present simple vs present continuous tense
pre intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of the usage of the present simple and the present continuous tenses in the context of daily activites
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist and detailed reading practice using a text about life in a different city in the context of daily activities
Procedure (44-66 minutes)
Use mentimeter question to get the students think about shopping, each student should enter two words in 1 minute. Once they complete that, talk about the the words that will come up on the screen for about 2 minutes.
Teaching vocabulary: -Try to elicit the word "colleague" by asking questions like "What do we call the person we work with?". If students cannot come up with the word provide it and ask more concept checking questions such as "Is your friend from your class your colleague?". -Drill the pronunciation. -Write the word on the whiteboard. -Using the visual in the book, try to elicit the words "dragon" and :mask", if students cannot come up with the words provide them, drill the pronunciation and write the words on the whiteboard.
-Ask Ss to work in pairs and distribute each pair one of the reading texts. They should find out if the projected 4 topics on the whiteboard are mentioned in their texts in 2 minutes. -Once they finish, check with whole class.
-Direct Ss to Blooket for T/F questions, ask them to answer the questions by reading the text. -Ss receive immediate feedback on the application. -Finally, Ss read the two messages in the book and decide who the messages come from, Lucas or Diana.
-Ask Ss to look at the 2 questions in exercise E in the books and talk about those in pairs for 3 minutes. -Teacher walks around listening to the Ss.
-By this stage, Ss have been exposed to the target language by reading the texts.
-Ask Ss to tell you what Lucas does in his free time and what he is doing at the street party. ---Write the sentences on the board as marker sentences.
-Ask CCQs to clarify meaning: a) Is this part of his routine? YES b) Is he studying now? NO c) Are they watching the dragon now? YES d) Is this something they do everyday? NO -Use a timeline to explain that the continuous tense is used for things happening at the time of speaking. -Revise form as they have studied it in detail earlier. Emphasize 3rd person singular in the present simple tense by using different pronouns. -Drill the pronunciation of the contraction in the sentence "we're watching the dragon".
Ask Ss to go on Wooclap and fill in the blanks with either present simple or present cont. tense in 8 minutes. Check correct answers with whole class.
-Ask Ss to work in pairs and tell each other 5 daily activities and then 3 things they are doing at the time of speaking. -Give example sentences such as "I wake up early on weekdays" and "I am teaching English this morning". -Go around listening to their conversations taking notes if there are any mistakes. -Provide delayed feedback by writing the wrong sentence on the board and asking Ss to correct it.