Lesson planning: the PPP lesson model

A. Complete this lesson plan with the activities in the lesson you have just taken part in:

Lesson topic: Daily routine

Learners will be able to understand vocabulary for daily routine activities, ask and
Objective: answer questions about each other’s daily routine and describe their own and
someone else’ daily routine

Vocabulary: phrases for daily routine (wake up, get up, get dressed, have
Details of breakfast, leave the house, start lessons, have a break, do sport, arrive home, do
language: my homework, have my dinner, go to bed)
Grammar: present simple verb forms, including third person singular

Stage Activity

Warm up

Presentation 1

(vocabulary)

Practice 1

(vocabulary)

Presentation 2

(grammar)

Practice 2

(grammar)

Production

Review

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B. Match these stages to the stage aims:

Stage Stage aim

A. The students practice the new language in a freer way, which may include using their
own ideas. This helps to make the language meaningful to the students.
Warm up
During this stage the teacher does not have to correct all errors – only the ones that
prevent communication taking place.

B. The students practice the new language in a controlled exercise.

Presentation
During this stage the teacher will usually correct all errors.

C. The teacher checks what the students have learned.

Practice
At this stage the teacher can pick up on errors made during the production stage.

D. The students do an activity to get them ready to study the subject.

Production This may include revision of what they did last lesson, especially if that knowledge is
needed for this lesson.

E. The teacher presents the new vocabulary or grammatical structure.

Review
At this stage the teacher should correct errors.

C. The trainer will give you a set of cards. Reconstruct two lessons with them.

D. In your group choose one of these language structures:

1. There is/are
2. The present continuous tense
3. The first conditional
4. The second conditional
5. Comparative and superlative adjectives
6. Your own choice of language structure
Plan a lesson to teach your structure, using the PPP lesson model.
Draw a picture or pictures to help you present it.
You are going to:
- make a plan for the whole lesson and present your lesson structure (outlining the activities)
- demonstrate how to present the structure, using your picture.
(You do not have to teach the whole lesson.)
Review your lesson:
- Did it have enough stages to help the students understand and use the language taught?
- Did your picture(s) help the students to understand the use of the language?
- If you were doing it again, what would you change?