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Present Continuous Tense. It has 3 parts: to be + infinitive + -ing It is used to talk about:. Ideas how to teach:. 1)Index cards describing funny family activities to be dramatized by 3-5 students, to be labeled by class. 2)What is she/he doing?
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Present Continuous Tense It has 3 parts: to be + infinitive + -ing It is used to talk about: Ideas how to teach: 1)Index cards describing funny familyactivities to be dramatized by 3-5 students, to be labeled by class. 2)What is she/he doing? 3)Compare with Future Simple (as a promise) 4)Verb Tense Study (K. Clark) 5) Grammar Chants by Carolyn Graham 6) E: Practice spelling 7)What are your parents doing now? 8)Current events in your country 9)Guess where it’s happening. 10)Select and describe a photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson. • 1)Now: What are my kids doing now? • 2)Future personal plans: I am feeding my son at 4 pm. • 3)Describe a picture:The baby is glaring at me. • 4)Anger: Why are you constantly texting? • 5)Prediction: It’s going to rain.
Present Simple Tense B & I: It is used to talk about Ideas to teach 1. Verb Tense Study (K. Clark) 2. Grammar Chants by Carolyn Graham. 3. Focus on 3rd person singular –S (He, she, it eats) 4. Logical questions (Ana often goes there. Where does she go?) 5. E: Write 10 things that your family does every day and 10 things that they don’t do. 6. Dramatize a mini-story. 7. There is/there are 8. Compare with Present Continuous • 1) Regular, repeated actions: I go to school. • 2)A characteristic: She is pretty. • 3)To tell a story (a series of actions): There is a family. In the family, there is a father, a boy and a wolf...) • 4)Universal truth: The U.S. is in North America. • 5)Future public events (schedules): AIMS is in February. • 6) “Now” with mental verbs or verbs of sense perception: I love you! Do you know that? –I see it.
Past Simple Tense It is used to talk about Ideas to teach Make a book on verb tenses Identify patterns in irregular verbs conjugation and make up cards. Spend time memorizing them. Practice with a partner at the board Logical questions (I got a most amazing gift yesterday.– What did you get?) Interrupt me with questions Frenzy Fly swatter E: Timeline about your life B & I: A power point, prezi, i-movie or digital story about a historical event. B: Questionnaire and narrative “How I Came to the U.S.” Book “Coming to America” Where and when were you born? –chain Q&A a past action, when time of the action is important, so there is usually a time indicator: • At 3 o’clock, at night, at midnight • On October 26, on Saturday, on my birthday, on a cold day • In the last few days, in 2012 • Ago, last, yesterday, the day before yesterday
Present Perfect Tense It is used to talk about Ideas how to teach Thought-provoking questions on small cards to ask around (E.g., How many times have you been in love?) Tag questions Practice 3 forms of irregular verbs (Class, stand up, name 3 forms quickly, sit down if you can’t) Use in an essay that is mostly present. Compare with Past Simple and Present Perfect Continuous “Madness” by Muse—how many tenses do you hear? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhvtRykqpQk Human sentences Human tic-tac-toe Chain questions: How long have you lived in the U.S.? And you? How long have you known your best friend? Dictation: a whole paragraph in present tenses, e.g. about Adel with her song. Analyze and explain the tenses. • a past action, whose result (vs. time) is important in the present. Often with “yet, already, lately, recently, just, since, never, ever, always” and other adverbs of frequency. • He hasn’t come to school sincehis family moved. • In AE it is often replaced withPast Simple, as it sounds more formal. • As Present Perfect Continuous with non-continuous verbs: How long have you been married?
Present Perfect Continuous Tense It is used to talk about Ideas how to teach 1)Show striking pictures and ask, “What have they been doing?” 2)Penny Uhr Grammar Activities 3) Pronunciation practice for the contractions “I’ve been…” “He’s been…” 4)Use class situations, e.g., Why is Ricardo’s face so red? 5)”Lonely Boy”—what has the man been doing? • an action that began in the past and either just finished or still continues. I have been learning English for 50 years. How long have you been teaching?
Future Simple Tense It is used Ideas to how teach 1. Compare with the much more common Present Continuous 2. Write a few predictions about your future—in 5 years, in 10 years, in 20, etc.—e.g., on Edmodo, both affirmative and negative. 3. Listen to “I Promise,” sing along. 4. B & I: Conditional clauses, real condition; conjunctions “if, unless, in case, provided,” chain Q&A • 1. to promise (I will help you.) • 2. to predict (It probably won’t rain.) • 3. to decide on the spot (--What are you taking? --I’ll have pizza.)
Past Continuous Tense It is used to talk about Ideas how to teach Verb tense chart Compare with Past Simple • A past action that was taking place AT a moment or FROM …TO/TILL…. a certain time. • When Ivan entered the ballroom, we were dancing. At 6 o’clock yesterday I was filing the ILLPs.
Past Perfect Tense It is used to talk about Ideas how to teach Review 3 verb forms drawing the students’ attention to past participles. Compare with other past tenses Human tic-tac-toe: Finish sentences, e.g., “When the compromise was achieved, ….” “From July till September, the government….” • an action that had finished before a moment or another action in the past. • Often with prepositions and/or conjunctions “by, before, after, when,by the time” • The snow had melted by March. When we landed,I had written 10 emails.
Past Perfect Continuous Tense It is used to talk about Ideas how to teach Place all the tenses on a timeline. • a past action that had continued and finished before a moment or another actionin the past. • It is often used with the preposition “for” and prepositions and/or conjunctions “by, before, after, when, by the time”: • I had been travelling formany years before I movedto the U.S.
Future Continuous Tense It is used to talk about Ideas how to teach Make predictions/write conditional questions and answers to your classmates’ questions in Edmodo. • an action that will be taking place at a moment or fora certain period of timein the future. • I will be testing a new electronic device the entire next week.
Future Perfect Tense It is used to talk about Ideas how to teach 1.Practice 3 verb forms, e.g., with Frenzy. 2. Compare with other future tenses. 3. Practice pronunciation of the contraction. • an action that will have been completed beforea moment or anotheraction in the future. • I will have eaten lunch by11 am. • prepositions and/or conjunctions “by, before, when, by the time.”
