viernes, 28 de febrero de 2014

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.

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