Lesson Plan of Prepositions (Since, For) English Grade VII

Lesson Plan of Prepositions (Since, For)

English Grade VII

Students’ Learning Outcomes

·         Illustrate use of since and for.

Information for Teacher

·         Prepositions are words or group of words that illustrate the relationship among noun or pronoun and new word in the sentence.

·         Preposition tells the position of a noun.

·         Preposition of Time( Since , for):

·         We use for when measure time (Second, Minutes, Hours, Days, Months and Years). such as :

1.       Ali and Umar have been living in same home for several years.

2.       I am going away for the weekend.

3.       I have known Ayesha for ten years.

4.       I have been Hungary for hours.

5.       She’s had a cold for a week.

·         We use since with a specific date or time. such as:

1.        She is sitting in the waiting room since two-thirty.

2.       It has been raining since I arrived.

3.       I‘ve known Ali since 2013.

4.       I‘ve liked chocolate since my childhood.

5.       She’s been here since two PM.

Concept Map

Material / Resources

Charts, marker, duster, textbook

Worm up Activity

·         Make the students recall the concepts of prepositions through brainstorming.

·         Tell them the difference between for and since.

·         Give them appropriate examples for each of the preposition.

Development

Activity 1

·         Write the following sentences on the board with blank option.

·         ask the students to fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions of time (since, for)

1.       It has been raining ______ morning.

2.       We have worked here _______ 10 years.

3.       They rehearsed for the concert _______ a week.

4.     We  have been planning this trip __________ January.

·         Give them 5 minutes for this activity and then write the answers on the board.

·         Ask the students to check their own work.

Answer key:

1.        Since,        2. For,       3. for, since

Activity 2

·         Ask the students about the daily activities they used to do in the school. (Playing, reading, writing, chatting etc.)

·         Ask them to make 5 sentences each from the prepositions ‘for’ and ‘since’ by keeping in mind the school situation. (Playing since, chatting for, etc.)

·         Ask the students to exchange their notebooks with their classmates for checking.

Sum up / Conclusion

·         Conclude the lesson by repeating the concept of prepositions.

·         Again explain the difference between ‘for’ and ‘since’ which will help them to remember this difference.

Assessment

·         At the end of the class, ask different students to come up and explain the concept of the prepositions, they just read.

Follow up

·         Ask the students to write some sentences using ‘since’ and ‘for’.