For my seventh CELTA teaching practice, I taught a grammar lesson on the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous, using the context of sport, training, and personal achievements. This was my first fully independent lesson plan, and it marked a real shift in how confident I felt designing, sequencing, and delivering a complete grammar lesson on my own.
The aim of the lesson was to help learners understand the difference in meaning and use between the two forms. Using examples such as I’ve won three matches and I’ve been training since January, students discovered how one tense focuses on completed results, while the other highlights ongoing or repeated activities. They worked through guided noticing tasks, controlled practice, and a personalised speaking activity where they shared their own sporting or fitness experiences.
My tutor described this as a strong and well-organised lesson, noting clear staging, effective modelling, and thoughtful anticipation of learner difficulties. I also received helpful suggestions for future lessons, including balancing meaning–form–pronunciation more evenly and making my controlled practice more output-based.
This online version of the lesson includes interactive grammar checks, sentence-building tasks, and a short wrap-up quiz—giving visitors a chance to practice the two forms the same way my learners did. Check it out here:
