Teacher Guide
The students need to read the text and choose a word from the options provided to fill each gap. After helping them to complete the text, have them read it out loud and ask which words seem to fit naturally for them, and which don't. Help them to understand the words that are less familiar to them, and give other example sentences of how they are commonly used.
10mins - Introduction: What is one exciting thing you have done in your life? How was this different than anything else? Do you hope to do it again someday?
05mins - Review the online homework. What topics were discussed? Was the homework easy, medium or difficult? Answer any questions the students may have.
05mins - Review: Present Perfect - We use the present perfect to discuss an action that has been completed in the past but is still relevant now. Ex: I have been to Paris. When we use the present perfect, we do not mention the specific time something occurred, however, we do use time indicators for emphasis such as: since, for, already, yet, still, never, ever, before. The present perfect can also be used to discuss an event that happened in the past, continues to the present, and may continue into the future. Ex: I have lived in Athens for two years.
10mins - Activity: I haven't done: Each student starts with five points. The first student must say something that they haven't done. If the other students have done what the student has just said then they lose a point. Continue around in a circle until you have a winner.
10mins - Worksheet: 14 present perfect
15mins - Practice Test: 14 reading practice - part 4
05mins - Warm down: what will you do this weekend?
00mins - Homework: Complete the next section of the online homework.
1) Skim read the text for general meaning.
2) Without looking at the answers, think of a word that fits in the gap.
3) Then re-read each sentence and choose the correct answer.
4) After choosing an answer, check the other two answers and decide why they're wrong.
5) Review verb forms, pronouns and determiners.
- B - possible
- A - manager
- B - wanted
- C - choose
- C - filling
- C - explore