Buying and trying on clothes
A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of Present continuos in the context of clothes
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a dialogs in the context of clothes
Procedure (39-59 minutes)
Do a few tongue twisters
Show students pictures of famous people at hte Met gala and ask their opinion on the looks. By that you can check how did they learn new words from homework exercises
When students are talking about Met Gala looks, ask them to think, how would they say in english "на нем надето/ она одета в...". With this questions they might remember some forms or phrases that they may already heard from somewhere. Then, say an example, outloud and ask them "what is "ing" in this word? What does it show?"
With 90% students will not answer correctlly what is ing and whad it does. At this moment start an explainaition of the topic. When is it used? Show all the cases Then, show the construction. How to make a present continuos sentence. Statement, negative and question sentence
Give them an audio and ask them to focus on the sentences in the audio. Try to write down all of the present continuos forms. After that, compare what everyone has heard and after ask one by one, why pr.con is used here and here and here • Действие происходящее в настоящий момент речи • Непостоянные, временные действия (I am reading an interesting book. Я начал ее читать до момента речи и буду читать еще какое-то время, но конкретно сейчас я ее не читаю) • Будущие (личные) договоренности и планы (только с теми действиями, которые мы решили выполнять 100% и заранее уверены, что действие произойдет) • Тенденция и тренды: продолжающийся и непрерывный процесс (со словами always, constantly) • Раздражение, гнев и критика )
Ask them to make up the dialogues in pairs of 3-4. For example: someone is window shopping with friends and they are trying new clothes on. They ask each others opinions
Упражнение 1. Добавь окончание -ing к глаголам, распределяя их по строчкам в соответствии с написанием Упражнение 2. Напишите глаголы, от которых образованы данные причастия. Переведите их на русский язык. Упражнение 3. Выберите правильную форму глагола BE. Упражнение 4. Переведите на английский язык.