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- Intro - (1 min)
Pre-board & cover the phrase ‘Travel Grammar’ at the top of the board.
Come in with some luggage, a backpack, a straw hat with a copy of a passport. Elicit
the theme and of the lesson.
Review some Regular & Irregular Past verbs 2nd and 3rd form before if needed.
Regular Irregular
Want > Wanted Go > Went > Gone (Participle)
Live > Lived Hide > Hid > Hidden (Participle)
Play > Played Bite > Bit > Bitten (Participle)
Study > Studied Shake > Shook > Shaken (Participle)
Stop > Stopped Fly > Flew > Flown (Participle)
RIGHT or WRONG
Look at the sentences. Are they grammatically right or wrong? Why?
1. Scotland
• Have you gone/visited/been to Scotland?
• Where did you go?
• Jenny has been to Scotland.
• She visited Edinburgh last year
2. England
3. France
4. Germany
5. Spain
6. Italy
7. China
8. Japan
9. Africa
10. Egypt
11. Iceland
- Study 2b - Sentence creation & guessing exercise (8-10 min)
Put the students into groups of 2 then hand out the printed exercise to the students.
Board the title beforehand, be colourful!
Ask how many each guessed right & whose the most psychic :D
Demo the first one as an example.
A. Complete the sentences about your partner in the Present Perfect or Past
Simple. You cannot ask them and you must use the correct form of the verb
in brackets.
1. ...... ..... ..... ..... (start) learning English in ...... ..... ..... .....
• Barry started learning English in Highschool
• Wrong. Barry started learning English last year.
2. ...... ..... ..... ..... (have) their mobile for ...... ..... ..... .....
3. ...... ..... ..... ..... (eat) ...... ..... ..... ..... for dinner last night.
4. ...... ..... ..... ..... (know) his/her best friend for ...... ..... ..... .....
5. ...... ..... ..... ..... (be) awake since ...... ..... ..... .....
6. ...... ..... ..... ..... (go) to ...... ..... ..... ..... last weekend.
7. ...... ..... ..... ..... (live) in his/her current residence for ...... ..... ..... .....
8. ...... ..... ..... ..... (clean) his/her bedroom last ...... ..... ..... .....
9. ...... ..... ..... ..... (drink) coffee ...... ..... ..... .....
10. ...... ..... ..... ..... (live) in this city/town for ...... ..... ..... .....
11. ...... ..... ..... ..... (get) his/her hair cut last ...... ..... ..... .....
12. ...... ..... ..... ..... (not be) on holiday for ...... ..... ..... .....
RIGHT or WRONG
1. ...... ..... ..... ..... (start) learning English in ...... ..... ..... .....
2. ...... ..... ..... ..... (have) their mobile for ...... ..... ..... .....
3. ...... ..... ..... ..... (eat) ...... ..... ..... ..... for dinner last night.
4. ...... ..... ..... ..... (know) his/her best friend for ...... ..... ..... .....
5. ...... ..... ..... ..... (be) awake since ...... ..... ..... .....
6. ...... ..... ..... ..... (go) to ...... ..... ..... ..... last weekend.
7. ...... ..... ..... ..... (live) in his/her current residence for ...... ..... ..... .....
8. ...... ..... ..... ..... (clean) his/her bedroom last ...... ..... ..... .....
9. ...... ..... ..... ..... (drink) coffee ...... ..... ..... .....
10. ...... ..... ..... ..... (live) in this city/town for ...... ..... ..... .....
11. ...... ..... ..... ..... (get) his/her hair cut last ...... ..... ..... .....
12. ...... ..... ..... ..... (not be) on holiday for ...... ..... ..... .....
B. Now, check with you partner if you guessed right.
Activation
Reading