One-Month Lesson Plan (Beginner Level)
Lesson 1: Personal Information
**Lesson Goal**: Teach "to be" and basic introductions.
**Topic**: Personal information (name, age, nationality).
**Materials**: Printed handouts, flashcards with names/countries, a simple dialogue script.
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Play a "name chain" game: Each student says their name and something they like.
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach the verb "to be" (affirmative, negative, questions).
- Practice: Fill-in-the-blank sentences ("I ___ from Uzbekistan"). Pair activity: Students
ask/answer ("Are you from...?").
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Introduce countries and nationalities using flashcards.
- Practice: Match the country to its nationality (e.g., Spain -> Spanish).
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Role-play introductions: "Hi, I'm Ali. I'm 20 years old. I'm from Uzbekistan."
- **Listening**: Play a recording of a similar introduction (e.g., from a coursebook or
YouTube). Students complete a gap-fill.
- **Writing**: Students write 5 sentences about themselves using "to be."
- **Reading**: Provide a short text ("Anna is from Italy..."). Ask comprehension questions.
Lesson 2: Family and Friends
**Lesson Goal**: Teach possessive adjectives and vocabulary for family.
**Topic**: Talking about family and relationships.
**Materials**: Family tree handout, picture prompts.
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Students name 2-3 family members in their native language and translate them to English.
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, etc.).
- Practice: Fill-in-the-blank exercise ("This is ___ mother.").
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Introduce family vocabulary using a family tree (e.g., mother, father, cousin).
- Practice: Students describe their own family tree.
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Pair activity: Describe your family to a partner.
- **Listening**: Listen to a recording of someone describing their family. Students answer
comprehension questions.
- **Writing**: Write 5 sentences about a family member using possessive adjectives.
- **Reading**: Read a short paragraph about a family. Answer true/false questions.
Lesson 4: Telling the Time
**Lesson Goal**: Teach how to tell the time and use it in sentences.
**Topic**: Talking about schedules and routines.
**Materials**: Clock visuals, printed schedules, and dialogues.
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Play a quick guessing game: Teacher says a time, students point to it on a clock visual.
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach how to say the time (e.g., "It’s 3 o’clock," "It’s half past 5").
- Practice: Students take turns asking/answering "What time is it?"
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Introduce time-related expressions: "in the morning," "at night," "half past," "quarter to."
- Practice: Students match clock visuals to the correct sentences.
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Role-play: Students ask about and discuss a schedule (e.g., school timetable).
- **Listening**: Listen to a recording of a daily schedule and fill in missing times.
- **Writing**: Write sentences describing their typical schedule.
- **Reading**: Read a timetable and answer questions about it.
Lesson 5: Talking About Hobbies
**Lesson Goal**: Teach Present Simple for hobbies and free-time activities.
**Topic**: Describing hobbies and preferences.
**Materials**: Hobby flashcards, dialogue examples, and short texts.
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Quick activity: Students name hobbies they know in English.
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach Present Simple for likes/dislikes: "I like reading," "She doesn’t like dancing."
- Practice: Students make sentences about hobbies. Pair work: "Do you like ___?"
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Introduce common hobbies: reading, playing football, watching TV, etc.
- Practice: Match pictures to hobbies.
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Students share hobbies and ask classmates about theirs.
- **Listening**: Listen to a conversation about hobbies. Answer comprehension questions.
- **Writing**: Write 5-7 sentences about their favorite hobby.
- **Reading**: Read a short paragraph about someone’s hobbies. Identify details.
Lesson 6: Describing People
**Lesson Goal**: Teach adjectives for physical description and the verb "to be."
**Topic**: Describing people’s appearance.
**Materials**: Picture prompts, physical description flashcards.
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Show pictures of different people. Students describe them (e.g., "She has brown hair").
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach adjectives for describing appearance: tall, short, young, old, etc.
- Practice: Students complete sentences about people’s appearance ("He is ___").
