Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Guess Mai's Sunday hobby
a) Aims
- Ss activate prior knowledge of hobby vocabulary (gardening, collect, model, creative, patient, hobby).
- Ss notice that habits are described with a verb form that changes with the subject.
b) Content
- Ss look at pictures of a boat, a stamp album, a plant pot, a puzzle and a model car, and match each picture with a hobby word from the list (gardening, collect, model, hobby, creative, patient).
- T asks: What does Mai do every Sunday? Ss guess, using the picture of a small boat.
- T writes the sentence Mai makes small boats every Sunday on the board and asks Ss to notice the verb makes.
c) Expected outcomes
- Ss match at least four pictures with hobby words, for example: a boat with model, a stamp album with collect.
- Ss' guess: Mai makes small boats every Sunday.
- Ss notice that the verb ends in -s because Mai is a singular subject and the action is repeated every week.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the pictures and the list of hobby words. T says: Look at the pictures and match them with the words. Then guess what Mai does every Sunday.
Students
Ss look at the pictures and the words quietly for 30 seconds.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T monitors and gives hints such as: Which hobby needs glue and paper?
Students
Ss work in pairs, match the pictures with the words and discuss their guesses. Expected answer: 'Mai makes small boats every Sunday.' or 'Mai makes models.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites one or two pairs to share their matches and guesses, then writes the correct sentence on the board.
Students
Representative pairs report: 'The boat is a model. Mai makes small boats every Sunday.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T says: Today we will learn the present simple to talk about habits. Look at makes. We will study how to use it correctly.
Students
Ss copy the title Present simple into their notebooks.