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Daily Routines

In this lesson, learners are introduced to common daily routine expressions using visual flashcards. The teacher shows flashcards depicting various actions and models pronunciation. Learners engage in several enjoyable activities such as matching activities, pairing images with words or short phrases, which help them enhance their vocabulary and communicative skills.

Travel Time

This lesson uses a Dictogloss activity, a collaborative game, where learners work together to reconstruct a short text after listening to it. Through this fun and interactive process, learners practice producing language while focusing on the use of the simple past and simple future tenses, helping them understand how verb forms connect to their meanings.

Tense it up!

The lesson aims to help learners distinguish and correctly use the Present Continuous, Simple Past, and Simple Future tenses in English through processing instruction. Learners are guided to focus on both form and meaning by first comprehending input rather than producing sentences immediately. Activities are designed to draw learners’ attention to how time references and verb forms indicate ongoing actions, completed events, and future plans. Through structured comprehension tasks, learners develop an accurate understanding of tense usage, which will later support more precise production.

Πάμε Σινεμά!

Το μάθημα στοχεύει να βοηθήσει τους μαθητές/τις μαθήτριες να εξοικειωθούν με την παιδαγωγική διαγλωσσικότητα δηλαδή τη συμπερίληψη της πρώτης τους γλώσσας στη μαθησιακή διαδικασία. Έτσι, μέσω της σύγκρισης πρώτης και δεύτερης γλώσσας αναμένεται να βελτιώσουν τη μορφολογική τους επίγνωσης και να αποκτήσουν γλωσσικές και μεταγλωσσικές δεξιότητες.

Πάμε Σινεμά!

Fruits

In this English lesson, students explore vocabulary related to fruits through creative and interactive activities. Using flashcards, matching games, and a hands-on “My Fruit Salad” task, students learn to recognize, pronounce, and spell new words while connecting English vocabulary with their L1. They practice language through visual aids and peer interaction, strengthening both comprehension and speaking skills. The lesson promotes collaboration, creativity, and active participation, while fostering curiosity about healthy eating and confidence in using English for everyday communication.

A Day at Work: Mary’s Café and Ms. Smith’s Classroom

In this English lesson, students strengthen their listening comprehension, grammar awareness, and collaborative skills through two engaging texts about professions and daily work routines. Using the running dictation technique, learners listen to short narratives, note key information, and reconstruct the texts from memory. This activity focuses on subject–verb agreement, helping students notice and apply correct verb forms in context, including agreement with singular and plural subjects. Through group or pair work, learners practice accuracy, recall, and teamwork while developing strategies for active listening and language retention. By comparing their reconstructed versions with the original texts, students enhance self-correction skills, expand vocabulary related to jobs and workplaces, and build confidence in using English to describe daily professional activities.

Days of Laughs: From Mall Adventures to Birthday Parties

In this English lesson, students strengthen their listening comprehension, grammar awareness, and collaborative skills through two engaging texts about fun activities and daily routines. Using the running dictation technique, learners listen to short narratives, note key information, and reconstruct the texts from memory. This activity focuses on past perfective and imperfective aspects in main clauses, helping students notice and apply correct verb forms to distinguish between completed and ongoing actions in the past. Through group or pair work, learners practice accuracy, recall, and teamwork while developing strategies for active listening and language retention. By comparing their reconstructed versions with the original texts, students enhance self-correction skills, expand vocabulary related to leisure and daily life, and build confidence in using English to describe past experiences and habitual activities.

Everyday Routines

In this English lesson, students develop listening comprehension, note-taking, and text reconstruction skills through two engaging stories about daily routines. Using the dictogloss method, learners actively listen to short narratives, take structured notes with visual support, and collaboratively reconstruct the texts. Through this process, they focus on accuracy, grammar, and the use of reflexive pronouns in meaningful contexts. The combination of auditory, visual, and written activities fosters active engagement and teamwork while promoting language awareness and retention. By comparing their reconstructed versions with the original texts, students enhance self-correction skills, deepen understanding of sentence structure, and build confidence in both spoken and written English.

