Busy Friends
- Sep 19, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 10
This ESL Lesson Plan Busy Friends helps A1 learners practice Present Continuous to talk about daily routines and activities of friends. Through fun activities like acting out, role-plays, and the “Silly Sentences” game, learners explore action words such as cooking, shopping, painting, playing and more.
📄A1 ⏱️50 min 📁22 slides
Outcomes and skills:
practiced speaking and listening by asking and answering “What are you doing?”
improved their reading skills by identifying Present Continuous forms in short texts.
improved writing skills to make sentences and describe pictures.
Vocabulary
cooking
shopping
painting
calling
visiting
sleeping
washing
playing
studying
Lesson plan
Lead-in
Vocabulary
Act it out
Grammar: Present Continuous
Reading
Review
Practice
Yes or No?
Speaking
Writing
Game: Silly sentences