"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.





More
Past Continuous / Past Simple (Revison Quiz) Elementary, gifs, Intermediate, Past Continuous, Past Simple, Pre-Intermediate, Quizzes  

Present Perfect Simple Intermediate, Present Perfect Simple

Mystery Person Game Elementary Games, Kids, Past Simple, Speaking, Young Learners
 
Rolling Question Game Elementary, Games, Pre-Intermediate, Kids, Speaking, Young Learners

Rolling Word Game Elementary, Games, Intermediate, Kids, Speaking, Young Learners

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





More
Rolling Question Game Elementary, Games, Pre-Intermediate, Kids, Speaking, Young Learners

Rolling Word Game Elementary, Games, Intermediate, Kids, Speaking, Young Learners

Past Simple forms Elementary,

Mr Bean at the Dentist (Past Simple) Elementary, Film and TV, Mr Bean, Past Simple, Young Learners 

Why do we celebrate Valentine's Day?

You are going to

• read information in a video about Valentine's Day
• do a true or false quiz based on the clip
• read an infographic about Valentine's Day

1) Discuss

• What do you know about Valentine's Day?
• Why do we celebrate it?
• Do you celebrate it in your country?
• What do people do on Valentine's Day?
• How and when did Valentine's Day start?

2) Watch
Watch the clip below.
What are the most popular gifts on Valentine's Day?

Now do the true or false quiz below

Printable worksheet here




3) Read
Look at the infographic.

• What additional information is there about the history of Valentine's Day?
• What is your favourite quote about love?
• What is your favourite funny verse?
• How do you say "I love you" in your language?

source http://www.cooldailyinfographics.com/post/the-best-valentines-card-verses





4) Discuss
Do you think Valentine's Day is popular because people want to be romantic or is it mainly a business and commercial interest?







More
What is love? Intermediate , Listening, Love, Relationships, Upper Intermediate  

Inspiring People Achievements, Crossword, Describing a person, Famous People, Inspiring People, Intermediate, Life and how to live it, Occupations, Past Simple

60 Seconds - Things That Happen On The Internet Every 60 Seconds - Things That Happen On The Internet Every Sixty Seconds, Intermediate, Numbers, Technology,  Passive, Upper Intermediate

What do you Know About YouTube? Business, Elementary, History,Intermediate, Internet, Numbers, Past Simple, Reading, Technology, YouTube 

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.








More
Carry on Doctor - Practising the past continuous / past simple, Film and TV,  Intermediate, Past Continuous, Past Simple, Writing, Writing a letter of complaint

Jump and Slide 3 (Quiz Game - Pre-Int)

An pre-intermediate level quiz game to practise making questions in the past, present and future.

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)
An elementary version is here Jump and Slide 2 (Quiz Game - Elementary)

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




More

• Asking Questions Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Question forms

• Rolling Word Game Elementary, Games, Intermediate, Kids, Speaking, Young Learners

Why are jeans so popular?

You are going to

• discuss fashion and jeans
• watch a video clip and do some listening activities on the history of denim (Int)
• do a reading activity about the history of denim (Int) 
• do a listening activity about the popularity of jeans (U.Int)
• write about the influence of fashion on people

1) Discuss

• Are you wearing jeans now?
• How often do you wear jeans? 
• What are jeans made of?
• Do you like jeans? Why? / Why not?
• Why do you wear jeans?
• If you are in class now, how many people are wearing jeans?
• Why do you think they are so popular? 
• What do you know about the history of jeans?

2) Watch
What do you know about the history of jeans?
Look at the sentences in the exercise below.
A) Watch the video below and decide if they are true or false.

B) Watch again and do the gap-fill exercise

3) Read
Read the text below and put the sentences in the correct spaces

4) Listen
Listen to the clip below
You are going to listen to Anthropologist Daniel Miller talking about the popularity of  jeans on the BBC World service programme The Forum.
Why does he think jeans are so popular?

listen to ‘Why are jeans so popular?’ on Audioboo

From The Forum http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00np2s1#p00p8k7m

Now read the summary below and fill in the gaps.

