hi again everbody,
I need help for two things and I hope you can make some suggestions for me.
The first one is that this Tuesday I will have a lesson at METU College and I am supposed to be teaching Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses. I will not have a presentation part but only practice and production activities and make the students see the difference between these two tenses. so if you know any good activity to emphasize the difference, can you share it with me? But please be quick if you help me, because as I said it is for Tuesday morning:(
The second one is that I have a three diamentional audio and I want to share it with you but I cannot apload it. Is there anyone who knows what I should do?
"To teach is to learn twice." Joseph Joubert
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5 comments:
neşecim
about this simple present and present cont issue. the teacher, can make use of some mechanical exersices to give these two tenses together. the studetns will make the difference by means of the time expresiions. but it is a traditional way. so I dont suggest it. you should make it more communicative I think.
if you dont have to give these two tenses at the same time, you can conduct some communicative activites seperately for each one.
for present cont, comes to mind such a thing. for example you can pandomim an action ( I mean act out a verb) and ask the class "what am I doing now?" the studetns guess what you are doing. then you can give opportunity to every student to pantomime an action and let others guess it. it would be fun for the students because they are mostly kinesthetic learners at this age. but I dont think we can use the same activity for simple present. maybe somthing similar.
for it you can choose another activity maybe.
thats all that comes to my mind for now.
Neşecim,
Why don't you make a demonstration in the classroom! Just an idea: Think of recipes you know :) For example, you can show them how to make a sandwich in the classroom. While preparing the food, you keep telling them what you are doing right now. Meanwhile, you can ask questions in simple present tense in order to learn their habits or preferences.
For instance, you may say: "I'm peeling the tomato right now...I'm cutting it into pieces..By the way, do you like to eat tomatoes? When do you usually eat them, at breakfast, lunch or dinner? What time do you have your breakfast/lunch/dinner?" etc..
If you can arrange, it'll be a better idea to make this demonstration with the students. I mean, you may want them to bring the necessary material and make their own sandwich.
Good luck!!!
Byeee
First of all, thanks for your suggestions Derya and Sibel Hocam.
Sibel hocam, it is a great activity and I will keep it in mind. However, it is more suitable for presentation part I think while we are giving the students some input. I need an activity where students can practice and produce Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses. But thanks again.
I had my lesson yesterday and I want to share my activities with you (blogs are not only for asking some help:)) It was very good overall. For production activity I had a mechanical exercise where students were to choose between these two tenses and rewrite the sentences. The enjoyable and effective production activity made the lesson very effective and colorful. It was a game and I had a picture like a game board. I divided the class into two parts and chose a student from one of the groups. The student chosen came to the board, rolled the dice and forwarded on the game board according to the dice. Once s/he came on one of the pictures, s/he tried to guess what is being done in the picture using Present Continuous Tense. When s/he could say it correctly, s/he asked a question related to everyday life to one of his/her group members. For example, s/he first said “She is dancing.” and asked one of the friends “Do you like dancing?” When s/he could do all of these correctly, s/he chose one of his/her group members to continue. If s/he could not form a sentence and a question, the other group took turn.
Neşe,
It sounds great. I guess students liked the activities and were volunteer to participate. Thanks for sharing your teaching experience with us. I wish you would have posted it on your blog. I mean not as a comment. You may still publish a post on it, so many people can read it.
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