"Been there. Done that" - Present Perfect / Past Simple Contrast + Game

You are going to

• practise the present perfect to talk about things you have done in your life
• use the past simple to give extra details about when / where / why you did it
• play a game to practise the present perfect / past simple

1) Discuss
A) How do we make the present perfect?
Answer - highlight below
The present perfect  = Have / Has  (‘ve / ‘s ) + Participle


B) Look at these verbs.
What are the participles?

 

Answers - highlight below
been  broken  caught  dressed  eaten  failed  found  flown  lost  met  played  ridden  sailed  seen  sung  skied  slept  swum  visited  won 



C) Present Perfect and Past Simple. What's the difference?

1. Which tense do we use to talk about something we have done in our lives (but when is not important)?
2. Which tense do we use to give extra information about the action (when / where / why...)?

Answers. Highlight below
Present Perfect - I have run in a marathon.
Past Simple - I ran in the marathon last year.






2) Speak
A) Look at the presentation and make and answer the questions in the present perfect.
You can answer the follow-up questions in the past simple

Have you ever...? - Present Perfect from David Mainwood

B) Now do the matching exercise

4) Speak / Play a game
What have you done?

1. Think of some things you have done in your life.
2. Write 8 sentences in the present perfect about things you have done. Can you think of anything that (in your class) ONLY YOU have done.

For example;
I've been to New York.
I've swum 400m
I've run in a marathon

Play the  "I'm the only one" game. 

1. Everyone says a sentence in the present perfect. You win a point if you have done something that no one else in the class has done.
2. Win another point if you say when or where you did it in the past simple.

The person or pair with the most points is the winner.





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The Mystery Person Game - Past Simple

You are going to 

• play a revision game
• look at some pictures and practise the past simple
• write about someone's life using the past simple

1) Before you play. Check
Do you know the past simple form of these verbs?

Be  Break  Brush  Buy  Can  Clean  Cut  Do  Drink  Drive  Eat  Fly  Go  Have  Learn  Like  Listen  Lose  Play  Ride  See  Send  Speak  Study  Swim  Talk  Travel  Use  Visit  Watch  Wear  Write





2) Play
Game Instructions.
Someone has disappeared. You have to make sentences using the past simple about the person's life using the pictures as prompts.

1. Decide if the "mystery person" is a man or a woman (He or She)
2. Click the page forward.
3. Make sentences about the photos in the past simple.
4. Continue. Play in teams. You can get a point for each correct sentence. Some photos can have more than one sentence so you can win more points for each one you make.

The Mystery Person - What did he do? Past Simple from David Mainwood

Download the ppt here





3) Write
What can you remember about the mystery person?
Give him or her a name and write about them. You can invent new information.
What happened to him or her? Why did he or she disappear?





4) More Practice

1. Look at the sentences in the ppt presentation
2. Say each sentence in the past
3. Make the question in the past.
4. Click to continue

Say the sentences and questions in the past simple from David Mainwood


Download the ppt here





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The Rolling Question Game

(Beg.s > Pre-Int)

You are going to  

• play a revision game
• practise and revise vocabulary by answering questions

Teacher's note. I uploaded this here as, along with the Rolling Word Game here,  it has been very popular with my younger classes.
You can start or finish at any point depending on the level of the class. The questions are more or less ordered according to level from beginners vocab through to prepositions, present continuous, simple past, comparatives  etc


Instructions

1. Throw 1 or 2  dice.
2. Click the page forward according to the number on the dice.
3. Answer the questions
4. Continue. Play in teams. You can get a point for each correct answer. More points can be given if the answer requires more information.

Rolling question game from David Mainwood

Download as ppt file here

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Past Continuous / Past Simple (Revision Quiz)

You are going to 

• revise the difference between the past continuous and the past simple.
• look at some gif images and make sentences using the correct tense

 
Go here to revise

1. Past Continuous (with gifs)  
2. Past Simple / Past Continuous (with gif images) 

Do the quiz.
Write the correct sentences for each image.
Be careful of spelling and don't forget full stops.
The gif images may sometimes be slow to display.depending on your connection speed.








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Jump and Slide 2 (Quiz Game - Elementary)

An elementary level quiz game to practise making questions

Individuals or teams see an answer and must ask the correct question.
A version for beginners is here Jump and Slide (Quiz Game - Beginners / Elem)
A pre-intermediate version is here Jump and Slide 3 (Quiz Game - Pre-Int) 

Students should see the questions / answers "board" projected on an interactive whiteboard (if so they can come out and "touch" the numbers to play) or on a screen.
Students could also play it on tablets if available.


