Describing what people are doing

Title: Teaching Grammar

Gulzhainar Umralina
English Language Instructor
Training Center
Kazakhstan, Aktobe

Vocabulary: ‘Clothes’, ‘Appearance’
Grammar: Present Continuous
Level: Beginner-Elementary
Age group: Teens - Adults
Time/duration: 60 min.
Resources required: See attachments to download worksheets

PROCEDURE

Warm up
Mime the activity for students to guess what is he/she doing, e.g. he is swimming, she is playing tennis, etc. (strips of papers)

Pre-activity

1. Match the pictures with the description of people.
2. Listen to the conversation and write the name in the correct place.

Activity

1. Look at the picture and say what people are doing in the picture.
2. Spot the differences.
3. Look at pictures A and B and find the differences in picture B using the sentences in the Present Continuous
4. Look at the pictures and write what people are doing.

Post activity

1. ‘Draw a sentence.’ Work in groups. Strips of papers.
   A student from one group chooses a sentence in the Present Continuous and reads it silently. Then he/she comes to his/her group to mime/show a sentence. The students try to guess a sentence and write it on the paper and read it aloud. The second group is keeping the time of two minutes. Then they swap the roles. The group with the most correct sentences are the winners.
2. Describe peoples’ appearances and say what they are doing. ( pictures, posters )
3. ‘Find a pair’
   Go round the room until the teacher says ‘stop and find your pair’, stand back to back to your partner and describe what he/she is wearing.

Downloads:

• Worksheet 1 Miming (doc).
• Worksheet 2 Spot the difference (jpeg)
• Worksheet 3 Verb game (jpeg)

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