ACTIONS NOW

UNIT: 2 Actions in progress.

Aim: Students will be able to give and obtain information about possessions and to describe actions that are in progress at the moment of speaking.

Describing what people are doing

Purpose: To produce questions with appropriate intonation when asking actions in progress.

Teacher asks a questions to the group. What are the verbs that begin with letter a ?

Find the verbs in the following link:

http://mansioningles.com/

Check answers around the class.

Mimes

Guess what I am doing. ( Mime these activities ) .

making a sandwich, drinking tea, making pizza, driving a car, using a computer, doing the dishes, eating fish, washing my hair, waiting for a bus, eating a boiled egg, watching football on TV, doing sums.

Work in two teams. Take turns to mime a continuous action for your group to guess.
Score a point if they can guess your mime within thirty seconds.

1. Listen and read.

Session 7

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2. Reflect on language.

Read the sentences and answer the questions.

She´s fixing the car. He´s cooking breakfast. They´re washing their clothes.
When are the actions happening?
a) in the past b) in the future c) now

3. In groups of three, role-play a dialogue similar to the one in exercise 1.

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Learning the Present Continuous Tense

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5. Complete the crossword.

C:\Users\Usuario Principal\Documents\Presprog.html

6. Students describe the pictures and predict what the song is about.

Play the song



7. They use what they learnt.

8. Write an e-mail to Sergio.
message
Hi, my name is Sergio! What are you doing at the moment? I´m having a snack and listening to my favorite music. Write to me.
Hi, my name´s Sam! I´m watching my favorite TV show...