Note
1) You can download the "board" below and print it as A3. Teams throw a dice, land on a square and answer the corresponding question. If correct, they move a piece (as in a traditional snakes and ladders style game) until they arrive at the "end".

2) Or you can do it as revision quiz without the board
It can be downloaded as a ppt file below and adapted.

See below for game instructions



Board
This image can be downloaded below for printing.

Play

1. Click anywhere to start
2. Throw a dice. 
3. Move your piece. 
4. When you land on a square (on your printed sheet), click on the number in the game below and ask the right question. 
5. Click again anywhere on the screen to see if your answer is correct.
6. Click the blue triangle (bottom right) to go back to the home "game" page.
7. Continue until you reach the end.

Downloads
Game sheet is jpg here (right click and "save as") or word doc here
A version of the game as a ppt file is here

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments section below




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What are they doing? - Quiz Game

You are going to

• play a game.
• practise gerunds and present continuous 

Note -  This game can be downloaded as a ppt file below. The ppt version can be done as a class game and the gap-fill version could then be done individually to practise spelling. It can also be done after looking at this post here - Present Continuous (with gif images)



1) Discuss
How many action verbs can you think of?
Say them with -ing
eg stand = standing, jump = jumping...
Act them



Look at the penguins. What are they doing?

 









2) Play the game
Now look at the questions below. What are they doing?
How many can you answer correctly?
(The gif images may sometimes be slow to display.depending on your connection speed.)

Download activity as ppt file here




3) Play
Do a mime of one of the verbs
Who can guess what you are doing?





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Jump and Slide (Quiz Game - Beginners / Elem)

A beginners quiz game to practise making questions

Individuals or teams see an answer and must ask the correct question.
An elementary version is here Jump and Slide 2 (Quiz Game - Elementary)
A pre-intermediate version is here Jump and Slide 3 (Quiz Game - Pre-Int) 

Students should see the questions / answers "board" projected on an interactive whiteboard (if so they can come out and "touch" the numbers to play) or on a screen.
Students could also play it on tablets if available.


Note
1) You can download the "board" below and print it as A3. Teams throw a dice, land on a square and answer the corresponding question. If correct, they move a piece (as in a traditional snakes and ladders style game) until they arrive at the "end".

2) Or you can do it as revision quiz without the board
It can be downloaded as a ppt file below and adapted.

See below for game instructions



Board
This image can be downloaded below for printing.

Play

1. Click anywhere to start
2. Throw a dice. 
3. Move your piece. 
4. When you land on a square (on your printed sheet), click on the number in the game below and ask the right question. 
5. Click again anywhere on the screen to see if your answer is correct.
6. Click the blue triangle (bottom right) to go back to the home "game" page.
7. Continue until you reach the end.

Downloads
Game sheet is jpg here (right click and "save as") or word doc here
The game as a ppt file is here

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments section below



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What is beauty?

You are going to

• discuss fashion, beauty and health
• practise words to describe people
• listen to someone talking about ideas of fashion, beauty and health

1) Discuss in pairs / write a list
In 60 seconds how many words can you think of which describe a person's appearance?
Make a note / write a list of them
eg tall, short...










2) Match
A) Choose the right category for each of the words below. Is it Build, Hair, Height or Opinion?







B) Now make a table and put all the words from the exercise and your list in the right column

Build	Hair	Height	Opinion
		tall

3) Discuss

• What is beauty?
• What makes someone beautiful or attractive?
• Where do we get our ideas of beauty from?
• Do ideas of beauty vary around the world?

4) Watch
Watch the clip "Food for Thought" below.
You are going to watch a woman called Mable talk about the first time she came to the UK.
A) Listen and answer

• Where does Mabel get her idea of beauty from?
• Why is she scared of coming to England?
• What does she learn about the British?

B) Watch again and fill in the gaps in the sentences

5) Discuss

• Why does Mabel think that beauty is what she sees in the magazines?
• What do you think “junk in the trunk” means? Junk = rubbish. Trunk (American) = the place where you put the bags in a car (boot in UK English). Can you guess what she means when describing people?
• Why do you think it is easier for an African to eat well and be healthy than for the British?
• Is it easy to eat healthily in your country? 
• Do you eat healthily?
• She says "the magazines show what the British want to look like."  Do you think this is true for all nationalities?
• Why do we want to look like the people in the magazines?
• Why does Mabel think she is lucky at the end?

