Spring is coming

A2 (Pre-Intermediate) Grammar Vocabulary Teens

The lesson is designed to teach English. The theme is centered around the spring season, and it incorporates various activities and tasks to help students improve their vocabulary, grammar, and overall language skills. The materials focus on engaging students with topics related to spring.

Overview: 

  • Spring Vocabulary: The lesson starts by asking students to name five words related to spring, activating their prior knowledge and introducing key vocabulary.

  • Identifying Preferred Spring Activities: Students are presented with a list of activities (e.g., having a picnic, buying ice cream) and asked to identify which ones they like or dislike, and explain their choices. This encourages personal engagement and conversational practice.

  • Applying Activity Vocabulary: Students read comments from people and suggest spring activities for them, using vocabulary from the previous task. This reinforces vocabulary in context.

  • Grammar Focus: Present Simple, Continuous, and Perfect: The lesson provides a grammar review of the present simple, present continuous, and present perfect tenses. It includes explanations, examples, and sentence-building exercises.

  • Sentence Completion with Correct Verb Tenses: Students complete sentences using the correct verb tense (present simple, continuous, or perfect) based on the context.

  • Photo Description with Negative Sentences: Students practice using the target verb tenses by describing photos with negative sentences.

  • Photo Description with Time Expressions: Students describe photos using the correct tense, incorporating time expressions like "every spring," "since," "this week," etc.

  • Question Formation and Answering: Students create questions using the present simple, continuous, or perfect tenses, and then answer them.

  • Idiom Introduction: The lesson introduces common English idioms related to spring (e.g., "a black sheep," "a spring clean"). Students are asked to guess their meanings.

  • Idiom Matching: Students match the idioms with their correct definitions.

  • Idiom Usage in Sentences: Students choose the correct idiom to complete sentences.

  • Idiom Comprehension and Application: The lesson concludes with questions that require students to understand and apply the idioms in a conversational context.


  • April 19, 2025