Music

In this English lesson, students develop vocabulary related to music through the use of flashcards and interactive group activities. The lesson focuses on recognizing and naming musical instruments, as well as using related verbs and expressions in context. By combining visual input with auditory modeling and repetition, learners strengthen word recognition, pronunciation, and memory retention. Through guided guessing, pair and group work, and a team-based flashcard game, students actively engage with the target language in a fun and communicative way. The lesson promotes visual learning, collaboration, and intercultural awareness by encouraging students to share musical terms from their own languages. It fosters motivation, confidence, and autonomous vocabulary learning through meaningful and playful interaction.

My Family is Mine

In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and communicative skills through structured activities focused on possessive determiners and possessive pronouns. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the different forms and functions of possessive determiners and pronouns, as well as their agreement with the noun or context. Through referential and affective activities, students read, match, and choose appropriate forms, and engage in personalized discussions, reinforcing accurate use in meaningful contexts. Pair and group work encourage active engagement, peer correction, self-monitoring, and confidence in expressing ownership and relationships between people and objects.

What We Do (by) Ourselves

In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and collaborative skills through structured activities focused on reflexive pronouns. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the grammatical forms and their agreement with the subject, activating strategies that help convert input into intake. Through referential and affective activities, students read, match, perform, and discuss sentences, reinforcing accurate use of reflexive pronouns in meaningful contexts. Pair and group work promote active engagement, self-monitoring, and confidence in expressing actions performed by or for oneself.

Who Does What

In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and communicative skills through structured activities focused on subject-verb agreement. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the agreement between subjects and verbs, including the singular use of indefinite pronouns (everybody, nobody, someone, etc.), and to identify grammatical and ungrammatical forms. Through referential and affective activities, students listen, read, complete gaps, match subjects with verbs, and evaluate sentence correctness, while also engaging in discussions about their personal experiences and opinions. Pair and group work promote active engagement, peer correction, self-monitoring, and confidence in accurately using subject-verb agreement in meaningful and personalized contexts.

Yesterday and Tomorrow

In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and communicative skills through structured activities focused on Simple Past and Simple Future Tenses. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the differences in form and meaning, including how different verb forms indicate actions in the past, present, or future. Through referential and affective activities, students read, listen, categorize verbs according to time, and discuss their own routines and plans, while also comparing answers with classmates. Pair and group work promote active engagement, peer correction, self-monitoring, and confidence in accurately expressing events that have occurred or will occur, reinforcing meaningful understanding of English tense usage.

Musical Instruments

In this English lesson, students explore vocabulary related to musical instruments through engaging auditory and interactive activities. Using sound clips, flashcards, pantomime, and memory games, students learn to recognize, pronounce, and recall new words while connecting English vocabulary with their L1. They practice language through listening, speaking, and cooperative tasks, strengthening both comprehension and communication skills. The lesson fosters creativity, teamwork, and active participation, while encouraging curiosity about music and confidence in using English in real-life contexts.

Trips

In this English lesson, students strengthen their listening comprehension, grammar awareness, and collaborative skills through two engaging texts about travel experiences. Using the running dictation technique, learners listen to short narratives, note key information, and reconstruct the texts from memory. This activity focuses on Simple Past and Simple Future Tenses, helping students notice and apply correct verb forms in context. Through group or pair work, learners practice accuracy, recall, and teamwork while developing strategies for active listening and language retention. By comparing their reconstructed versions with the original texts, students enhance self-correction skills, expand vocabulary related to travel and leisure activities, and build confidence in using English to describe past experiences and future plans.

From Clicks to Motion

In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and communicative skills through structured activities focused on past perfective and imperfective aspect in main clauses. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the difference between simple past and past progressive forms, including their habitual, completed, or ongoing meanings, and to distinguish between snapshot (perfective) and video (imperfective) interpretations of events. Through referential and affective activities, students read sentences, match them to images, evaluate aspectual meanings, and discuss their personal experiences, reinforcing accurate understanding of aspect in meaningful contexts. Pair and group work promote active engagement, peer correction, self-monitoring, and confidence in expressing past events with the appropriate aspect.

Trips

In this English lesson, students explore vocabulary related to travel and destinations while learning to recognize and use different verb tenses. Through engaging activities such as picture-based discussions, listening exercises, and a running dictation game, students connect language learning with real-world contexts. They compare how time and verb forms are expressed in English and in their L1, enhancing their grammatical awareness and multilingual competence. The lesson fosters collaboration, active participation, and curiosity about different places and cultures.

Proficiency Level: A2