6) Do the crossword

Click on a number and type in your answer. Click check to see the answers.

All the words are used to describe people.

Crossword printable version here

Printable exercises here






7) Play a game
20 questions.
Someone in the class thinks of a famous person. The others ask Yes / No questions to guess the name of the person.
- Is it a man? Yes it is
- Is he tall? - Yes he is.
- Has he got long hair? Yes he has

Continue until you guess. If you can't guess in 20 questions you lose!








8) Discuss / Write

A) In Pairs. Describe someone. Talk about their appearance and their personality. Don't say their name. Read your description to your partner or to the class. Can they guess who you are describing?


B) - IELTS

• The Fashion and clothing industry is becoming increasingly important in modern society. Is this a good or bad thing?

• Eating a balanced diet is the most important factor for a healthy life. To what extent do you agree?

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The Rolling Word Game

(Beg.s > Pre-Int)

You are going to 

• play a revision game
• practise and revise vocabulary by making sentences using word prompts

Teacher's note. I uploaded this here as it has been a very popular game with my younger classes.
You can start or finish at any point depending on the level of the class. The words are more or less ordered according to level from beginners vocab through to prepositions, present continuous, simple past, comparatives, participles  etc 
If teams note down and "collect" the words in order to make a sentence with them to win it can go on for up to 15 minutes (with 2 teams). Otherwise set a time limit.and just award points for each correct sentence.





Instructions

1. Throw 1 or 2  dice.
2. Click the page forward according to the number on the dice.
3. Make a correct sentence with the word shown.
4. Continue. Play in teams. You can get points for each correct sentence or save each word and whoever can make a complete sentence with the words collected is the winner.

 Click play to start

Rolling Word Game from David Mainwood

You can download and adapt the game here






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New Year's Resolutions with Bob Dylan

You are going to

• discuss new year's resolutions
• listen to some popular new year's resolutions and do a gap-fill
• listen to a radio clip about the history of new year's resolutions and do a comprehension quiz

1) Discuss

• Do you make new year resolutions?
• Do you promise yourself to learn some something new, do something better or stop doing something bad in the next 12 months?
• What do you think are the best kind of resolutions to make?
• What are your resolutions for the new year?
• Will you keep them or will you break them?
• What do you think are the most common resolutions that people make?
• Why do we make new year resolutions?

2) Listen
Listen to Bob Dylan on the Theme Time Radio Hour read the most popular new year's resolutions.

• What are they?

Listen again
Fill in the gaps with the right word

3) Discuss

• What do you think of the resolutions in the list?
• Which ones would be good for you?
• Which ones are the least selfish?

4) Listen
Making New Year's Resolutions dates back to medieval times ( = from the 5th to the 15th centuries AD)

• What sorts of resolutions do you think people were making in medieval times?

Listen to the clip below from BBC Radio 4's Today program and find out.

listen to ‘Resolutions used to 'predict future'’ on Audioboo

Listen again and do the quiz below

Printable worksheets here


5) Discuss

• Do you think making a resolution can predict the future?
• Do you think making a resolution can change the future?
• Do you think making a resolution can change the world?

Who is Bob Dylan?
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan



Here is one of Bob Dylan's most famous songs. It's called "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
Watch the clip and read the lyrics below

The times they are a-changin from Tony Fox on Vimeo.

You can double click on any word to see a definition

Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changing

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no telling who that it’s naming
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changing

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it is raging
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changing

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changing

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changing

Copyright © 1963, 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991, 1992 by Special Rider Music http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/times-they-are-changin#ixzz2GfiA5vMU

6) Discuss
He sings "If your time to you is worth saving, then you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone"

• What do you think he means? 
• How much do you think changing the world depends on changing ourselves (ie changing our own decisions, actions and resolutions)?
  
• So what are you going to change this year?

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The Times They are A-Changing gap fill exercise
http://www.lyricstraining.com/play/7790/bob_dylan/the_times_they_are_achangin


New Year's Resolutions
http://messages.365greetings.com/holiday/new-year/new-years-resolutions.html

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/01/four-famous-new-years-resolution-lists-jonathan-swift-susan-sontag-marilyn-monroe-woody-guthrie/


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It's a dog's life!

