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SIMPLE tenses Teacher's activity: T enters the classroom, greets the Ss, • the teacher
and asks them how they are, if there are any Ss missing. T evaluates students’ photocopies
- To allow Ss to practice asks Ss to copy a chart and fill it in, then swap the charts answers and
speaking spontaneously and with their partner, then tell the form about him/her conclusions. Guides
fluently about something that Students' activity: Ss fill in the charts.
may provoke the use of words T asks the Ss to find the words which belong to a number • teacher will give Dictionaries
and phrases they have been of generic words and ask the Ss to write them on the them some writing
learning last year blackboard. exercises to Cd player
- To develop Ss' ability to use T asks the Ss to fill in an exercise about a daily complete.
language in real life situations programme and then make five sentences about their day Internet
and tell their partner. Ss write the unknown words in their
notebooks and solve the exercise
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CONTINUOUS tense SS may already have done some work on this - you will • The teacher
To introduce and practice ways know your SS and how much new vocabulary you want to evaluates students’ photocopies
to: introduce to / elicit from your learners. It may be that SS answers and
* Talk about what you are have already been introduced to this tense. They will need conclusions. Guides
doing in the present a lot of practice and this lesson provides just that.
* Talking about the future and Give them the follow structure just to remember : I'm / • Teacher will give Dictionaries
* Making arrangements He's / She's + verb + -ing (for what is happening now). them some writing
elicit the question and the answer from your learners. exercises to Cd player
"What are you doing?" "I'm ." complete.
elicit (or model) some of these informal phrases that lend Internet
themselves to making arrangements. . elicit the dialogue
structures first, drill and put the form on the board. laptop
create a gap fill (cloze) by removing certain words so that
they have a dialogue frame to work from at first.
extend this dialogue to include where to meet and at what
time
PERFECT tenses Put two category headings on the board: Past Simple - Ss answers and Texts
Present Perfect results
Improving time signifier Have students brain storm on the various time signifiers photocopies
recognition and production that are used in each tense.
skills in the particularly difficult Put the time expressions into the correct category on the Oral presentation Guides
area of present perfect board and have students copy the exercise.
Ask students to provide example sentences for each of the Dictionaries
time expressions - signifiers that are on the board.
Give students worksheet and ask them to decide which Cd player
time signifiers - expressions can go with which sentences.
Make sure to point out that there are a number of Internet
possibilities for each sentence.
Correct sentences as a class. Follow-up by discussing
which time signifier(s) might be best in each case and
why.
Present Perfect or Simple Past - Which Time Signifier -
Which Sentences?
Choose which of the following time expressions can be
used with which sentences. There are various possibilities laptop
for each sentence.
ever since that time, yet, just, in the last few months, after
the course finished, already, recently, so far, that month,
yesterday, many years ago, for the past few weeks, lately,
when he went to school, since two weeks ago, just last
week, two semesters ago.
Giv ethem somo extra work sheets to work in the
classroom and as a homework.
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Active voice and Relate story which was written passive voice. T evaluates ss
Passive voice By working through the fact sheet students will hopefully • teacher will give Fotocopias
Students will improve begin to intuitively use the passive voice while them some writing
recognition of the differences contextualizing the use of the passive when used to exercises to Guías
between the passive voice and describe a native city or region. This section also creates complete.
active voice with particular student interest in the following reading selection by Diccionario
attention paid to the present asking them to guess if the facts are true or false.
simple, past simple, and present Part 1 Grabadora
perfect passive forms. A. Have students read short text (hambuegers)
Students will quickly review B. Have students underline passive voice structures. Internet
language used to express C. Students discuss what the differences are between the
opinions. active and passive voice. Computador
Students will contextualize the D. Class review of passive structure.
use of the passive by giving Part 2 Taller de
them examples Students will A. As a class, discuss which passive utterances could be bilingüismo
focus on passive oral used to describe a region, place, people, things. etc
production skills in the context B. Have students divide into groups of three.
of speaking about different C. Each group should focus on using the passive voice to
situations describe whatever they want to his/her partners.
D. Class correction of common error
Instruct students to copy in their notebooks the differences
between passive and active voice. Provide examples.
If revising an essay, pair students.
Instruct them to read their rough drafts and circle passive
voice constructions.
Instruct each pair to exchange writing drafts and identify
passive voice constructions in their partner's writing.
Rewrite paragraphs in active voice.
Share revisions with the class.
Motivate students with a paragraph challenge.
Give them some worksheet to fill.
TOPIC AND OBJETIVES DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOPIC EVALUATION RESOURSCS
he teacher greets the students and asks them different • continuous – Copies
REPORTED SPEECH questions such as: ”How are you today?”, “What day is through observation Computes
today?” Then she checks the homework and analysis of Tv
• to show interest in gaining new
The teacher announces the topic of the lesson and answers.
information about English
motivates her choice: the importance of knowing how to
grammar
report what somebody else said • the teacher
• to understand essential
The teacher asks the students to role play a conversation evaluates students’
information from a text
Blackboard, hand-outs answers and
• to acquire a new grammar
The teacher asks the students to try to report what the two conclusions.
knowledge about Reported
said and write the answers on the blackboard.
Speech
The teacher asks the students some questions concerning • the students listen
the sentences they wrote. They must observe how the to the teacher and
LEARNING AIMS:
persons change and then the teacher explains that also the ask questions if any
• to encourage students to use
tenses change in English.
the Reported Speech
The teacher explains the changes that occur at the
• the teacher
evaluates students’
answers and
conclusions.