Reading and Grammar
pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of the past simple and past continuous in the context of previous experience
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking in the context of past experiences
Procedure (33-43 minutes)
-I'll tell them a story about myself and try to use past continuous and past simple. -Ask them to talk about their stories.(what happened last night?)
-I'm going to make different examples with past simple and past continuous . -"I was watching TV, suddenly my mobile phone rang." -CCQs: *Are we talking about the past? Yes *What is the tense? P.C and P.S -I will write the sentence on the board and draw timeline -P.C: background information -P.S: main events -I try to have color coding -Drill pronunciation orally and individually -Ask them to make example
-I'll give them the instruction: Read exercise 6 and answer the questions -ICQs: *Are you going to talk? No *Are you going to do individually or in pairs? Individually -Pair check -Feedback -We will read the RULES with each other
-I'll give them the instruction: -Instead of ICQs, I'll do the first one as example -Pair check -Feedback( I will play the audio) -I ask them listen again and notice how was and were are pronounced
-I'll give them the instruction: -Instead of ICQ, I'll do the first one as example -I'll put them in pairs/groups and ask them to talk about the sentences in their books in exercise 9 -Delayed error correction (if necessary) -Feedback
-I'll put them in pairs/groups and ask them to write what happened on their trip or journey -They should use past simple and past continuous -At the end they can stand up and talk about their story and they can choose the the most interesting story