To start the class, I will ask the students whether they are all from Istanbul. Hopefully a few of them will have moved here, so we try to find out for how long they have been there as well as since when. This will show how well they already understand the concept of since and for, as the lesson plan suggests that they are quite familiar with the use of both words. To clarify, we will make use of a timeline and try to find out who's been here the longest and shortest (supposedly, that will be me).

For this exercise, sts will be using the WB. I will make everybody stand up and assign certain dates and phrases to the words "since" and "for". There will be more "since" cards than "for", and the sts will be asked to fill out the "for" column with time phrases that refer to them.

We will look at the sentences about people from the radio show that they've heard with James and break them down together. CCQ: "Is she in Ibiza now?" "Is she home?" "Did he go to the beach?" "When tense is this?" "Is this about being somewhere or going somewhere?".

Without getting into much detail about the differences between "I have been in London" and "I have been living in London", I'll give the students envelopes with parts of sentences. Because this exercise might be a little advanced, sts will work in groups. They've dealt with these types of sentences in the first class and Nashira's lesson will go into detail about this, so it could be a good time to get them to work with these tenses in a controlled manner without thinking too much about them. I will get the students to write some sentences they've come up with on the WB. Some of the vocabulary I've used in the sentence might be above their level, so I will have visual material ready to explain certain words ("crash", "outer space").

For the last exercise, we will make a list of possible places in Istanbul and the world, as well as events and review collectively how to express "not having been there" as in "never" ("the moon") or certain years ago ("Italy", "Lebanon"). I will ask the students to make a list and then get some of the suggestions. We will review them in the whole class ("Have you been to a wedding?", "Yes, two years ago." - "I haven't been to a wedding for two years / since my sister got married."). After demoing, the sts will write 3-4 sentences using this template. After having worked on negations for a while, we will move on to expressing affirmative sentences with the simple past. It will certainly be necessary to use the timeline again for this ("I haven't been to London since 1993" but "I went to London in 1993" - CCQ! "Is this action finished? Am I still in London? Am I still not in London?"). Sts will then talk to each other in pairs about places and whether or not they have been there. We will try to find out what they have learned about each other.