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Past continuous
Elementary level

Materials

Abc American English File book
Abc Board

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of Past continuous in the context of Vacations

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide accuracy speaking practice in a Conversation in the context of Vac

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

I start the class by talking about last month in which I was preparing my belongings for vacation when it started raining and my vacation was destroyed.

Exposure (5-7 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

I will ask my students to talk about the actions that they were doing in the past. I will use their sentences to highlight the target language.

Highlighting (2-4 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

I will write some past continuous sentences on the board. I can choose from my students sentences and if they made some wrong sentences I will write the correct past continuous form on the board.

Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

will draw a timeline on the board and ask my learners whether the tense is related to past, present or future and after that i will determine the point on the timeline and ask some questions like did it happen ones or over a period of time ? (CCQ's) , their pronunciation and intonation will be examined as well

Controlled Practice (10-12 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

The students are going to the exercise on page 17 Practice individually and then going to check in pairs. The To concept check answers will be checked with the whole class at the end. and prepare They have 8 minutes to the task individually and check in pairs.

Free Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

I will motive my students to remember their vacations from many years ago and share to each other in the form of past continuous and at first i will want them to talk about their experiences in their vacations with their partners and at the end let me know about the sentences they made with the new tense. Delete

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