Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
Annamique Tyler 15 November 2021 Pre-Intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Grammar
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Lesson Topic:
Giving Advice (Should and Shouldn’t)
Lesson Aims:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to…
Use modal verb should and shouldn’t to give advice in a
positive or negative way.
Example sentence:
1. You should brush your teeth everyday. (Positive advice)
2. She shouldn’t watch violent TV shows. (Negative advice)
Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will have…
Expanded their ability to give positive and negative advice
using modal verb should and shouldn’t.
Talked in pairs and gave each other advice on different
aspects such as health.
Practiced the accuracy and fluency of using should and
shouldn’t for giving advice by playing games such as the
spinning wheel where a student goes up to the interactive
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.
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Anticipated difficulties:
1. Topic related difficulties
Young learners at the age of 11 and 12 may lack
interest in the topic and find grammar boring.
2. Language related difficulties
Students are all from different countries (Russia,
France and Italy ) with different languages hence their
first language might have different grammatical rules
to English and this may confuse the student, such as in
French it is common and acceptable to use a double
negative yet in English it is considered to be slang.
The presence of multiple languages in the classroom
may lead to a lot of confusion among the students.
3. Cultural differences.
Cultural differences may cause confusion and
misunderstandings as learners may have problems
communicating with each other and this may put
learning at risk during a lesson.
4. Class management difficulties
Some of the students might be at the International
Summer school because of the decision made by their
Suggested solutions:
1. Make the lesson interesting by incorporating a lot of fun games
and level appropriate charts that explain grammar in a clear
,highly visual way so the students can readily understand and
be engaged .
2. Incorporate learning activities that help learners to process the
correct and relevant grammatical forms and these activities
need to take into account the degree of similarity between the
target L2 and first language.
A 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 lesson. This will reduce chances of confusion
during lesson and as a bonus reinforce the use of English.
3. Create a physical environment that affirms differences, an
emotionally positive classroom climate, this type of setting
enables learners to feel worthwhile and cared for despite their
cultural differences let them relax and focus on learning.
Promote positive peer to peer interactions among students
and maintain high expectations for all students.
4. Closely monitor the students and give leadership roles to the
ones that seem to lack attention such as being the leader of a
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parents not because of their own volition and this may
lead to lack of attention that may disrupt the class.
group or in charge of distributing and collecting worksheets
from students, this might motivate the learner to pay more
attention and be less disruptive during the lesson.
Target language analysis:
1. What is the use or function of this
language? (include a timeline if
appropriate)
The modal verb should and shouldn’t are used to give advice to someone. Should is used
to give positive advice (affirmative form).
Example:
Mark: I have a toothache.
Jane: You should see a dentist.
(Jane is advising Mark to go and see a dentist for his toothache. )
Shouldn’t is used to give advice in a negative form. [Show Less]