Irregular verbs / Present Perfect simple

27 Fevereiro 2019, 12:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

1) Correcting written assignment: Writing a summary of the short story “Eye Witness” by Ed McBain

2) Miming game contest: 15 cards with irregular verbs: creep, read, flee, throw, swim, sit, etc. The class had to guess the verb. The first student who got the answer wrote the three forms of the verb on the white board.

3) Grammar: Pair work activity: Exercise 20.2. Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell: Vocabulary in Use. Elementary. , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 45.

4) Present Perfect Simple: Handout: Sts had to form the rules based on bunches of example sentences: 1) He has given her a kiss. Now she is pregnant/

I’ve lost my key. I can’t open the door/She has broken her arm. So she can’t help you. 2) Difference between present and past: She has just left.

But: She left just now. 3) Have you been to England?/Have you ever tried eating bread and butter with sugar?/Have you ever read Ulysses by James Joyce? 5) already, yet, still 6) adverbs and conjuncts: recently, lately, for, since, just, today, this month

5) Grammar: pair work activity: Exercises on Present Perfect Simple (Unit 7, 8) in Raymond Murphy: Grammar in Use, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

 

Homework:

Exercises: 20.3, 20.4, 2.5. Michael McCarthy and Felicity O'Dell: Vocabulary in Use. Elementary. Unit 20, page 45.