Past Continuous

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Learning objectives

8.4.3.1. Understand specific information and detail in texts on a growing range of familiar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts.

8.5.3.1. Use appropriate subject-specific vocabulary and syntax to talk about a range or general topics and some curricular topics

Lesson objectives

• Learn 15 out of 20 words related to the topic

• Apply subject- specific vocabulary in speech appropriately arranging words and phrases into well formed sentences

Stages / Time

Teachers actions

Students actions

Assessment

Resources

Beginning of the lesson

5 minutes

Organization moment.

Activity: Hello Greeting.

Greeting. Stand up. Make a circle, please. Let's begin our lesson with Hello Greeting.

Objectives of the lesson. The Teacher (T) says the lesson objectives, letting students know what to anticipate from the lesson.

The teacher says the aims of the lesson.

Student great their teacher.

 (The Students (SS) make a circle and greet each in. other, shaking hands and saying "Hello", then the Ss say the motto of the lesson) "Be friendly, be active, be helpful, speak English all the time"

SS answer the T’s questions about the date and the day, put down the date ,the day of the lesson and the theme of the lesson

Middle

35 minutes

Practice

First Part of Practice

Discussion and text analysis

Second Part of Practice

Group-discussion

Third Part of Practice

Provide structured and semi-structured exercises for students

Review and pay students attention on the following grammar forms - Present Continuous and Past Simple

For practicing purposes of Past Simple, ask students to discuss the following question in small-groups:

-How did you spend your weekend?

-What did you do yesterday?

-Any problems with the homework?

Then, move to the current period of time in order to practice Present Continuous, ask the following questions:

-What are we doing now?

-Teacher: “We are sitting and talking now in the class. But what were you doing yesterday at the same time?”

-Teacher: “Great, so to talk about something that we do in the past in progressive we use the time, which is called Past Continuous. And what is the grammar formula?”

-Teacher: “Awesome, what about negative and question forms?”

After discussion teacher need to repeat the grammar formula of Past Continuous:

“+” S+was/were+Ving

“-” S+was/were+not+Ving

“?”Was/were+S+Ving

Give student photocopies so they can freely make their notes and write on them

Ask students to repeat the grammar forms of the tense again

Prompt students to highlight the differences and interconnection between Past Continuous and Past Simple

Point out the students’ attention on the aspect of non-action verbs

prepare the board for the next step - write down question for the text

Provide the handouts with text and ask student to start reading the text. After completion of the reading stage ask student the question, which were written beforehand on the board.

Divide the students into pairs and ask them to check and discuss each others works and find the common solution*. Then in the whole-class discussion provide the answers for the exercise, which were done in the first part

Provide to the students photocopies of – Book

Students to do complete-gaps, sentence formation, and write words to compete the text exercise. Example of the task:

Students work in small groups and answer and discuss the questions provided by teacher (Past Simple revision)

Then, they participate in whole-class discussion (Present Continuous revision)

-Student: Provide the model answers, like “I was working yesterday at that time or I was watching a TV at that time”

-Student: “Subject + was/were+ Ving”

-Student: question - “Was he watching a TV yesterday 7 pm?” and negative - “He wasn’t watching a TV yesterday at 7 pm.”

 Analyze the grammar page from the book, discuss the difference between Past Continuous and Past Simple and their interdependence, make notes and recall the topic of non-action verbs

Students take part in whole-class discussion and answer the question about the story

Students share their results and opinions in pairs

Students individually do the exercises

Monitoring

Teacher’s assessment

work in pairs

Pair assessment

Self-assessment

PPT

Handout worksheet

Handout worksheet

Handout worksheet

End

5 minutes

Provide activities for further practice

Give out the handouts with homework to students

“Next Class we are going to cover the next grammar tense - Present Perfect. See you later! Have nice day!”

Students write the home task