This is a great lesson for reviewing the past and present perfect tenses.
Level: Elementary/Pre-intermediate adults
Materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW2JsQyqJl8, This presentation and its links, fly swatters, mini-whiteboards and markers, string, tablets/laptops, wifi, dice
Pre-class: Check the internet and technology works, its sods law that it won't.
Warmer: Spiders web - students stand in a circle. Teacher gets a ball of string and holds one end. The teacher throws the ball to a student creating a line of string. Teacher asks the student with the ball a question. The student answers and throws the ball while holding onto their part of the string and asks the next student a question. Repeat until the ball of string has formed a web and the other end is in a students hands.Try to keep questions in present perfect and past tenses try to make them personal.
Lead-in: When students are sat back down ask them 'Have you ever been on an adventure?' Get them to talk to their partners.
Next show them the video and ask them do you want to go on this adventure?
Vocabulary: Meaning - Show students the vocabulary with matching pictures. Answer any questions your students may have. Next show students the list of words and get them to define the words. When they have finished talking get them to come up 1 by 1 to write a definition the board for each word.
Form - Circle writing race: Show students the pictures without the words and get students to write the words on mini whiteboards. Students work in teams and each student must only write 1 letter each.
Pronunciation (optional) - Drilling followed by Slap and shout!: Students work in pairs and slap the desk with the fly swatter when they see the picture. The first person to slap the desk shouts the word. Any prior drilling should be done in a number of registers and be choral, group, and individual.
Reading: Gist - Students use their tablets/laptops to read the mini article on the link and answer the gist question. Give students 1 - 2 minutes
Specific information - Students answer the true and false questions on the next slide.
Grammar - Students read and find 1 example of present perfect simple, 1 of past simple, and 1 of past continuous. Students must match them to the timelines.
Pronunciation: Past tense regular sounds - Students are presented with the 3 phonemes used in regular past. Spend a short time eliciting these. Students work in pairs. They will see and hear the words on the slides below. and must write the correct phoneme. Fastest pair wins a point.
Dice game: Get a dice and on 1 and 3 write /d/ on 2 and 4 write /t/ finally on 5 and 6 write /id/. Students role the dice and must say a past tense verb with the sound the dice lands on.
Speaking: Sushi line - Students are given numbers 1-2. 1s. They stand in two opposing lines facing each other and a re presented with some questions. They must try to share their answers for 30 seconds. Students then share with the class. Move line 1 clockwise after each question so each person has a new partner.
Follow this with some quick error correction.
Homework: Students watch the film at home and next class share the story, and whether they liked the film or not.
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