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Present perfect simple and continuous

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Intermediate+/B2
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Overview

In this upper-intermediate lesson, students will learn how to correctly use the present perfect simple and continuous tenses. They will focus on distinguishing between these two forms and understanding when to use each appropriately. These tenses can convey different aspects of time and action, crucial for expressing experiences, ongoing actions, and completed activities up to the present moment.

The lesson plan includes a boardwork suggestion that outlines one way to present the target language. After that, we move on to several engaging low-resource classroom activities involving different collaborative grammar and speaking tasks. As usual, we have included a fun classroom game idea to review the lesson's content and offer an enjoyable way for students to consolidate their learning.

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Boardwork
1The perfect sentence
2Collocations
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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

Students review the functional uses of the present perfect simple and continuous tenses.

Compare and contrast the functional uses of both tenses with your students and try to elicit examples of each.

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The perfect sentence

The students will work in pairs to make statements using the present perfect simple or continuous.

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Collocations with make or do

Students have to complete a table by matching verbs to their corresponding collocation.

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Suggested homework

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20 Questions: Celebrity interview

One student pretends to be a famous person while the rest of the class ask them interview questions to try and guess who they are.

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