Texas
Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks
for ABE ASE and ESL Learners
Lesson Plan Bank
esl LESSON PLANS
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
