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Past Simple vs Past Continuous tenses
B1+ level

Description

In this lesson a student learns to differentiate the past simple tense and the past continuous tense. Then, the lesson is followed with intensive reading of a text containing the past simple and the past continuous tenses.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide practice of the past continuous tense and the past simple tense in the context of festivities, celebrations and customs

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide intensive reading practice using a text about a visit to Shakespear`s Globe in London in the context of festivities, celebrations and customs

Procedure

Warm up/Lead in (1-2 minutes) • To help the student get into the lesson`s topic

T asks questions - What did you do yesterday? What were you donig yesterday at 6 pm?

Explore (4-6 minutes) • To explore the difference between the PS and PC tenses

T shows two pictures (the first - an eaten out packet of biscuits, the second - a child eating biscuits) with the sentenses below the pictures (He ate the biscuits yesterday; He was eating biscuits yesterday at 6 pm). T asks S to answer the questions. - what forms of the verbs are used in the sentences? (Past) - why the past forms of the verbs are different? (PS and PC) - what helps us to differentiate PS and PC? (6 pm, exact time)

Explore 2 (5-7 minutes) • To explore different uses of the PS and PC

T shows a chart (tense column (PS, PC) - use column (mixed)- example column (mixed). S has to match the tenses PS and PC to their uses and find appropriate examples. PS: - past habits (She called her parents every Sunday when she lived abroad). - past actions which happened one immediately after the other (He bought a hat, put it on and joined the parade). - past actions which won`t happen again (She participated in the 2018 London Marathon). PC: - an action which was in progress at a stated time in the past (Sam was watching a fireworks display at 10.00 pm). - a past action which was in progress when another action interrupted it (They were marching in the parade when it started to rain). - two or more actions which were happening at the same time in the past (While Sarah was preparing a special meal, her brother was decorating their house). - to give background information in a story (It was time for the Spring Festival. The sun was shining and people were dancing in the street).

Drilling (10-15 minutes) • To drill the difference between PS and PC

T gives exercises to S to drill the rule. ex 1 p 13 GB (S chooses the correct verb form and gives reasons) ex 2 p 13 GB (S puts the verbs in brackets into the PS or the PC) ex 3 p 13 GB (S forms questions (using the verbs in brackets) in PS or PC and answers them)

Intensive reading (6-7 minutes) • To learn to see the difference of the PS and PC in a text

S reads the blog entry about a visit to Shakespeare`s Globe in London intensively, finds PS and PC verb forms, underlines them and chooses the reason of their use from the list.

Intensive reading 2 (3-4 minutes) • To see the difference between the time expressions of PS and PC

S reads the blog entry about a visit to Shakespeare`s Globe in London intensively to find examples of time expressions used with PS and PC in the blog entry.

Oral practice (7-8 minutes) • To activate PS and PC in speaking

T asks questions on the content of the blog entry about a visit to Shakespeare`s Globe in London .

Oral practice 2 (8-10 minutes) • To provide freer speaking

T helps S make a plan on the blog entry about a visit to Shakespeare`s Globe in London , S retells the text. T writes down mistakes while S is speaking. T gives S his list of mistakes. S corrects the mistakes.

Homework (1-2 minutes) • To explain the homework

T explains the homework - write a blog entry about personal past experience of visiting an entertaining establishment, use the blog entry about a visit to Shakespeare`s Globe in London as an example.

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