Teacher Guide
10mins - Introduction: What did you do last weekend? Do you often do the same activities on the weekends? Do you prefer to see your friends or spend time with your family? (Practice the verb in the simple past.)
05mins - Review homework. Discuss any questions or problems.
10mins - Activity: Activity: Excuses (present continuous review) Split the class into two teams. One team asks a question using "Why can't you (infinitive)." The other team must respond with an excuse. "I can't (infinitive) because I'm (present continuous). Continue alternating between teams until there is a repeat. The team who repeats is eliminated, and the remaining team is the winner!
E.g. 'Why can't you do your homework?'
'I can't do my homework because I'm watching T.V.'
10mins - Simple Past: Review - irregular verb spelling test - take, read, laugh, try, buy, think, say, make, find, eat, go, be - ask students to write the correct spelling for each verb in the PAST.
10mins - Worksheet: 08 present + past - finish for homework
15mins - Test: 08 reading practice - part 1
05mins - Warm down: goodbye see you next time, points
00mins - Homework: Complete the next section of the online homework.
Left side matches:
- listen - listened
- wait - waited
- ask - asked
- look - looked
- laugh - laughed
- show - showed
- spell - spelt
- see - saw
- eat - ate
Right side matches:
- say - said
- need - needed
- tell - told
- play - played
- take - took
- work - worked
- get - got
- make - made
- point - pointed
- find - found