What Are You DoingLSN

EASY GRAMMAR LESSONS
Our lesson plans are designed to help you teach or reinforce a variety of grammar structures. They give students an
opportunity to practice their English by performing different tasks in pairs and small groups. Our lessons are aimed
primarily at lower level students and can be used with children or adults.
Each lesson consists of six activities.
1. A Written Record
This page is designed to help students organize their notes. It will enable them to keep track of all the new vocabulary
and grammar structures they will be using. After you have taught the new material, have your students write the new
words below each image. The new structures can be written in the note space provided.
2. Pair Work
Each lesson includes a pair work activity which gives students an opportunity to practice their English. All of the pair
work activities are controlled tasks; most are information gaps. Students ask questions and provide information to their
partner in order to finish the task.
3. Follow Up
Each pair work activity is followed by a written task to reinforce the new structure. The follow up task includes a series
of questions about the pair work and fill-in-the-blank drills.
4. Listening
A listening task is included in every lesson. The teacher provides information to the students. The students circle the
correct answers or fill in the blanks.
5. Group Activity
Each lesson concludes with a group activity designed to give students a chance to practice the new structure in a less
controlled situation. Group tasks may consist of class surveys, games, or dialogues.
6. Review and Fun

Each lesson plan has one page to use for classroom review or as a homework activity. These review sheets consist of
puzzles, games, word searches, scrambles, and other fun activities.
Teachers Notes
Every document contains a teachers page at the end of the lesson. Some lesson plans come with instructions on how to
introduce and teach the target structure.
Flashcards
Every lesson plan comes with a complete set of flashcards.
If you have questions or suggestions regarding our lessons, write to us at info@esl-library.com.
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What are you doing?
Name:________________________
A WRITTEN RECORD
What are these people doing?
Take notes below.
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What are you doing?
Name:________________________
A PAIR WORK
Find out what everyone is doing. Ask your partner about the missing
information. After youve finished, draw the verb in each box. Draw yourself
in the me box. What are you doing?
Stu Jon Ming Chuck Tomoko Dave
Jay Max Kim Lou Bill (me)
FOLLOW UP
Look at the exercise above and answer the questions below.
1. Whats Jay doing?

___________________________________________________________
2. Whats Jon doing?

___________________________________________________________
3. _________ Kim _____________?

___________________________________________________________
4. What ________ Max and Dave ______________?

___________________________________________________________
5. Is Tomoko sleeping?
___________________________________________________________
6. What are you doing?

___________________________________________________________
What are you doing?
Name:________________________
B PAIR WORK
Find out what everyone is doing. Ask your partner about the missing
information. After youve finished, draw the verb in each box. Draw yourself
in the me box. What are you doing?
Stu Jon Ming Chuck Tomoko Dave
Jay Max Kim Lou Bill (me)
FOLLOW UP
Look at the exercise above and answer the questions below.
1. Whats Jay doing?

___________________________________________________________
2. Whats Jon doing?

___________________________________________________________
3. _________ Kim _____________?

___________________________________________________________
4. What ________ Max and Dave ______________?

___________________________________________________________
5. Is Tomoko sleeping?
___________________________________________________________
6. What are you doing?

___________________________________________________________
What are you doing?
Name:________________________
LISTENING
Listen to your teacher describe what these people are doing. Draw a line from
their names to the correct verbs.
Tom
Sara
Jim
Ali
Sue Meg
BOARD GAME
A. Try this board game. Use a coin to move around the board.
Heads moves one square and tails moves two. When you land on a square, say what they
are doing.
Miss a
turn
Start

Go back Go forward
3 spaces 3 spaces

Go again
Go back
Miss a 3 spaces
The End! turn
What are you doing?
Name:________________________
REVIEW AND FUN
A. Change the verb from present to present progressive.
PRESENT PRESENT PROGRESSIVE PRESENT PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

sleep be sleeping dance
write listen
draw watch
drink sing
eat do
B. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of be.
I _______ watching TV. She ________ playing guitar.
You _________ listening to music. They _________ dancing.
He _________ drawing. We __________ eating.
C. Find 7 verbs from todays lesson in the Word Search below.
e t a h j m l
w a t c h f i
h u t o o i s
i d r i n k t
u f r p h j e
e p l a y k n
d s m f w u p
u d a n c e j
What are you doing?
Name:________________________
Teachers Notes
Aim: to teach students how to use the present continuous, talking about an action in progress.
Students will learn the present progressive with all the personal pronouns, (I you, he, she, we, they.)
New Vocabulary:
listen to music eat lunch drink play guitar

