Have learners talk about 1 or 2 questions related to the topic of the lesson: What are you working on at the moment? At work, as a hobby, etc. If you are, do you plan to share this work?

Instruct students to look at the photos and read the letters. Then, have them answer the following questions: Why is Bonnie unemployed? Why is Harry unemployed?

Have students look at highlighted phrases within the letters, afterwards, instruct them to designate each phrase as either present simple tense or present continuous tense.

Cover Meaning, Form, and Pronunciation of the phrases used in the previous section. Grammar of the present simple tense and present continuous tense.

Students will read a letter sent from Harry to Frank and fill in the gaps of the sentences using either a simple present tense or present continuous grammar tense grammar structure. Students will do this individually and compare their answers with each other in BORs.

Students will work in pairs in BORs to answer the following questions: Do you think it’s more difficult to be unemployed when you’re young or when you’re older? Why? Can people in your country get unemployment benefit? If not, what do they do? What’s the best way to find a job?

Have students give feedback with the class to identify possible errors or questions about present simple or continuous tenses.

Provide students with the correction of errors identified during monitoring of the BORs activities.