The comparison between present simple and present continuous
Elementary 3 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice in the context of the objects belong to the students
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a picture description in the context of talking about an exhibition
Procedure (5-75 minutes)
Use a picture in 102 to describe it as a warm up first Let students talk about it, tell the teacher what can be seen in a picture, then ICQs: 1: How many people do you see? 2: What do you think they are talking about? 3: Is it about early morning or late afternoon? 4: How many people are there wearing suit? Ok, Let's find out what is their names
We have 3 practices. We have to do it at least 2 of them in class. practice 4 + handout 3 can be given as a homework. *ICQs for first part: 1: How many names do you see? 2: How many columns do we have? Listen and write the sentence *ICQs for the second part: 1: Are we going to write freely or special words? 2: How many sentences are you going to listen? 3: How many blanks should you complete? /part 4 and an exercise paper is given for the homework
pre-teach: let the students find the words ICQs: 1: How many phrases do you see? 2: Where should you find it? 3: Are you going to circle them? yes While teach : before starting write this sentence on the board : This is my phone. This phone is mine(remember that my and mine are written in red, also other possessives) ,draw the table and complete it by eliciting it from students and the teacher can ask CCQs: 1: In mine, do we say 'mine phone' or 'my phone'? my phone 2: So, which one is shorter? mine 3: After mine, - do we need another noun? no 4: Can I say 'yours phone'? 5: 'His' is for a man or a woman? 6: Can we say 'hers phone'? 7: Is 'ours' for one person or more than one? 8: Does 'theirs' belongs to me or to other people? Let's get repetition.
practice 1 ; pair-work, divide them 2 by 2 ICQs: 1: How many sentences do you have? 2: Are yours answers going to be change from possessive adjective and possessive pronoun? 3: Is Who is different from Whose? yes practice 3 : ICQs: 1: Are you going to listen to it alone? yes 2: Are you going to check it with your partner? yes 3: Are you going to come here and practice? yes 4: When you come here, am I going to change your partner? yes
The teacher asks something in Persian, the students should change it to English. for the next exercise, The teacher say something in English but gives a hint in order that students can answer with a complete sentence.
