Teacher Guide
Explain that the students must write only one word in each gap. Review the simple past of common verbs, especially the verb 'to be' and some irregular verbs. Have them guess a word for each gap and them have them read the complete sentence back to you. Discuss it with them - does it sound natural? Is the word in the right form? Help them if they haven't found the right word.
At the end, have them read the complete passage out loud, to become familiar with the correct phrases used. Make a note if there were any they found difficult and remember to review those words in future lessons and insert them into classroom conversation so they can become familiar with how they are used.
It's useful to review the past continuous form.
10mins: Introduction: Speaking practice - Show (using speaking help cards) or draw a series of four pictures where the action of the people is changing from frame to frame. Have the students describe what they are seeing in the images, focusing on the correct use of present continuous, colours, nouns and prepositions.
05mins - Review the online homework. What topics were discussed? Was the homework easy, medium or difficult? Answer any questions the students may have.
15mins - Activity: Introduce a topic, such as vegetables. Have the students think up as many ways to describe the topic as possible. Ex: you eat them, you can cook them, broccoli is an example of a vegetable, they are often green. Write some phrases on the board that may be useful in describing objects, such as: 'you can....with this/these.''It's/they're made of...' 'It's/They're often/very (adj)' 'They're like/They look like...' 'you find this in/at...'. Provide another topic, and ask students to create descriptions with the phrases on the board. Now ask students to try to guess what you are describing.
15mins - Worksheet: 29 reading practice - part 1 - Review the answers.
10mins - Test: 29 writing practice - part 2 - Review the answers.
05mins - Warm down: goodbye see you next time
00mins - Homework: complete the next section of the online homework.
1) Discuss the differences in text style (is it a diary, letter, etc.).
2) Students must only write one word.
3) Correct answers may depend on something said further back or ahead in the text.
4) Review: prepositions, articles, comparative structures, simple verbs and auxiliary verbs.
- uncle
- to
- were
- there
- said