Archive for the ‘present continuous’ Category

Did you know that what you dream about can tell you what will happen in your classes? Try reading the descriptions below and in Part One to find something you have dreamed about, and then write it in the aims section of your observed lesson’s lesson plan…

What animals in your dreams tell you about your future lessons:

A dog/ a moose - you will have an exceedingly ugly student with a crush on you
 
Horses - you will be distracted from your grammar explanations etc. by a student’s extremely odd teeth

Cats- One of your students will start singing along unprompted when you do Tom’s Diner in your Present Continuous lesson

A flying bird- You will escape TEFL

Rats- The management of your school will leave as they find out about the financial problems in the company, without telling any of the teachers

Parrots - Too much drilling will make your students repeat everything you say, including questions and game instructions
 
Ants - Your boss will introduce even more paperwork aimed at standardizing lessons
 
Bees/ wasps - Your seemingly happy students will complain about too many games in the end of term feedback sheets
 
Bears- One student will be so disgusted by the chest hair showing when you wear an open collar shirt that they will ask to change classes
 
Hyenas - A student with a loud laugh that distracts the other groups will join the class

1. Present Continuous picture differences
Students describe their pictures to each other and try to find differences. These can either be a single picture that is changed with Tippex or Photoshop to have differences in it, or two completely different pictures. If the pictures are completely different and so differences are easier to find, get students to compete with other pairs to find as many as they can in a fixed time period.

2. Present Continous picture similarities
If you have two completely different pictures, it is more challenging for students to find any small similarities between them rather than differences as in the game above, e.g. “A man is standing up” (more…)

Couple of other nice little game based worksheets (though I say so myself) to liven up your accountants:

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheet-common-business-english-verbs-present-simple-present-continuous/

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheet-politeness-competition-game-requests-indirect-language/

And if you can see an accountant smile once a week you know you have made the world a better place….