TEFL module 15 task
Unit 15 Review Assignment
Level: Pre-intermediate
Aim: Present perfect to express an experience some time before now. E.g. I have been to Mexico. I have eaten Octopus etc.
Target language: I have been/eaten etc., Have you ever...?
Time: 50 minutes
Assumptions: Students will have encountered the present perfect before so should be familiar with the form.
Possible problems: Students might use the present perfect with past phrases, e.g. I have been to Mexico in 2003. I have eaten Octopus last year.
Lead-in
Display a range of pictures illustrating extreme sports (introduce this type of vocabulary in the previous lesson). Ask your students what sports they can recognise (to elicit vocabulary – sports) T-S
Ask your students if they ever tried them; e.g. have you ever jumped on a bungee? Have you ever dived in a cave? Etc. First accept “yes/no” answers. Then explain that you have tried some of them using the right form – I have climbed the high mountain. I still remember my excitement. T
Turn to your students and try to elicit few full sentence answers. You can open the sentence for them: I have … T-S
Presentation
Have some sentences on the flipchart; e.g.
I have climbed the high mountain. I still remember my excitement.
I have done canoeing. I know how to do it now.
I have surfed on a surfing desk. I am good at it now. (T)
Discuss with your students sentence by sentence: 1. Do we know when all this happened? (No time relation)
2. What does the second sentence express? (Experience gained by doing the action in the first sentence)
Underline the present perfect form T-S
Controlled practice
1. Have few sentences similar to those in your presentation (first sentences only). Ask your students to think what consequence for now/ the action causes, what experience the subject has got. Students are working in pairs; you are overlooking (S-S).When they finish go over it sentence by sentence (S-T)
2. Provide your students with a text with gaps where
Level: Pre-intermediate
Aim: Present perfect to express an experience some time before now. E.g. I have been to Mexico. I have eaten Octopus etc.
Target language: I have been/eaten etc., Have you ever...?
Time: 50 minutes
Assumptions: Students will have encountered the present perfect before so should be familiar with the form.
Possible problems: Students might use the present perfect with past phrases, e.g. I have been to Mexico in 2003. I have eaten Octopus last year.
Lead-in
Display a range of pictures illustrating extreme sports (introduce this type of vocabulary in the previous lesson). Ask your students what sports they can recognise (to elicit vocabulary – sports) T-S
Ask your students if they ever tried them; e.g. have you ever jumped on a bungee? Have you ever dived in a cave? Etc. First accept “yes/no” answers. Then explain that you have tried some of them using the right form – I have climbed the high mountain. I still remember my excitement. T
Turn to your students and try to elicit few full sentence answers. You can open the sentence for them: I have … T-S
Presentation
Have some sentences on the flipchart; e.g.
I have climbed the high mountain. I still remember my excitement.
I have done canoeing. I know how to do it now.
I have surfed on a surfing desk. I am good at it now. (T)
Discuss with your students sentence by sentence: 1. Do we know when all this happened? (No time relation)
2. What does the second sentence express? (Experience gained by doing the action in the first sentence)
Underline the present perfect form T-S
Controlled practice
1. Have few sentences similar to those in your presentation (first sentences only). Ask your students to think what consequence for now/ the action causes, what experience the subject has got. Students are working in pairs; you are overlooking (S-S).When they finish go over it sentence by sentence (S-T)
2. Provide your students with a text with gaps where