The Present Continuous – Lesson Plan for Young Learners: A Comprehensive Free English Lesson Plan (Online and In-Class) with online Videos and Games
The Present Continuous – Lesson Plan Young Learners
Whether you’re an educator seeking engaging materials for your online or in-class lessons, we have you covered. This free English lesson plan includes a variety of videos and games to create a fun and interactive learning experience for your students.
Young learners thrive when learning is both educational and enjoyable. That’s why this lesson plan combines language acquisition with playfulness, helping children develop their English skills. From vocabulary building to listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, our lesson plan covers it all.
Lesson Plan Young Learners
Objective:
The objective of the Weather and the Present Tense lesson plan for young learners is to provide an engaging and educational experience that introduces and explores the present continuous.
Time: 60-120 minutes
Materials
- Digital whiteboard software: Videos and Games
Warm up
Game: Crocodile verbs
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Encourage students to write answers in full sentences.
Activity 1
Show the Powerpoint and introduce the topic: Present continuous.
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Activity 2
Game: Racing verbs
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Simple game, play as a class
Breaktime Activity
‘What am I doing?’
Pick a student. Ask them ‘What am I doing?’ and get them to answer, then ask ‘What are you doing?’
Extra: ‘What is he doing?’
Activity 3
Videos: Present continuous
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Activity 4
Listening Comprehension
Listen to material and then get students to number each student.
If you are reading aloud, emphasise -ing sound
Activity 5
Game: Verbs vocabulary
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Simple game, play as a class
Activity 6
Disappearing Words
Show the Powerpoint and play the game
In this simple activity, students are shown a word, phrase or sentence that disappears in 2 seconds! They need to remember what they saw and write them down on a
mini-whiteboard or paper. The fastest team to show the correct answer wins the round.
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Activity 7
What are they doing?
Show the Powerpoint and play the game the hidden picture game.
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Activity 8
Game Reveal – Is/Are
Show the Powerpoint and simple ‘click the image’ game
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Wrap up
Jeopardy
Show the Powerpoint and play the Jeopardy game