Lesson Plan: Making Suggestions
Level: 5th grade (low English proficiency)
Duration: 40-50 minutes
Main Aim:
Students will practice making and responding to suggestions using set phrases in a controlled
and semi-free speaking activity.
Subsidiary Aims:
Improve students' confidence in speaking.
Develop listening skills to understand and respond appropriately.
Reinforce pronunciation and intonation in spoken English.
Assumptions:
Students understand basic activities (e.g., playing football, going to the park).
They need structured support to use full sentences when speaking.
Materials:
Picture flashcards of different activities (sports, dancing, reading, etc.).
A dialogue worksheet with gaps.
Small whiteboards or sticky notes for brainstorming.
A simple role-play template.
Lesson Stages
1. Warm-up (5 minutes) - Activating Interest
T-S Interaction: Show pictures of activities (e.g., a person playing football, a group dancing, a
boy reading).
Ask: "What is he/she doing?" (Students say, "playing football," "dancing," etc.).
Ask: "What can we do together?" and gesture toward a group setting.
Introduce the lesson goal: "Today, we will learn how to make suggestions to our friends!"
2. Vocabulary & Target Phrases (10 minutes) - Guided Practice
Board work: Write the phrases:
✅ "Why don’t you come along?"
✅ "Why not!"
✅ "Why not come and dance?"
✅ "But I don’t play an instrument."
✅ "That doesn’t matter."
✅ "OK!"
1. Drill pronunciation of each phrase with gestures.
2. Model an example:
o Teacher: "Let’s play football!"
o Student: "But I don’t play football."
o Teacher: "That doesn’t matter! I can teach you!"
3. Student practice: Call on pairs to repeat similar exchanges.
3. Controlled Practice (15 minutes) - Pair Work
Activity: Find a Plan
1. Put students in pairs.
2. Give each pair a flashcard of an activity (e.g., "play basketball," "sing karaoke").
3. They must make a suggestion using the key phrases.
4. Example exchange:
S1: "Let’s play basketball!"
S2: "But I don’t play basketball."
S1: "That doesn’t matter! I can teach you!"
S2: "OK, why not!"
Monitor & Support: Walk around, correct errors gently, and encourage full responses.
4. Freer Practice (10 minutes) - Role-play Game
Activity: Weekend Plans Game
1. Write "What should we do this weekend?" on the board.
2. Students move around the classroom asking each other and suggesting activities
using the target phrases.
3. Example:
S1: "Let’s go to the park!"
S2: "OK, why not!" (They write their names together as a pair).
4. Students try to make three different plans with different classmates.
5. At the end, students report their plans to the class:
"On Saturday, I will go to the park with [Student Name]."
5. Cool Down (5 minutes) - Quick Review
Ask:
o "What do you say when you want to invite a friend?"
o "How do you say no politely?"
o "What do you say if your friend can’t play an instr
