Telling stories ( urban legends ), phrasal verbs + past perfect contiuous.
upper intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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The main aim is introducing the past perfect continuous to the students and let the learners differentiate between the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous.
Subsidiary Aims
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The subsidiary aim is to give the studentents extra practice activities to differentiate between the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous
Procedure (45 minutes)
Ask students to guess the meaning of phrasal verbs.
Ask student to find the definition of phrasal verbs.
Ask students to read an article and answer the four questions about the urban legends.
Give each group a dictionary to check the meaning of words.
Ask students to look at the pictures and guess what happened in each one.
Ask students to listen to CD and find out if their guesses are right or wrong.
Ask the students what had happened in the pictures and explain the use of past perfect continuous.
Ask students to put the words in order.
Ask students to fill the gaps with one of the verbs from the list in the past perfect continuous.