Present perfect
Pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of Present perfect in the context of Life experiences, recent eve
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification of Simple past in the context of Past actions
Procedure (40-49 minutes)
In this stage I will provide some examples about past tense and expanding the concept of that pointing to the grammar structure of the simple past
In this stage I want my students to read handouts and involving them to talk about the difference between simple past and present perfect to clarify the meaning of new grammar
By providing some examples of the grammar I am going to clarify the usages, meaning ,form, pronunciation and draw student’s attention to the TL
I will clarify the meaning by drawing a timeline on the board and asking some CCQs; Are the actions done in the past or present? Is there any visible result or evidence of the actions in the present time?After that I will elicit the structure from the students to clarify how to form the sentences. The regular and irregular verbs are mentioned in this stage.At the end I draw the students' attention to the adverbs used with this tense: for +a period of time, since + a point of time in the past until present,
The students going to answer the provided exercises on their handouts and they go through checking in pairs and eventually we are going to correct the answers with whole class
I will ask my students to talk about news, recent events , life experiences ,present results ,unfinished time word and how long something lasted?