Vocabulary - to plug = to promote / market / advertise

5) Write
Fashion trends are difficult to follow these days and it's widely believed that they primarily exist just to sell clothes. Some people believe that we shouldn't follow them and that we should dress in that we like and feel comfortable in.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
(IELTS)




Printable worksheets here




More
Giving Up Marilyn Manson  Fashion, Listening, Phrasal Verbs / Idioms and Slang, Writing

Read
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17101768

The history of jeans
http://www.jeans-and-accessories.com/history-of-blue-jeans.html

The Rolling Stones

You are going to

• read about the Rolling Stones
• look at a video and do a comprehension activity
• read a text and do matching activities
• practise asking questions
• listen to a song and do a gap-fill exercise
• practise the past
• make a presentation about your favourite band / singer

1) Introduction

• Do you like Rock music?
• Who is your favourite rock band?
• 2012 is the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Rolling Stones. What do you know about the Rolling Stones?

2) Read
Look at the presentation below. Click on it to open. 

1. Look at the pages. What can you find out about the Rolling Stones just by looking at the photos?
   
2. Read the text in it (best viewed in full screen) and follow the instructions. The text is the same as in exercise B below.

Vocabulary -  a gig = a show, a concert

Rolling stones from David Mainwood

B) Read the text again. There are 8 question headings for 8 paragraphs.
Read the text and choose the best question heading for each paragraph.

C) Ask Questions

Make questions for the answers from the text.

Listen to one of their most famous songs while you do the exercises - Jumping Jack Flash

3) Video
Watch the clip
1) Listen and find out

• Why have the Rolling Stones lasted so long?
• What has made them one of the biggest rock bands?

Answers - Highlight below

1. They "stayed together" and enjoy it.
2. Unique sound and lively shows 

2) What can you remember?
Do the matching exercises below. Match the year with the event

4) Listen / Song

"Sympathy for the Devil"
One of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs and one that has been used in films and covered by many other bands.

Watch the clip, listen to the song's lyrics and do the gap fill below.

Printable worksheets here

5) Discuss

What do you think of the Rolling Stones?
Who is your favourite band or singer?
Why do you like them?
Are they very popular? Why? / Why not?

6) Presentation / Speaking / Research / Writng (note taking)

Choose a band or singer you like and make a (powerpoint) presentation about them. Tell their story.
Look on the internet for some photos to illustrate your presentation.
Look for information but NEVER copy and paste. Just take notes. Select the important information.
Play some short clips of their music during your presentation.

Plan

• Introduce them - Who are they?
• Career - Give a short outline of their career
• Conclusion - Why are they popular / important / interesting / good..?

Advice

• This is a speaking activity so don't put too much written information in the presentation. 
• Never read text from the presentation. You should explain what your audience can already see.
• You can use notes to speak but the presentation should be mostly visual. 

See here for more http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/presentations-how-to-present-yourself.html

More

Official site  http://www.rollingstones.com/

Learning / practice activities on the Beatles 

Shakira and Beyonce / Contrasting / Writing a Biography. 



Finally
Watch the Rolling Stones at their primitive best. Live at the Marquee club in London in 1971

What do you know about YouTube?

You are going to

• watch a video and read text in the video
• look at an infographic about YouTube
• do some quiz comprehension activities
• practise reading quickly / scanning for information
• practise the past

Discuss

• What do you know about YouTube?
• Do you use it?
• What do you watch on it? 
• What is your favourite clip?
• Have you ever uploaded a clip to YouTube? 
• Have you ever been "Rickrolled"? What does it mean?

Vocabulary check
Drag and drop to match the words on the left with the definitions on the right




Watch
Watch the video and answer the questions.

• Who founded YouTube?
• What gave them the idea to start the site?
• When was the first YouTube video uploaded?
• How many people use the site?

Quiz
How much can you remember from the video?
Do this quiz.

