Universidade Licungo

Department of letters and Humanities

Gaspar João António

English Level: Intermediate level Pairwork: writing and speaking

Developed Material

Activity aim: To create a story about ‘’Romantic meeting’’ by inventing answers to

questions and writing them down using the past simple of regular and irregular verbs.

Instructions: Write answers in the spaces, inventing details for the questions. When
you have finished writing the story, give it to another student to read aloud to or pin
the stories up around the classroom for the other students to read it and correct the
mistakes.

Who was the woman?

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Where did she go on holiday and who did she go with?
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Where did they stay?
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Who was the man?
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What did the man say to the woman?
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When? Did they go together and what did they do?
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What happened next and how did it end?
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From: Macmillan Publishers Limited.
Reference: Kay, Suzan. Communicative activities for students of English. The lake school of
English. Macmillan Heinemann.
English Level: Elementary Level Material adaptation

Grammar and Function: Present continuous

Activity aim: To practice the present continuous by telling what people are doing in
the pictures.

Instructions: Check the picture to see what Zulmira

and Ana are doing. See the example.

1 2 3

4 6
5
From: Trindade Nahara, Derek Strange (1995) Communicating in English.

1.Cátia Is going to the shopping center.

2. Cristina _________________________________now.

3. Ana and her mother __________________ about the school.

4. Katia_____________________________to school.

5. Zulmira_______________________________at the moment.

6.Ana_____________________________________about her birthday.