This time I am not going to forget about you.

Yesterday was our last lesson on the Present Continuous. You have certaintly had the chance to practice it so I hope you don´t forget it in quite a while.

Yesterday, after our usual rounds of questions students were given a picture and asked to work with a partner. The pictures were similar but had some differences. In order to find out what their  partner´s picture was like sutdents had to ask questions like:
Is a man playing the piano in your picture?
or
Are two men talking in your picture?

Later students were told how to describe a picture: we start talking about the general picture and then we talk about the particular, we get into detail.
For example, in these pictures we could say:

In the back of the picture there is a man playing the piano and a woman singing. In the front part four people are sitting at a table. ( Then we can say what each one of those people are doing and finally what we see on the table).

The reason why we do this is because in this way the person who is listening to you can imagine the picture in his/her mind easily.

Each student then explained part of their picture aloud. We followed the order mentioned above.

Next, students listened to a recording: questions in the present continuosus. Some of them starting with Where, some with What, some with Who. After listening they ask each other the same type of questions about some pictures and answer them. We also listened to a short conversation. Students read it and role played it. Great Job, kiddos.
Last we played a board game. We played for quite a while but nobody wan. The purpose of the game was to practice both the Present Continuous and the Present Simple. Depending on what the box said students had to make a sentence with one or the other.
Example: if the words in the box said phone/ring/right now, then students had to say: The phone is ringing right now.
If it said take a shower/every day, then students had to say: I take a shower every day.

Homework
Do this exercise. Then, write all the sentences on a piece of paper.

But we continue practicing the Present Continuous. All the students could talk about actions in general, because we had been learning for a long time, so this time some new specific actions were introduced:
House chores: sweep the floor, mop the floor, vacuum the floor, make the bed, tidy up, set the table, do the laundry, fold the clothes, iron the clothes, wash up, cook, wash the windows, cut the grass, dust the furniture. 

Students  acted out those actions. The other students had to guess what they were doing. We used this activity to practice asking questions in the present continuous. How do we ask a question in the present continuous? Very easy: we change the order of the words. Instead of saying:

He is sweeping the floor.

we put is first and say:

Is he sweeping the floor?

or are first:

Are Simon and Mary washing up the dishes?

Next students wrote some sentences in the present continuous. The had to write what the people in the pictures were doing.

We did some exercises in the book. There were pictures of different rooms and somebody in the family was doing something in each one. Students had to ask each other: What's Mary doing in the living room? and give an answer: she is playing a game. Next, they asked things like: Is Mary eating a sandwich in the living room? and answer: No, she isn't, she is playing a game.
After that students drew schematic pictures of the rooms in their homes. In each one they placed a member of their family doing something. Finally they exchanged notebooks with a partner and worked with them, asking each other questions about their pictures.
Homework
It is Monday, it's 8:00 o.c. in the evening. What's each member of your family doing and in which room are they? Example: My sister is doing her homework in her bedroom or My mother is writing an email in the living room. 

Everybody did their homework this time. GOOD FOR YOU!

So now I know where everybody´s aunts and uncles live.

We have started a new topic: it is about Actions we are doing now. We also study how to tell the time in this topic. But we had already done that, so that I think everybody in this group can tell the time correctly.
We had also studied lots of verbs or actions, so what we need to do now is learn how to use those verbs in the Present Continuous.

You know how to do it:

The Present of To Be:

I am
you are
he is
she  is                                +  verbing      Example: eating.
it is
we are
you are
they are

When we ask questions we put the verb Be first, then the subject, finally the verbing.
Example: Are you eating a sandwich? Is Joe walking to school?

In our class, students chose a picture card of an action and they had to act out that action. Then they had to ask: What am I doing? The other students had to guess. We did it in different ways, sometimes students worked with a partner, so we could practice singular and plural forms and all the different persons: I, you, he/she, we, you, they.

We did 2 exercises from the book: students had to listen to a recording and match the actions with the pictures, then they wrote on their notebooks what each character in the exercise was doing at a particular moment.
Finally we had the Olympic Games: students had to answer the question What's is he/she doing? or What are they doing? about some picture cards.

Homework

Say what they are doing. Make 5 sentences. One of them, at least, has to be plural: about more than 1 person.