Read
Read the text below about the history of YouTube from 2005 to 2010. Don't worry if you don't understand everything. Find the answers as quickly as you can.
You can answer the questions in the interactive exercise below

Find out

1. When did YouTube officially launch?
2. How much did Google buy YouTube for?
3. Which Queen has her own channel?
4. Which famous rock band performed live on Youtube?
5. How long does the average person spend on YouTube?
6. How many views a day did YouTube have in 2010?
7. What percentage of internet traffic does YouTube have?
8. How long was the first video?
9. What age group uses YouTube the most?
10. How many languages does Google's Automatic Speech Recognition Technology translate?

Infographic: The History of Youtube by Infographiclabs


Now answer the questions

Printable version here

Write / Research

What's your favourite webpage on the internet?
Write a short paragraph about it.
Intro

• What is it? 
• What can you do on it? 
• Are there other websites like it?

Find out

• Who founded it?
• Why?
• How old is it? When was it launched?
• Is it popular? How much traffic does it have?

Conclusion
Give you opinion of it. Say what's special about it



More
What are the most watched clips on YouTube?
Can you guess any?

Watch the clip below

• How many clips have you already seen?
• What activities are the people doing?

Inspiring People

You are going to

• watch a video and talk about people who inspire others
• practise past simple
• practise some vocabulary connected with occupations and people who try to change the world
• talk about what / who inspires you

1) Discuss

What does inspiring mean?

• What kind of people or things inspire you?
• In what jobs is it necessary to try and inspire people?
• Why do people try to inspire others?

Look at the photos below. 

• How many of them do you know? 
• What do you know about them?

Look at their names

Top left to right - Mother Teresa, Winston Churchill, Muhammad Ali, Che Guevara, Bob Marley,

Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst

 

2) Do the matching exercise
How many do you know? Match the occupation with the name.
You can drag and drop the occupations to the names.

3) Discuss
Who do you think is the most inspiring of the 10?
Why?
Watch the clip. Do you agree with the choice of people?

4) Discuss

• Do you agree with the choice of people in the list? Why / Why not?
• What can you remember about the people in the clip?

5) Do the quiz

Be careful of spelling and punctuation. You can use numbers in some answers.

6) Read

Can you put the correct past forms in the gaps?

7) Do the crossword

The answers are all from the video / reading text.
How many can you remember?

Crossword printable version here
Printable exercises here



8) Speak
Do a balloon debate  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_debate

9) Discuss / Write

Who inspires you?
Write about someone who inspires you.

Plan
1. Introduce the person. Who are they? Why are they important to you?
2. Describe the the person in more detail. Describe their character / personality. Why / How do they inspire you? Do they inspire you because of their beliefs / their actions? What exactly have you learnt from them?
3. Are you a better person because of them? How have they changed you? Give an example of something you do that they inspired.
4. Conclude. How would your life be different without them? Restate why they are important to you in a few words.

10) Read

What inspires you? Try a quiz
http://quizilla.teennick.com/quizzes/1476632/what-inspires-you

http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/1hR2N3l/Who-inspires-you

11) More

Shakira and Beyonce / Writing a biography of someone you admire
http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/10/shakira-and-beyonce-contrasting-writing.html


Occupy Education  http://occupyedu.tumblr.com/

Accidental Inventions and Hidden Heroes

You are going to

• practise past simple and past continuous
• watch a video about inventions and do a matching exercise 
• watch a video about a science exhibition and do a quiz
• listen to a radio interview about what motivates inventors and do a gap-fill
• read an interview with inventor Mark Champkins
• discuss and describe inventions
• write about an invention

1) Video 1 - Discuss

• What are the most useful inventions that we use today?
• What couldn't you live without?
• Is it a simple everyday object like a pen or a paper clip or something more complex?

You are going to watch a video called "10 Accidental Inventions"

• What inventions do you think they are?
• Why do you think they are called "accidental"?