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Introduce new adjectives for appearance: big, small, long, short, etc.
- Practice: Match adjectives to pictures.
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Pair work: Students describe a person to a partner.
- **Listening**: Listen to a description and guess who it is.
- **Writing**: Write a description of a friend or family member.
- **Reading**: Read a short paragraph describing a famous person. Answer comprehension
questions.
Lesson 7: Places Around Town
**Lesson Goal**: Teach vocabulary related to places in town and prepositions of place.
**Topic**: Talking about locations and places.
**Materials**: Maps, flashcards of places, and preposition chart.
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Quick activity: Students point to different places around a town map and name them.
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach prepositions of place (in, on, next to, behind).
- Practice: Students ask and answer questions about places ("Where is the bank? It’s next to
the supermarket.").
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Introduce vocabulary for places in town: bank, school, restaurant, hospital, etc.
- Practice: Students match places to descriptions.
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Role-play: Asking for directions around town.
- **Listening**: Listen to a conversation about places and answer questions.
- **Writing**: Write directions from one place to another in town.
- **Reading**: Read a short paragraph describing a town and answer comprehension
questions.
Lesson 8: Simple Present Questions
**Lesson Goal**: Teach how to form questions in the Present Simple tense.
**Topic**: Asking and answering questions about daily life.
**Materials**: Flashcards, question word chart (who, what, where, when, how).
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Quick review of Present Simple using flashcards. Students ask and answer simple
questions.
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach how to form Present Simple questions (Do you ___? / Does he ___?).
- Practice: Students create questions and ask their partners (e.g., "Do you play sports?").
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Review vocabulary from previous lessons (e.g., hobbies, places, daily routines).
- Practice: Students use vocabulary to form questions.
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Pair work: Ask and answer questions about daily routines and hobbies.
- **Listening**: Listen to a conversation with Present Simple questions and answer
comprehension questions.
- **Writing**: Write 5 questions about their daily life or a friend's life.
- **Reading**: Read a short text with questions. Answer questions about the text.
Lesson 9: Food and Drink
**Lesson Goal**: Teach vocabulary related to food and drink, and use the verb “like” in the
context of preferences.
**Topic**: Talking about food preferences.
**Materials**: Food flashcards, a menu handout.
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Quick activity: Show pictures of different foods and ask students to name them.
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach "like" for food preferences (e.g., "I like pizza," "He doesn’t like soup").
- Practice: Fill-in-the-blank exercise ("She likes ___").
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Introduce common food items: pizza, soup, salad, sandwich, etc.
- Practice: Match foods to pictures.
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Pair work: Discuss food preferences (e.g., "Do you like pizza?" "Yes, I do.").
- **Listening**: Listen to a conversation in a restaurant and answer questions.
- **Writing**: Write 5 sentences about their favorite foods.
- **Reading**: Read a short restaurant menu and answer questions.
Lesson 10: The Weather
**Lesson Goal**: Teach vocabulary for weather and how to talk about the weather.
**Topic**: Discussing the weather.
**Materials**: Weather flashcards, weather forecast video.
**1. Warm-up (10 mins)**:
- Quick discussion: "What’s the weather like today?"
**2. Grammar Focus (30 mins)**:
- Teach vocabulary related to weather (sunny, rainy, cold, hot, etc.) and simple sentences for
talking about the weather.
- Practice: Students complete sentences ("It’s ___ today").
**3. Vocabulary + Topic (20 mins)**:
- Introduce vocabulary for different weather conditions: windy, snowy, cloudy, etc.
- Practice: Match weather pictures to words.
**4. Skills Practice (40 mins)**:
- **Speaking**: Students talk about the weather in different cities or countries.
- **Listening**: Listen to a weather forecast and complete a gap-fill.
- **Writing**: Write about the weather in their town for a week.
- **Reading**: Read a short weather forecast and answer questions.
