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SCHEME OF WORK: TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (UNIT 1)
LESSON 2 (Language Awareness 1)
THEME: Science and Technology
MAIN SKILL(S) FOCUS: Language Awareness
WEEK: __ TOPIC: Let’s Chat CROSS CURRICULAR ELEMENT(S): Information LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Present Simple vs
and Communications Technology Present Progressive / computer-based vocabulary

CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES
See Student’s Book pp 11 for
Main Skill Main Skill Pre-lesson Full Blast Plus 4 a further grammar activity on
Ask questions to pupils (or write questions on the board) to elicit Student’s Book, pp 9- comparisons that can be
This is a This is a grammar- responses using either the Present Simple or Present Continuous. 10 used as extension activity
grammar-focused focused lesson so Ensure pupils have appropriate wait time and/or opportunities to Teacher’s Book, pp 9- with fast finishers and/or
lesson so listening, speaking, discuss their responses with talk partners. Alternatively, play a game 10 homework.
listening, reading and writing which reviews the uses of Present Simple vs Present Progressive or For additional differentiation
speaking, reading skills are not revises stative verbs (see, like, seem, understand, need, believe, strategies, please refer to the
and writing skills explicitly covered. imagine, know) which do not usually take the Progressive form. provided list of differentiation
are not explicitly strategies and select
covered. Lesson delivery appropriate strategy
This lesson focuses on Grammar Present Simple vs Present /strategies based on the
Progressive, and computer-related vocabulary. See the needs of the pupils.
Teacher’s Book for detailed guidance. Note that pupils have
encountered the present simple and present continuous in Form 2
and Form 3. When going through answers explain that ‘understand’
is a stative verb and elicit more examples (see above). These are
verbs that are only used in the present simple. Provide and / or elicit
examples (e.g. ‘Peter hates his new school’ not ‘Peter is hating his
new school’).
To introduce the vocabulary activities either ask pupils to think back
to the reading text about SN Sites and elicit what computer-based
vocabulary they know / remember or play a word game (such as
bingo) practising computer-based vocabulary. Pupils complete
Activities A-C. See the Teacher’s Book for detailed guidance.
Post-lesson
Ask pupils to write six sentences. Three sentence using stative
verbs and three sentences using action verbs in the present
continuous. Ask pupils to make two deliberate mistakes. Pupils
swap sentences and see if they can spot the sentences which are
wrong.

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