Watch and find out

2) Matching exercise

Match the beginnings of the sentences with the ends. Watch the video again if you need to.

3) Grammar

Look at the sentences again. How many tenses are there?
Which phrases are Past Simple?
Which are Past Continuous?
What's the difference between the Past Simple and Continuous?
Not sure? Look here

4) Video 2 - Discuss

You are going to watch a clip about an exhibition called the "Hidden Heroes Exhibition."

• Who do you think are the "Hidden Heroes?
• Why do you think they have called them "hidden"?
• What kind of objects do you think are in the exhibition?

Watch the clip




Now answer these questions. Watch the video again if you need to.

5) Discuss - Listen

Rawlplugs and screws

• Do you agree that the objects in the Hidden Heroes exhibition are very important?
• Why do inventors invent things?
• What do you think is the main motivation for inventing? 

Listen to an interview with inventor Mark Champkins on BBC World Tonight and find out.





Fill in the gaps in the summary with the verbs from the list. Choose them from the drop-down menu.

Printable version available here

6) Reading

Interview with Mark Champkins. Look at the questions.

• What inspired you to become an inventor?
• What is your favourite invention ever?
• What invention could you not live without?
• Which object in the museum is the most inspirational or influenced your time here so far?

Go here to read Mark's answers
http://sciencemuseumdiscovery.com/blogs/insight/inventor-in-residence/

7) Discuss

• What would you invent if you could?
• What inventions does the world need now? Why?

8) Writing / Discussion

What invention couldn't you live without?

Describe it.

• Is it a simple everyday object or something more complex?
• What's it for?
• What kind of design has it got?
• Has the design changed much since it was invented?

Look on the internet. Find out some history

• Who invented it?
• Where was it invented?
• Was it invented by accident?
• Why and how was it invented?
• What were they trying to do when they invented it (what else were they working on)?

What do you think about it?

• Why is it important?
• What did it change or make better for people?
• What couldn't we do without it?
• Why couldn't you live without it?

Write about your invention
Write it using 3 - 4 paragraphs (see above)
Don't forget to have an introduction (say what it is and why you are choosing it)
and a conclusion (your opinion of it / why couldn't you live without it and why you think it's important)

More practice

More reading
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/hiddenheroes


More past continuous and past simple
http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/past-continuous-with-gifs_12.html
http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/past-simple-past-continuous-with-gif.html


More inventions http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/12/what-would-have-happened-if-10.html

The Beatles

You are going to

• revise the past simple
• listen to a video about the Beatles and do a matching exercise
• read a text about the Beatles and do a gap-fill exercise
• do a quiz based on the information in the lesson

  

1) Discuss

2012 is the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' first hit single.

• Who were the Beatles?
• What were their names?
• What did they do?

Watch the video to find out.

2) Do the matching exercise

Look at the exercise below. The information in the boxes on the right is in a different order to the film. Use your mouse to drag the information in the boxes on the right to the correct heading on the left.
Watch the film again if you need to.

Listen to this Beatles concert from 1964 while you do the gap fill exercise below.

3) Gap-fill

Read the text and fill in the gaps.

You can choose the correct answer from the drop-down menu.

Sgt Pepper

Abbey Road

4) Beatles Quiz

How much can you remember?

Do this quiz. There are 12 questions.

5) Writing

Choose someone famous that you like. Write about them.

• When was he / she born?
• Where was he / she from?
• What did he / she do?
• How did he / she become famous?
• Did he / she make films?
• Did he / she get married?
• Why do you like him / her?

6) More

Printable worksheet here

More Beatles http://efllecturer.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/whats-so-special-about-beatles.html

More past simple practice

http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/04/past-simple-forms.html 

More practice with the Beatles  http://www.esllistening.org/beatles/home.html

More Beatles info and music  http://www.beatles.com/

And in the end...

Merry Christmas Mr Bean

Teacher's note;

The activities in the worksheet at the bottom of this post are based on the full episode available on DVD or on youtube http://youtu.be/L2UCRNldC3s (it cannot be embedded here).

