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In this lesson, we introduce the students to the two-part verb form have got, which is a common and useful expression in English. Learning the conjugations of have got will give students more flexibility in expressing possession and characteristics.

It begins with a couple of warm-up activities that act as a bridge from previous lessons to this one. For those who value visual aids, we've provided notes on suggested boardwork that show one way to cover the conjugations of have got with your students. The lesson then incorporates several low-resource ESL classroom activities where students practice forming statements using have got. To further instil these new concepts, we've included a suggested homework task where the students produce a paragraph of writing. As with every lesson, we conclude with an engaging classroom game that provides further practice of the lesson's target language.

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Warmers

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Vocabulary refresh

Quiz the students on the new vocabulary they learned during the previous lesson.

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Homework review: My family

The students read a few statements that describe their family.

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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

Students learn the conjugations of the two-part verb form have got and look at some example sentences.

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Mary and Max

The students have to make 'have got' statements about characters on the board.

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I've got it

Building on the previous activity, the students now have to make 'have got' style sentences about themselves.

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Switch tracks

The students now have to make statements about their classmates.

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Suggested homework

The students have to write a paragraph about a famous person they admire.

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Classroom games

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Hot Seat: Describe a student

Players have to guess which classmate their teammates are describing.

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