Draw Ss' attention to the photo on the monitor. Ask: Where are the people? What actions do you see? ( Talk, dance, eat, listen to music, Play video games, read.) Elicit sentences from the class as much as possible.

Mime some actions and elicit from Ss what you are doing. (Sit down and ask them: Am I walking or sitting?) mime two more actions as well and try to get Ss involved and answer your questions. Tell Ss: Today we are gonna have a game. Pantomime! Give Ss instruction and demonstrate what they are gonna do.Tell Ss that they are supposed to learn how to talk about what people are doing in this lesson. Make Ss understand the difference between simple present tense and present continuous. Ask does any one of you play the guitar or any musical instrument? Are you playing the guitar now?No! but you play the guitar, you know how to play the guitar.

Write a sentence on the board. Explain the rules for the present continuous: Subject+be+verb+-ing Focus on negative statements and write on the board: Subject+be+not+verb+-ing Focus on use: Say: we use the present continuous to talk about what is happening right now. Spelling: For most verbs, add -ing. For one-syllable verbs with the pattern consonant, vowel, consonant, double the last consonant, then add -ing. For verbs that end in -e, drop the -e and add -ing.

Do drills. Ask Ss repeat after you chorally. Start with the written sentence on the board. I am standing. I'm standing. (illustrate the form and contractions with your fingers). He is standing. We, They, Sleep, dance, my brother, Play, we, I, The guitar, she, They, Soccer, we, tennis, She is doing the dishes, her mother, we, we are watching the TV, you, My brothers, They, a game. Ask Ss to make Yes/No questions. (Elicit in Yes/No questions we use rising intonation and falling intonation for WH-questions. I am dancing, Smoke, she, they, drive, You, they. Divide Ss into three groups. Ask first group to make Yes/No questions, the second group to answer with Yes or No in both shot and complete answers and the last one to make a WH-question. M: I'm working_First group: (Are you working?) M: Yes_Second group:(Yes, I am, I'm working.) M:Why?_Third group: Why are working? M:She is dancing. _First g: (Is she dancing?) M:Yes_Second G: (Yes she is, She's dancing.) M: Where_ Third G: (Where is she dancing?) Change the groups and go over more examples. Ask Ss to do it in pairs, Then individually.

Put Ss in pairs and ask them to talk about what their family members are probably doing now. Monitor and write good and bad language of Ss. Answer Ss' questions if needed.

Ask each pair to tell the class what his partner's family members are doing now. Make Ss practice on their errors that you've written on the board, Ask Ss to modify the wrong sentences and make everybody repeat them chorally and individually.