This post contains some exercises based on the embeddable youtube clips. The answers are in the worksheet.

DVD available here

Mr Bean celebrates the traditional British Christmas: the baubles, the crackers, the nativity scene, the carols, the presents, the turkey and the mistletoe... they are all here. As no British Christmas is complete without a disaster or two that makes it the typical British Christmas!

You are going to

• discuss Christmas
• watch the Christmas Mr Bean episode and do some activities
• find Christmas words in a word search exercise
• write the story in the past tense
• find out more about the typical British Christmas and some of the Christmas things in the video.

Christmas Vocabulary – crackers,  mistletoe, Christmas tree, tinsel, carols, carol singers, Santa Claus / Father Christmas, stockings, presents, holly, turkey, stuffing, fairy lights, angel, star, cards, pudding, baubles, nativity scene, baby Jesus, manger.

Discuss

• Do you celebrate Christmas?
• What do people usually do on Christmas Eve in the UK?
• What do people usually do on Christmas Day in the UK?
• Do you know of any special Christmas food or Christmas customs in the UK?
• What decorations do we have?
• What’s a cracker?
• What’s mistletoe?
• What are carols?

Watch clip 1
Answer the questions in the interactive exercise after you watch

1. Did Mr Bean have any Christmas decorations?
2. What Christmas decorations did Mr Bean have?
3. What kind of films were on TV?
4. Did Mr Bean like the films?
5. What did the children sing?
6. Did Mr Bean like them?
7. What did he eat?
8. Did he give the children anything?

Now do  exercise 1 (the answers to questions 9 and 10 are in the next clip)

Watch clip 2

Answer the questions in the interactive exercise after you watch

1) What were his 3 Christmas presents and who were they for?


2) Who says it?
Put “B” for Bean or “G” for his girlfriend.

___”Are you alright in there?”
___“Fine, thank you”

___“Cup of tea?”
___“Oh Yes, if you’re having one”
___“Well I might”
___“Have you got the turkey on?”
___“Do you want a hand?”
___“No, no, thank you”



3) Fill in the gaps from this list of verbs                        
USE THE PAST FORMS                                                      
(You can use some verbs more than once)
Pull  Eat  Give  Do  Cry  Make  Be  Ring  Find  Leave  Want  Scream  Throw  Lose  Put  Hang  Be  See

1. Mr Bean _____  lunch
2. The turkey ______ very big
3. He ______ stuffing inside the turkey
4. He ______ his watch
5. His girlfriend ______ the doorbell
6. She ______ up the mistletoe
7. She ______ when she ___ Mr Bean
8. She ______ the coal bucket out the window
9. Mr Bean ______ his watch
10. They ______ sandwiches for lunch
11. She ______ him a present
12. She ______ a kiss
13. He ______ want to kiss her
14. He _____ her a present
15. She ______ after she ___  her present and ______ the flat
16. Mr Bean ______ the cracker
17. There ___ an explosion

Now do exercises 2 and 3

4) Do the word square

There are 19 Christmas words hidden in this box. Can you find them all?
The words go across → and down ↓
 

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Worksheet and answers

Merry Christmas Mr Bean for EFL

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5) Writing

• Tell the story of Mr Bean's Christmas in the past. Start Mr Bean went shopping in Harrods. He...
• Describe your typical Christmas 
• Describe a similar festival in your country (talk about the typical food, clothes, traditional activities etc)

6) Reading / Webquest
Find out about the typical British Christmas.

Click on the links to find the answers
Why do we decorate our houses at Christmas?
When is Boxing Day?
Why is it called Boxing Day?
What is Christmas Pudding? 
Why do we have Christmas trees?
Who is Father Christmas?
What are mince pies?
What is a nativity play?
What do children do at Christmas?
What are the 12 days of Christmas?

Read more about the traditional British Christmas here  http://projectbritain.com/Xmas/index.html#top

More activities here http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/christmas.html