PPP Lesson Plan

PPP Lesson Plan

by LUIZA

​Who is it for?

​PPP is simple mathematics for teaching English to beginners. Although it has been developed for adult learners, it suits all age groups especially if you have short lessons.

​A PPP based lesson is simple and straight forward.

​Parts of a PPP lesson

• ​Warm-up

• ​Lead-in

• ​Presentation

• ​Practice

• ​Production

• ​Wrap up

​Warm-up - A whole-group activity that takes at most 5 minutes and is supposed to change the students' brain into English mode. It is also very useful for building group relations and developing rapport. It is not required that it has anything to do with the lesson. Here you are not supposed to teach new language, nor expose students to producing language they are not comfortable with. Instead, this is a time for students to lower their affective filters and connect to the part of their brains where the second language is stored.

​Lead-in

​Lead-in - This is the part of the lesson when you contextualize the new language through a picture, a song, a very short part of a movie, a poem, a short excerpt of a text, or anything that may clearly show the students they are talking about movies, not animals in the zoo. In this part of the lesson, you are supposed to help students identify in their brains what they already know about the subject and also maybe remember vocabulary, structure, or functions that go along with it. Do not teach new language here, instead ask what they can see, or what is their opinion about it.

​PPP

​Presentation - This is when the teacher presents new language. It is the part of the lesson where the teacher focuses on structure.

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Practice - This is when the teacher has students practicing the new language usually in controlled or semi-controlled activities such as filling the gaps, sentence completion, sentence re-order, matching, sentence formation, crosswords.

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Production - This is when the teacher has students communicatively producing the new language usually using authentic language simulating real-life situations. Role-play, surveys, information exchange, find the difference, telling a story around a picture, tell what I see, adding to a pre-written dialogue, answering an email/text message.

​Wrap-up

​Wrap up - This is the end of the lesson when the teacher may recapitulate the content of the class and give feedback to students, ask for feedback from students or do an activity to have students excited to come back to class the next day.

Multiple Choice

The teacher gives the students a survey sheet, has students stand up, walk around asking one another questions to complete the survey. Then, the Teacher, has students tell the class what they found out about their classmates.

• Presentation

• Practice

• Production

Multiple Choice

The teacher draws on the board a stick figure and asks students the name of the figure, students try to find out, the teacher says the name of the figure is John. The teacher draws a speech balloon and writes "my name is john" inside then elicits the question "What's your name?". Teacher elicits John's characteristics and writes on the board "My favorite food is icecream" "I study English on Tuesdays and Thursdays" "On the weekends I go to the beach". Teacher elicits wh- questions.

• Presentation

• Practice

• Production

Multiple Choice

The teacher asks students what their plans for the weekend are. Students are encouraged to talk about the activities they usually do and what they are doing next weekend. The teacher shows a video of two people making plans for the weekend. The teacher asks questions about the video. 

• Presentation

• Lead-in

• Warm-up

Multiple Choice

The teacher asks the students to find the adjectives in the text and put them into good/bad adjectives categories.

• Presentation

• Practice

• Production

Multiple Choice

The teacher has students in pairs, hands out student A a paper where there is information about a person, and student B another paper with prompts for questions. Student B is supposed to make wh question and student A is supposed to answer. When they are finished teacher gives student B a handout with another person's information and student A the prompts they are supposed to use for asking student B questions, student B answers.

• Presentation

• Practice

• Production

Multiple Choice

The teacher has learners in pairs with their backs to each other. The teacher gives them a sheet of paper and a pencil. The students are supposed to describe their bedroom to each other while the other one draws. 

• Presentation

• Practice

• Production

Multiple Choice

The teacher gives out sentence stripes with actions students already know and has them miming them. The teacher then asks one of the students to come back and do the miming again. the teacher asks "What is this?" "Is this now?" "So, he is ... ing?". The teacher does the same with 2 more students. Then shows the form of the present continuous on the board.

• Presentation

• Practice

• Production

Multiple Choice

The teacher gives students A and B a picture of a bedroom but there are missing things on each picture. Students are supposed to ask the question "Where is the...?" and answer "The... is (preposition) the ..." to complete the picture.

• Presentation

• Practice

• Production