ESL lesson plan | B2 | Correcting common grammar mistakes

Summary

This ESL lesson for B2 English students focuses on identifying and correcting common grammar mistakes, particularly related to pronoun usage and double negatives. Students will watch a humorous video to spot grammatical errors in a conversational context. The lesson includes a variety of activities to practice correcting these mistakes and to expand vocabulary related to grammar and communication. Through discussions and interactive exercises, students will enhance their understanding and practical application of correct English grammar in everyday conversations.

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Activities

A warm-up discussion where students share common grammar mistakes they hear or make, and discuss the importance of grammatical accuracy.
A listening comprehension task where students watch a video and fill in the blanks with the exact words they hear, focusing on the grammar points discussed.
A vocabulary matching exercise for key terms from the video, such as assure, confused, recognize, numerous, preposition, and participle.
A grammar focus section and practice exercises on distinguishing between subject and object pronouns (e.g., "she and I" vs. "her and me").
An idiom practice focusing on color-related idioms, like see red and feel blue.
Vocabulary in context exercises to reinforce the understanding and usage of new words.
Grammar practice involving rewriting sentences to correct errors related to subject and object pronouns.
A speaking practice session where students discuss their most challenging grammar rules and the importance of grammar in various real-life situations.

0:00 [Music]

0:11 good morning Mr lapit I am Colonel Hans

0:14 Landa of the SS I was hoping you could

0:16 invite me inside your home and we could

0:18 have a discussion of course please come

0:23 in now as you may have heard I am in

0:27 charge of rounding up all the Jews in

0:29 this Village yes I have heard that are

0:32 you aware of any Jews hiding in the

0:34 area no no I I assure you there haven't

0:37 been no Jews in this Village there

0:40 haven't been no Jews so there have been

0:43 some Jews oh uh sorry no I meant uh

0:47 there haven't been any juice no juice

0:50 here sorry I was confused by a double

0:53 negative you see Grandma's very

0:55 important to the Nazi

1:02 party now I you familiar with one

1:02 shashana

1:04 D yes I know

1:07 her me and her buy our milk at the same

1:10 Market me and her surely you meant to

1:14 say she and I

1:16 no yes of

1:18 course the trick is to take the other

1:21 person out of the sentence to see if it

1:24 makes

1:25 sense Me by milk I think not I I buy

1:30 milk you see I swear I do not know where

1:33 m isus is

1:36 at did you just end a sentence with a

1:39 preposition forgive me Colonel when was

1:42 the last time you saw the JW

1:44 dfus about a month ago I was walking by

1:48 the river Pon and I saw dfus fishing so

1:51 I went down to the river bank to see if

1:55 it was her but I couldn't get a confused

2:02 did you really think I was so stupid I

2:04 wouldn't recognize a runon sentence

2:07 sorry there was no Jews here Jew or Jews

2:11 plural plural wrong you have to match

2:15 your subject with your verb what do you

2:17 want from

2:18 me I've heard from numerous sources you

2:21 are hiding

2:23 madus from

2:26 who from whom

2:33 don't kill me

2:36 please Mita I have one more question for

2:39 you if you answer correctly I will leave

2:41 you and your family at peace if not you

2:45 are coming with

2:47 me now let's say you were writing a

2:51 list would you or would you not put a

2:54 Karma before the end it depends on

2:57 whether you are following the Chicago

2:58 Manual of style or the Associated Press

3:01 guide hiding under the floorboards I

3:04 have finally found you

3:07 wait you are hiding under the

3:09 floorboards or is she a dangling

3:12 participle a dangling participle

3:16 [Music]

Vocabulary focus

The vocabulary section introduces terms encountered in the video, such as assure, confused, recognize, numerous, preposition, and participle. Students will practice these words through matching and fill-in-the-blank exercises to improve their lexical range.

Grammar focus

This lesson primarily focuses on distinguishing between subject pronouns (e.g., I, she, he, we, they) and object pronouns (e.g., me, her, him, us, them), addressing common errors like using "me and her" instead of "she and I." It also implicitly touches upon double negatives and run-on sentences as featured in the video. Students will learn the rules for correct pronoun case and practice applying them in various contexts.