English 3

Unit 6: Accidents
Online session 2

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Unit 6: Accidents

Session 2 communicative objective

•By the end of this session, you will be able to talk about what people had
been doing before a certain event in the past occurred.

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 What had they been doing?
• What do you think they had been doing before this happened?

Maybe he had been driving too fast

before the car overturned.
7. before the dog bit him

1. before the car overturned

5. before he caught fire

3. before he fell asleep

2. before he fell down the stairs 4. before he ran over the lady with his shopping trolley 6. before the ladder fell down

3-5 minutes
Warm up
whole class 3
 What had you been doing?
Pre • Write questions you want to ask your partner or your teacher about what he/she had been doing
production 1 before/when some events happened.
• Share your questions here. Then, ask and answer the questions you have prepared.

A: What had you been doing before B: Oh! Before I entered UPC, I had been
you entered UPC? studying at school. What about you?

Write the questions here.

6 minutes

whole class Language bank

What had you been doing before you …?
What had you been doing and for how long when you finally…?
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 What had you been doing?
• Work in pairs.
• Ask your partner questions about what he/she had been doing before/when some events happened.
Production 1 • Use the questions you have prepared and add others.
• Give further details in your answers. Expand on your answers. Ask follow-up questions too.

A: What had you been doing before you B: Oh! Before I entered UPC, I had been
entered UPC? studying at school. What about you?

Language bank
Language bank
I had been…for…
What had you been doing before you …?
I had been … before …
What had you been doing and for how
I had been … when… finally…
long when you finally…?
My parents/sister/brother had also been…

14 minutes

pairwork

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 What had you been doing?

Share some of your questions here.

Feedback Also, tell us what you learned about your partner.

5 minutes

whole class

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 Sequencing words
Oh, no! One day…
After that, …
• Read this story divided in three parts. Then, I…
Pre • How can you finish the story? Later (on)…

production 2 But before all that…

Finally, …
In the end, …

6 minutes
Part 1: One day Tomas and Kevin were
driving in the mountains. They had
whole class been driving for several hours and
were near the edge of the cliff when
suddenly Kevin heard something. He
said, “Oh, no!”
Part 2: But it was too late.
Part 3: Finally, …
It was a car. Apparently the driver of
the oncoming vehicle had been
distracted. and hadn’t noticed the
curve in the road. Also he had been
driving too fast. He hit Tomas and
Kevin’s car.
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 Oh, no!
• Look at the pictures. What had the people been doing before the accidents happened?
Production 2 • Create short stories with your partner. Be ready to tell your stories to the class.

story 1

story 2

14 minutes

pairwork

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 Oh, no!

Tell us your stories.

Feedback

3 minutes

whole class

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Summary

Now I can…
talk about what people had been doing before a certain event in
the past occurred.

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Preparation for
next class

Reinforce Unit 6.
Do Grammar Practice component exercises.
Work on the Enrichment Practice component.

Study the Use of English file.

Check out the Practice Resources folder.

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Sources
 https://thenounproject.com/
 https://www.shutterstock.com/
 https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles-
espanol/credit
 http://iteslj.org/questions/movies.html
 English Discoveries Student platform

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