I will show a picture of a birthday party and elicit the following 1. what can you see? (birthday / party) 2. Are the people happy? yes 3. Do you like parties like this? yes 4. When is your birthday?

I will give them the text in word handout they will read it for gist I will provide questions in google forms about the text {Choose the correct answer} in 3 mins 1. The family lives in ----- a) Britain b) Bristol 2. People in the party were ----- a) thirty b) thirteen 3. It was a ------ day. a) cold b) hot 4. Granddad was from ----- a) London b) Liverpool Students answer then pair check in the chat in 2 mins then I will send the answers in the chat to check by themselves later

In pairs, read the text with your partner and underline the sentences which have was and were in 3 minutes in the breakout rooms for example (It was my thirteenth birthday yesterday) ICQs (are you going to work in pairs? yes / are you going to underline sentences with was and were? yes) then OCFB on my screen do you have the same answers?

Meaning I will send them to google forms https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nPU_OC3qhfH5UG3gxKhdixKy1Ft-ljqaMHKUN1avmFI/edit which has the following questions It was my thirteenth birthday yesterday. 1. Is the birthday now? yes / no It was my thirteenth birthday yesterday. 2. Is the birthday finished? yes / no 3. there was a big party at our house. was it only one party ? yes / no 4. About thirty people were here. Were the people together? yes / no ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Form I will ask them to help me to write the words under the correct place in the table I will show them an example on the screen they will do it in pairs in the chat box then OCFB 1.I was in the mall yesterday. 2.Salma was short in 2015. 3.we were lucky last week. 4.the weather was hot. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pronunciation I will drill the linking in the following sentences 1. there was a big 2. people were here 3. we were lucky because it was hot

I will give a task to let the students choose the correct answers from was\were in pairs in the chat box then OCFB

I will divide the ss. into breakout rooms to talk about the following find someone who was in the cinema \ yesterday \ last week was born in January \ March \ May \ July \ September \ December was in a birthday last Friday was in work before the class THEN OCFB