students e.g. has a birthday in
March,
went on Holiday to US
ii). Give a copy of the handout to each student. Tell them
to ask questions and find a friend who answers yes to
one square in the grid, crossing out the square when
they find someone. They should then move on to a
different friend. The winner is the first person to
cross out all the squares.
4. Monitor the students closely and give leadership roles to
the non attentive students. Let them act as Class
Monitors and allow them to collect worksheets etc. This
will act as a motivation and thus they will pay more
attention and less disruptive.
Target language analysis:
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