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Questions with the present continuous

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Elementary/A2
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Grammar
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45-60 min
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Overview

This lesson aims to teach students how to form questions using the present continuous tense. By the end of this session, students will be able to create and comprehend questions with this tense, enhancing their ability to inquire about ongoing actions and events more confidently.

The lesson starts with a suggested boardwork example to introduce the target language. Following that, students engage in several low-resource activities, including grammar exercises and collaborative speaking tasks. To wrap up, we end with a fun classroom game that reinforces the concepts in a fun and interactive way.

Lesson Outline
Activities
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Boardwork
1Questions and answers
2Wh- questions
3What's happening?
Games
1Pictionary: Wh- questions
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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

The students learn how to form questions using the present simple tense.

Demonstrate how to form questions in the present continuous tense by converting a basic present continuous statement into a query. Then add a few pronoun/verb prompts and elicit questions and short answers. Finally, step through a few examples of wh- questions, eliciting as much as possible from the students (blue text).

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Questions and answers

The students have to make present continuous questions from a list of prompts on the board.

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Wh- questions

For this writing activity, students will work in pairs to make wh- questions and sample answers.

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What's happening?

A role-play activity where the students have to act out a scene.

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Classroom games

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Pictionary: Wh- questions

Players have to use images to represent a present continuous statement on the board while their teammates attempt to guess what they are.

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