TEFL FULLCIRCLE WWW.TEFLFULLCIRCLE.COM ACTIVITY GUIDE FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AS A

TEFL FULLCIRCLE WWW.TEFLFULLCIRCLE.COM ACTIVITY GUIDE FOR TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Grammar Activities • The Present 1 • The Past 4 • The Future 6 Vocabulary Activities 8 Phonology Activities 10 Speaking Activities 11 Writing Activities 13 Listening Activities 14 Reading Activities 16 TABLE OF CONTENTS Grammar Activities • The Present 01 Let’s have a look at the Present Form and Use and then some activities to use in the Practise and Production stages. Below is a reminder of all the forms, uses and examples of the Present Tense: TENSE FORM PRESENT USE EXAMPLES Present Simple Subject + Present Form of the Verb Don't / Doesn't + Verb Facts, Generalizations and Universal Truths Habits and Routines Events that are certain Arrangement like timetables Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. He leaves for school every morning at 6am. I live in Chiang Mai. The train leaves at 3pm. • I don't live in London. • The train doesn't leave at 3pm. • Does the train leave at 3pm? • Do you live in Chiang Mai? NEGATIVE Do/Does QUESTION Present Continuous Subject + Present of "to be” + Present Participle of Verb or "ing" Is not / Isn't and Are not /Aren't Present Actions Temporary Actions Future arrangements and plans Trends Irritations Jack is talking with friends. Jack is working as a waiter in the summer holidays. We are going to Vietnam next week. Thailand is getting wealthier each year. Jack is always speaking negatively. Thailand isn't getting wealthi- er each year. Are you going away next week? NEGATIVE Is / Are QUESTION PRESENT SIMPLE Presenting the Present Simple requires you to remind students of the "s" or "es" in the third person or he/she/it part. • Practise: Gap Fill Activities We use the Present simple for an action that happens generally. You can also teach adverbs of frequen- cy with the Present Simple. • Always • Frequently • Usually • Seldom/Rarely • Nowadays • Never • Every week/year • Sometimes/Occasionally • From time to time • Every now and then For example, I go to the supermarket every week. • Production Ideas: Hobbies/Routines/Preferences A great activity is to put students into pairs and get them to ask each other what they do in their free time or after school/work or what kind of food they like or dislike. Or what their routine is for the day. • What is your daily routine? I get up at 7 am. • What do you do in the morning? I go to school. • What do you do after school? I always go home. 02 Present Perfect Continuous Subject + Present form "to have” + been + Present Participle of Verb or "ing" Has not / Hasn't and Have not / Haven't Actions that started in the pastand continue tothe present Actions that have recently stopped Temporary situations He has been writing a book for 2 years. I have been waiting for you for about an hour. I thought you said 3 pm. We have been living in Penang for a month. He hasn't been waiting for an hour, he only got there a minute ago. Have you been living here long? NEGATIVE Have / Has QUESTION Present Perfect Subject + Present of "to have” + Past Participle of Verb Has not / Hasn't Actions which happened at an unknown time Actions in the past which have an efect on the present Actions that begin in the past and continue into the present I have eaten my Dinner. He has finished his shift. He has worked as a Teacher for 10 years. He hasn't worked for 2 years. NEGATIVE Has / Have QUESTION Have you eaten dinner yet? PRESENT CONTINUOUS This tense describes an action that is happening right now or around the time of speaking. • Present Continuous Activities: • Make a list of what you are wearing. • Spot the diference. PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE The connection between the past and the present. • Present Perfect Simple Activities: • Experiences and achievements in the past. PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS The Present Perfect Continuous is used for recent changes and for actions that go from the past into the present. • Present Perfect Continuous Activities: Use images or board work to show recent changes like a man running for bus. • Facts, Generalisations and Universal Truths Comparisons are a good way to practise the Present Simple. For example, I like ice-cream but I don't like peas. • Events that are certain to happen For example, When is your birthday? • Arrangements we can't change For example, Timetables. You can give your students a copy of a train timetable or bus timetable. • When does the train leave? • When does the bus leave? • It departs at 2pm and arrives at 3pm. • When does the flight leave? 03 • The Past Let’s have a look at the Past Forms and some activities you can use in the Practise and Production stages of the lesson. 04 TENSE FORM USE EXAMPLES Past Simple Subject + Past form of the Verb Events in the past which are now finished Something that happened in the past A series of events that happened inthe past We ate dinner about an hour ago. We lived in Penang last year. He boarded the plane and sat in Business Class. He didn't learn any Thai in the first few months. Did not / Didn't NEGATIVE Did you work there long? Did QUESTION Past Continuous Subject + Past form of "to be” + Present Participle of Verb or "ing" Was not / Wasn't and Were not / Weren't Duration in the Past Actions in progress at the same time in the past Irritation I was having a sleep when the telephone rang. I was cleaning the Kitchen while my wife was washing the car. She was always talking negatively about people. Polite Question I was wondering whether you could help me. The teacher asked when he wasn't working on his project. NEGATIVE Was / Were QUESTION Were you always good at running? Past Perfect Subject + Past form of "to have” + Past Participle of Verb Had not / Hadn't Completed action before another action in the past Reported speech Unhappy about the past. I had finished my work before I went running. He asked me whether I had ran the Marathon last year. I wished I had eaten more before the Test. Third Conditionals If Jack had worked harder he would have passed the exam. I hadn't read anything before the test. NEGATIVE Had QUESTION Had she ever swam before the competition? PAST 05 Past Perfect Continuous Subject + Past form of "to have” + been + Present Participle or "ing" Had not / Hadn't Duration of a past action up to a certain point in the past Looking at the cause of an action Third conditional Sentences They had been waiting for nearly an hour before the bus arrived. The road was slippery because it had been raining and it was hot. If I had been waiting in the right place I would have caught the right bus. Reported Speech He said that he had been waiting for ages before she arrived for the date. They hadn't been waiting long for the bus. NEGATIVE Had QUESTION How many years had you been waiting to get her into that school? PAST SIMPLE Actions that are finished in the past. You can use ago and last week/year/month to show when it happened. • Past Simple Activity: What did you do last summer/year/holiday? For example, I went to Vietnam and ate some really spicy food. It was wonderful. PAST CONTINUOUS A moment in the past. • Past Continuous Activity: Be A Detective Playing a Whodunit games with students is great. The students must come up with alibis in the past continuous. One action interrupted another one. For example, While I was doing the washing up there was a knock at the door. PAST PERFECT An action that happened in the past before something else happened in the past. • Past Perfect Simple Activities: Story Draw a story on the board explaining why Jack was tired. Use a sequence of events but tell them not to create a story in consecutive order. Use images/pictures or draw the events on the board. • Last night • James hurry • Ran out of petrol • No money left • Wallet stolen Last night, James had ran out of petrol because he had had his wallet stolen and he had run out of money. Also, try using a time line. PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS This is where 2 actions happened in the past but one happened before the other. • Past Perfect Continuous Activities: Sponsored walk They all arrived home tired and dirty because they had been walking a charity hike all day in the Yorkshire Dales. 15 • The Future Let’s have a look at the Future Forms and some activities you can use in the Practise uploads/Finance/ activity-guide-fullcircle.pdf

  • 27
  • 0
  • 0
Afficher les détails des licences
Licence et utilisation
Gratuit pour un usage personnel Attribution requise
Partager
  • Détails
  • Publié le Jul 20, 2021
  • Catégorie Business / Finance
  • Langue French
  • Taille du fichier 0.5651MB