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TESOL LP Bonus: One Week Lesson Plan

Weekly Objectives:

  • Students will be able to express likes and dislikes
  • Students will be able to use and conjugate infinitive and -ing verbs

🟩 Monday

Objective:

How to express opinions using: Love, Like, Dislike, Hate.
Introduce “favorite” and informal expressions of indifference (e.g., “It’s okay”).

Warm-up & Discussion:

Discuss different types of food and restaurants.

Instruction:

Introduce the love-to-hate scale and how to describe favorites and least favorites.

Modeling:

Demonstrate how to rank food preferences using personal and peer examples.
Introduce the colloquial phrase: “It’s okay.”

Guided Practice:

Activity: Plan a party. Students ask peers their favorite and least favorite foods.

Independent Practice:

Broken Sentences Game: Students match sentence halves (e.g., “I like / sushi.”)

Assessment:

Fill-in-the-blank worksheet using vocabulary and sentence patterns from the lesson.

Homework:
None assigned.


🟩 Tuesday

Objective:

Use of -ing and infinitive verbs to talk about what students like to do.

Warm-up & Discussion:

Differentiate between liking objects vs liking actions.

Instruction:

Teach rules and examples for using -ing vs infinitive (e.g., “I like dancing” vs “I like to dance”).

Modeling:

Practice basic verb conjugation with examples.

Guided Practice:

Matching Game: Pair verbs with nouns or other verbs, followed by dialog substitution.

Independent Practice:

Interviews: Ask classmates what they like using infinitives, then repeat using -ing.

Assessment:

Compile interview results into a class chart.

Homework:
Write a short paragraph about what you like to do.


🟩 Wednesday

Objective:

Asking and answering questions using “Who with?” and “Where?”

Warm-up & Discussion:

Story prompt: A lonely person wants to make friends—what should they do?

Instruction:

Teach grammar for “who with” and “where” questions.

Modeling:

Create a sample chart:

  • Activity (e.g., reading)
  • Who with (e.g., my sister)
  • Where (e.g., the park)

Guided Practice:

Students complete a similar chart by interviewing classmates.

Independent Practice:

Complete a worksheet to describe their own favorite activities using the “who” and “where” format.

Assessment:

Students compare their charts in pairs or small groups.

Homework:
Create a list of related interview questions.


🟩 Thursday

Objective:

Using “When” to talk about daily and weekly routines.

Warm-up & Discussion:

Talk about personal schedules. Connect with previous day’s activity.

Instruction:

Introduce vocabulary for time and frequency (daily, weekly, etc.)

Modeling:

Draw a sample schedule for a day/week.

Guided Practice:

Frankenstein Schedule Activity:
Each student contributes one activity with a day and time. Combine into one full schedule and discuss.

Independent Practice:

Play a Daily Routine Board Game to practice “when” questions and answers.

Assessment:

Students write a short paragraph about their weekly routine.

Homework:
Write a short summary of a hobby from an article.


🟩 Friday

Objective:

Review day – Focus on hobbies and integrating learned grammar.

Warm-up & Discussion:

Show pictures of hobbies and survey students about likes/dislikes.

Instruction & Modeling:

Discuss how to say what you like/dislike doing using correct verb forms.
Explain slang/cultural expressions about hobbies.

Guided Practice:

Fill-in-the-blank exercises mixing formal and informal ways to ask about hobbies.

Independent Practice:

Distribute a questionnaire for students to complete and use to interview others.

Assessment:

  • Interview classmates
  • Write a short essay about class findings
  • As a class, recreate the survey results on the board

Homework:
Review all topics from the week.

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