Lesson Plan – ESOL Entry 2

9:15 – 11:15

Present Perfect and Speaking Activities

9:15 Experiences – Have you ever?

Review of Past Participles:

Introduction to Present Perfect:

Have / Has + Past participle

 Difference between ‘has’ or ‘have’?

Reasons for their use:

 An experience in the past (but we don’t know when).

 An action or event which starts in the past and continues now.
 A recently finished action

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1) An experience in the past (but we don’t know when):
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Write three sentences on the board:

I have taught the Hungarian army.

I have surfed for many years.

I have been to Paris.

 Students must work out which one of the sentences is a lie. Students must all complete
their own 3 sentences, including one which is a lie. Students must then guess which one
is a lie and which are true.

2) An action or event which starts in the past and continues now.

I have been a teacher for 5 years (For – duration)

I have been a teacher since2006 (Since – exact time/date)

Students must write examples on separate pieces of paper, which the tutor collects in. The
tutor then reads out the examples to individual students and they must guess who the
information belongs to (remember to keep the points)

3) A recently finished action (and we can see the result now)

I have just played football

Ask students to draw the football player in as much detail as they can. Go around and hold
up the examples and compare everybody’s drawings. Explain that we use the Present
Perfect to describe the result of an action that has recently been finished. Ask students to
draw another person that shows that they have just completed something and see if the
other students can guess what has happened.

 Start students on the Present Perfect Review Sheets (in 11/03/11 folder)