Lesson Plan Quantifiers
Lesson Plan Quantifiers
Lesson Plan Quantifiers
Main Aims
For students to have the opportunity to revise and clarify the meanings of a set of quantifiers (a little, a lot of, any, enough,
much, plenty of, some, quite a few, only a few, very few, too much/many) through sorting and comparing activities in the
context of food.
Secondary Aims
For students to have the opportunity of speaking practice, specifically negotiating outcomes.
For students to revise countable and uncountable nouns, specifically food lexis
For students to have practice of listening for detail
Warmer 5 minutes
To activate T-Ss ‘What do you normally eat everyday? Is it healthy?’
schemata S-S Ss discuss in pairs
1
To check/explore T-Ss ‘Fill in the table with countable and uncountable nouns from the text.’ Handout 2
the meaning of S Ss complete the table
target language S-S Allow time for Ss to check their answers before class feedback
To highlight the T-Ss Ss write their answers on the whiteboard and T checks
different
implications when T-Ss ‘Now fill in this table with the quantifiers from the box.’
choosing S Ss complete the table
quantifiers S-S Allow time for Ss to check their answers before class feedback
T-Ss Ss write their answers on the whiteboard and T checks
T-Ss ‘Read the sentences and decide, what are the differences in meaning between
each two or three sentences?’
S Ss read for a minute.
S-S ‘Now discuss your ideas with your partner.’
2
Drilling 5 minutes
To demonstrate T-Ss Write only a few drinks on the board and stick up three glasses.
and practise the Elicit the intrusion and weak a and write it on the board.
use of weak forms Wipe off the writing but leave the picture.
and connected Drill only a few drinks highlighting connected speech and the weak a
speech in target
language Stick up five glasses and drill quite a few drinks
To reinforce the Stick up six glasses and drill a number of drinks
notions of amount Stick up ten glasses and drill a lot of drinks
through images Stick up a picture of a person and ten glasses and drill plenty of drinks
Whilst drilling refer back to the previous images to repeatedly drill the other
quantifiers and speed up. This increases the need for the weak forms and connected
speech to be used and makes the activity fun.
3
Homework Announce and handout homework to check tomorrow.
To provide further
controlled practice
to contrast
meaning