1B

Find out who

Activity type: Writing and speaking – Mingle and report back – Whole class / Pairs
Aim: To practise using the present perfect simple and progressive
Language: Present perfect simple and progressive – Use at any point from 1.2.
Preparation: Copy and cut up enough cards for each learner to have two Simple and two
Progressive cards. Keep them in separate piles.
Time: 30 minutes

1 Ask learners to put down their pens, sit back and relax. Read aloud the following
prompts, pausing for 30 seconds or so between each one. Learners listen and think
of answers, but don’t write. Tell them not to worry if they can’t think of an answer
for every prompt.
Think of:
 a film you’ve seen at least three times.
 an interesting person whom you’ve known for less than a year.
 a website you’ve been visiting a lot recently.
 a place you’ve always wanted to visit.
 something you’ve been collecting for some time.
 something you’ve hated since you were very young.
 a product you’ve been using regularly for more than a year.
 something you’ve never done but would really like to do.
 a TV programme you’ve been watching since the very first episode.
 something you’ve been doing a lot in your free time recently.
 a book you’ve been reading recently.
 something you’ve done once and will never do again.
2 Write or elicit some example sentences on the board to remind learners of the
present perfect simple and progressive forms:
have + past participle
I’ve always wanted to visit New Zealand.
have been + -ing form
Recently, I’ve been playing a lot of tennis.
Give each learner two Simple and two Progressive cards. Learners write one present
perfect simple/progressive sentence on each card, using ideas from Stage 1.
3 Collect all the cards and place them face down in a pile. Learners come and take one
card from the pile, then mingle, asking each other questions to find out who wrote the
sentence on their card. They shouldn’t read it aloud or show it to anybody. Once they’ve
found the writer, they hand over the card and ask a few follow-up questions. If they pick
a card that they wrote, they should replace it in the pile and take another card.
Demonstrate the activity in open class, ideally using a sentence you know the writer
of, so you can ‘find’ them after a few attempts.
Learners then pick up another card from the pile and repeat. By the end of the game,
all the cards should have been restored to the people who wrote them.

Language note
You may also want to remind learners of the question forms for the present perfect simple
and progressive. Use your example sentences from Stage 2 to elicit:
Have you always wanted to visit New Zealand?
Have you been playing a lot of tennis recently?

4 To round off the activity, pairs tell each other what they found out about other
learners in the class.

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