TP3 LP_CV Gordh
Upper Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of the Past/Present/Future perfects forms through focus on MFP and via controlled and freer practice that asks students to share their achievements via open fill in the blank and use of forms to discuss their achievements in past/present/future.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide practice of Past, Present, Future perfect in the context of achievements over a lifetime through listening, writing, and speaking.
Procedure (35-49 minutes)
Students will see images of 3 people (who will later form the listening task] and predict, "What have they done with their lives?" Students will discuss in pairs, then share with full group.
Students will listen to 3 speakers (Present/Past/Future) achievements and by spotting details will be able to reinforce of the target sentence is Present/Past/Future perfect.
Using the previous listening activity students will focus on 3 target sentences that model Present/Past/Future tense. These target sentences are each followed by 2-3 CCQs that effectively encourage students to understand how these tenses are formed with their relation to time.
By charting each tense in time through the books visual examples and my own, and then further reinforcing that by using the key words for each perfect tense, students will have a key to refer to that we will review and encourage to keep for questions or further study. Perfect meanings moving through time can be confusing and convoluted, so this offers students further grounding in meaning as we move into form.
Using a sentence for Present/Past/Future perfect, grammatical form is shown for both statement and question. To engage students, blanks are left for (has/had/will have) and the change of the subject in future questions is addressed.
Ask students if contractions will be common in Present/Past/Future present forms (Yes). Follow with sentences that model these contractions and lead to elision in examples like "She'd eaten," "He'd owned," "They've offended," etc. All Present/Past/Future perfect forms are covered and loss of full elision in future (because of "have") is addressed. Students practice this pronunciation as a full class.
After opening with the first question as an example, students do a controlled practice by choosing 10 of 14 open-answer (no options given personalizes this activity) fill in the blanks. This allows for practice of all kinds of forms of the Present/Past/Future perfect. Students work in pairs to fill these out and discuss. Then we return to share our best in full class OCFB.
Students are given 6 sentences in Past/Present/Future Perfect form in the context of their achievements and are asked to complete them individually, then share them in pairs. Through monitoring I gather correct and "needs improvement" examples. Students are encouraged to talk about their achievements as they engage with the Past/Present/Future Perfect forms. The focus is on students producing target language and positive engagement with their own achievements.
From effectively monitoring student language in freer practice and throughout the session, I post student language on Jamboard and engage students' help with appreciating and "improving" language in the Past/Present/Future Perfect forms and any pronunciation issues that have come up during the session. Students are shown gratitude for their work, healthy risks in language, and willingness to engage with the topic, materials, and each other.
Jamboard (Structure of Lesson): https://jamboard.google.com/d/11DpyBrFEokoB8eLlVzEuBGLoyvIFgMBqTODsCns3oqY/edit?usp=sharing Google Forms (Student Interaction): https://forms.gle/2wQPkVRdTBDKWXHq5