Activity 1. Place the flashcards on the board and say
a wrong sentence on purpose for each flashcard.
Teacher: She is eating spaghetti.
Students: No! She is eating a hamburger.
Activity 2. Show a flashcard and have the students do
the action and say the word. Do with as many flashcards as you can.
Students: dancing! Dancing! (as
they do the action).
Activity 3. Students
write a 3x3 Bingo board on their
notebooks. Place all the action flashcards on the board that you are working
on. Students choose 9 action words and write them on each square. Take away all
the flashcards from the board, mix them up and start calling the verb
flashcards as you show each one to the class. Students cross out the ones that
they have, the first student to do it shouts BINGO!
Activity 4. Place the eat flashcards on the board.
Designate a student a flashcard. Ask questions.
Teacher: Are you eating cake?
Student : Yes, I am.
Teacher: Am I eating ice cream?
Student : Yes, You are.
Activity 5. Make a grid on the board using the
flashcards.
Teacher: B2!
Student: Dancing. They are dancing.
Teacher: She is opening her locker.
Student: C3!
Activity 6. Relate the weather to the present continuous.
Teacher: It’s hot. What are they doing ?
Students: (pointing to each flashcard) He is roller skating. She is cutting her tree. He is
drinking a soda. He reading a book.
Write
a name next to each flashcard. Ask questions.
Teacher: It’s raining. What is Ken doing ?
Students: (pointing to each flashcard) He is walking.
Teacher: It’s snowing. Rose!
Students: skiing! She is
skiing.
Have
the children write sentences on their notebooks.
Activity 7. And
the time. Review the time with the flashcards as you place
them on the board.
Teacher: It’s eleven o’clock. What is Grandpa doing?
Students: He is planting flowers.
Teacher: It’s five o’clock. Who is walking the dog?
Students: Father is walking the dog.
Teacher: It’s nine o’clock. Is Sister writing?
Students: Yes, she is.
Activity 8. Family
Members are doing something.
Teacher: What is Father doing ?.
Students: He is drinking coffee.
Teacher: Who is walking ?.
Student 1: Aunt is walking.
Teacher: Is the baby sitting or standing?
Student 1: The baby is sitting on the floor.
Students
can bring personal photos and do a show and tell.
Activity 9. Routines.
Place the get up flashcard on the
board and mime getting up. Have the students mime getting up and say the
sentence: I am getting up. Continue
with more daily routines as you place the flashcards on the board.
Point
to each flashcard and ask questions.
Teacher: What is he doing?.
Student 1: He is making his bed.
Say
a name of a flashcard in random order and have a student come up and point to
it and say a sentence.
Teacher: take!
Student 1: He is taking a shower. (
pointing to the flashcard)
Activity 10. Place several flashcards on the board and
write the questions words:
Who, What; Where?
Teacher: CLIMB!
Students: Where is he climbing?
Teacher: He is climbing in Bolivia.
Students: Who is he climbing?
Teacher: Peter is climbing in Bolivia.
Students: What is he doing?
Teacher: He is climbing a mountain in Bolivia.
Have
the students write questions on their notebooks.
Activity 11. Collocations.
Place three flashcards on the board.
Teacher: What are they doing ?
Students: They are sitting.
Teacher: Where is he sitting ?
Students: He is sitting on a bench. (write on a bench)
Continue
with the other two. Tell students that adding words to a verb gives more
details to a sentence in Present Continuous.
Activity 12. Now, place only one flashcard on the
board. I used studying. Have the students dictate words to make more sentences.Create a mind map on the board.
Students: Math!
Teacher: She is studying Math.
Activity 12. TOWN.Make
sentences using a town location. I made pairs of a place and a verb. Make
sentences.
Teacher: They are running in the park.
Students: Where are they running ?
Teacher: sitting!
Students:Bank!
Activity 13. But transportation has its own verbs. Present ride, drive and fly. Then once again do
collocations.
Teacher: Ride!
Students: ride a bike, ride a taxi, ride a motorcycle
Continue
with drive and fly.
Students
can add more words for any verb.
Student: ride a jeep!
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