Guideline: The Present
The teacher introduces the target language. Prompt some possible answers.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Use gestures, role-play and repetition all the time.
Level: False beginner
Warm-up: The Present
Class activity. The teacher introduces everyday activities and the times they take place.
Talkmor Suggestions:
The students need to listen carefully and practice the conversation.
Pay attention to pronunciation and grammar.
Duration: 10+ minutes
Level: False beginner
Main Activity 1: The Present
Class activity and pair-work. Different ways to express time.
Talkmor Suggestions:
The students learn how to express time by using ‘nearly, almost, after, past, before, after’.
Pair-work. The students practice the conversations.
Duration: 10+ minutes
Level: False beginner
Main Activity 2: The Present
Class Activity. Introduction of Adverbs of Frequency.
Talkmor Suggestions:
The students make sentences using adverbs of frequency.
Duration: 5+ minutes
Level: False beginner
Main Activity 3: The Present
Reading passage. The teacher reads to the students.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Individual activity. The students need to listen carefully and complete the missing adverbs of frequency.
The students read their written sentences to the teacher.
Duration: 5+ minutes.
Level: False beginner
Main Activity 4: The Present
Pair-work. Read and repeat.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Pair-work. One student reads a few sentences. The other student needs to repeat the sentences.
Duration: 10 minutes.
Level: False beginner
Warm-down: The Present
Group work.
Talkmor Suggestions:
Students ask each other questions and report back in the third-person speech.
Duration: 5-10 minutes.
Level: False beginner