You are going to

• practise present simple for routine / habit
• practise present simple 3rd Person (+S)
• watch a clip about an unusual dog's habits

1a) Before you watch. 
Look at the list of words below. Do you know all of them?
a phone    a computer    a bed    a pillow    a chair    a table    a glass of water     a t-shirt     a shirt    a toothbrush    a plate    a cup   a television   a car   a train



1b) Watch the clip below. 
Can you see the things?
Put "Yes" or "No"

2) Match

Match the sentence endings with the beginnings

3) What can the dog do?
Write the words in the gaps

Printable versions here



4) Present Simple.
Look at the presentation below and ask the questions to each other. Click the page to begin.

 Present simple - habit / times from David Mainwood

5) Continue the story. 
What do you think "Ruff Dog" does after he drives in his car?

• Where does he go?
• Who does he meet?
• What does he do?

More
http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2011/12/breakfast-with-eric-and-ernie.html

Tom and Jerry - "Buddies Thicker Than Water"

You are going to

• watch a Tom and Jerry cartoon
• practise there is / are, a / some / any, adjectives, to be, plural nouns, present simple

1) Watch the cartoon
Look at the list of nouns.
Watch the cartoon below and put "Yes" if you can see them or "No" if you can't.

Buddies, Thicker Than Water by MistyIsland1

2) Some /Any /A

Look at the sentences and choose the right answer

3) True or False?

4) Adjectives

Choose the best adjective for each picture

5) Summary

Fill in the gaps

Printable worksheets here

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Practise with another Tom and Jerry cartoon

http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2012/09/tom-and-jerry-feedin-kiddie.html

Tom and Jerry on Cartoon network

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/tomjerry/index.html

Prepositions - "Summer Bummer" by Bill Plympton

You are going to

• watch a short cartoon
• practise prepositions

1) Discuss
Look at the picture

• What's the weather like?
• Where is the man?
• What is he doing?
• What is he going to do?

2) Watch the cartoon

• What is the man thinking about?
• How does the shark get to the swimming pool?

Director: Bill Plympton
Producer: Desiree Stavracos
Editor: Desiree Stavracos
Production Designer: Lindsay Woods
Sound Designer: Weston Fonger
Music: Corey Jackson




3) Do the gap-fill
Look at these sentences
Put  the correct prepositions in the spaces.

Printable worksheet here




4) What can you remember?
Tell the story again. Don't look at the exercise. Can you remember all the prepositions?






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Hangman  http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/k/words.php?f=prepositions

Bilionaire
http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/ClassroomGames/Billionaire/Prepositions%20of%20Place%20Billionaire/index.html

Penalty shoot out
http://kidseslgames.com/grammar%20games/Prepositions/prepositions1.html

Prepositions of place  http://englishflashgames.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/prepositions-of-place-game.html

Find the mouse http://www.tcet.com/eaonline/FlashedESL/CatsMX.swf

What's cooking? - 1. "Bubble and Squeak"

You are going to

• watch a food recipe video
• practise the language of cooking
• practise imperatives
• do a gap-fill exercise
• do a food vocabulary crossword
• write a recipe

1) Discuss

• Do you like cooking?
• Do you know how to cook?
• What's your favourite recipe?
• What are the ingredients?
• How long does it take to prepare and cook?
• Where did you learn to cook it?
• Do you know what "Bubble and Squeak" is?

2) List
A) Write a list of all the cooking words you can think of in 60 seconds

3) Watch "How to make Bubble and Squeak"

Find out

• What is "Bubble and Squeak"? 
• What are the ingredients?
• Does the presenter use any cooking words from your list?

.
Watch the video. 
Click on this link  http://video.about.com/britishfood/How-to-Make-Bubble-and-Squeak.htm and the video will open in a new tab.





4) Watch again
A) Look at the list of cooking words below.  Do you know all of them? Look up the words you don't know.
Watch the video again. How many of the words in the list do you hear? Put "Yes" or "No"









B) Look at this recipe and fill in the gaps with one of the expressions from the list

5) Write

Write a recipe of a food you know how to cook

• List the ingredients
• Write the instructions
• Use some of the verbs in the exercise

8) Do the vocabulary crossword

Printable exercise here
Printable crossword here

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Other Food Activities
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Esolcourses Food and Drink activities

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BBC Lingo - Food and cooking

Recipes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

http://foodupload.com/text_photo_recipes