write (a letter) read watch TV dance
sing sleep draw (a picture)
Target Structures:
Whats he doing? Hes drawing,
What are they doing? They are singing?
What are you doing? Im writing.
Tips on introducing or reviewing the structure and vocabulary:
As a warm up, ask one of the students to come up to the front of the class. Show the student a
flashcard with one of the action verbs, and ask them to mime the card. Then ask the other
students what he/she is doing. Have a few different students come up and try different verbs.
You dont have to correct them much at this point. The idea is just to get them thinking about
the present progressive form.
After the students are aware that you are talking about actions in progress, go through the
flashcards, eliciting each verb in the present progressive form. (You may want to review the
simple present form first, if these verbs are quite new to them.
Put all the flashcards up on the board, and write names under each card (Ben, Amy, Pierre,
Kenji, etc) Ask your students what some of them are doing. Whats Ben doing? etc Then
tell them to remember what each person is doing, and turn all the flashcards around or cover
them up so they cant see them.
What are you doing?
Name:________________________
Teachers Notes Continued
Begin asking what some of the people on the cards are doing. If a student answers it correctly
turn the card around to reveal the image. If not, leave it as is. You should also get some
students to try asking other students questions across the class in open pairs, and follow the
same procedure.
After youve gone through all the cards, re-elicit the question and have the students listen and
repeat a few times.
Finally, hand out page 1 to the students so they can begin writing the new language down. Put all
the flashcards the right way on the board, and write the corresponding word under each.
Students should copy the words beneath each image on their sheet. Then re-elicit the target
structures and write them on the board as well. Students should copy them in the note space
provided at the bottom.
Pair Work
Have students work in pairs to complete the information gap. (Give one student sheet A and the
other sheet B.)
Follow Up
When they are finished the pair work, have your students try the follow up activity to review
their writing skills for this structure.
Listening
For this exercise its up to the teacher to decide what each person is doing. Call out an action
for each person and have the students draw a line from the names to the correct verbs. (Jim is
singing a song. etc ) As a follow up, you could ask students what each person is doing, or have
them write sentences in their notebooks. You could also have them draw each person doing
their action.
Board Game (Group Activity)
Put students in groups of 2, 3, or 4. Have them use a coin to determine how many spaces to
move. Heads moves 2, and tails moves 1. When students land on a space they need to say what
the person in the picture is doing. You could also have the other student ask the question each
time. (What is she doing? etc)
What are you doing?
Name:________________________
Teachers Notes Continued
Review and Fun

A. Have students write the present progressive form of each verb.
B. Have students write the correct form of the Be verb.
C. Have students complete the word search.
Word search:
e l
w a t c h i
t s
d r i n k t
r e
p l a y n
d a n c e

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EASY GRAMMAR LESSONS

Each lesson consists of six activities.

6. Review and Fun

If you have questions or suggestions regarding our lessons, write to us at info@esl-library.com.

What are these people doing?

Take notes below.

Stu Jon Ming Chuck Tomoko Dave

Jay Max Kim Lou Bill (me)

Look at the exercise above and answer the questions below.

1. Whats Jay doing?

2. Whats Jon doing?

3. _________ Kim _____________?

4. What ________ Max and Dave ______________?

6. What are you doing?

Stu Jon Ming Chuck Tomoko Dave

Jay Max Kim Lou Bill (me)

Look at the exercise above and answer the questions below.

1. Whats Jay doing?

2. Whats Jon doing?

3. _________ Kim _____________?

4. What ________ Max and Dave ______________?

6. What are you doing?

REVIEW AND FUN

A. Change the verb from present to present progressive.

PRESENT PRESENT PROGRESSIVE PRESENT PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

B. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of be.

I _______ watching TV. She ________ playing guitar.

You _________ listening to music. They _________ dancing.

He _________ drawing. We __________ eating.

C. Find 7 verbs from todays lesson in the Word Search below.

listen to music eat lunch drink play guitar

Whats he doing? Hes drawing,

What are they doing? They are singing?

What are you doing? Im writing.

Tips on introducing or reviewing the structure and vocabulary:

Teachers Notes Continued

Board Game (Group Activity)

Teachers Notes Continued

Review and Fun

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