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Texas Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks
for ABE ASE and ESL Learners

esl LESSON PLANS

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Texas Adult Education Standards
Lesson Plan

Before you begin

Title: Tell Me about Last Sunday

Setting: ESL

NRS Level(s):

Level 2: Low Beginning
Level 3: High Beginning

Open entry/exit: No

Context: Community

Standard(s): Speak So Others Can Understand

Benchmark(s): 1.2, 1.3

Objective: To narrate personal activities using verbs in the past tense

Materials: Sentence generator

Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 20 minutes

Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: 1 to 2 hours

The Lesson Plan

Introduce the lesson:
The teacher will model descriptive narration about activities performed the previous weekend using past tense verbs and adverbs.

Teach the lesson:
Pair students so one describes to the other what she or he did the previous weekend.

Practice the lesson:
Students will change partners to practice and acquire different vocabulary. The teacher will monitor, annotate, and clarify past tense verbs while students are exchanging experiences.

Assess the lesson:
The teacher will ask each student to narrate one experience without using a previous sentence or response used by another peer. The teacher will post responses. The students will also mimic using a cell phone to describe weekend experiences using as much descriptive vocabulary as possible. (Using a cell phone omits gestures as a form of communication.)

Apply the lesson to the real world:
The students will be able to communicate to others about things they have done in the past.

Submitted by: Renee Aguirre and Paul C. Carrillo

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