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Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together
Put the words in order to make a third conditional sentence.
If Joanne was her boyfriend have known that 60 old years she never would gone had out with him.
If Joanne had . . .
Transforming tenses
This traditional exercise in language courses works best when there’s a clear context instead of arbitrary sentences. The idea is to set out one tense (or structure) and have the students accurately exchange it for another.
Make one sentence using the Past Continuous.
She typed the letter from 7.30 to 7.45. At 7.40 the telephone rang. While she . . .
You can use timelines and pictures to generate sentences too.
Matching exercises
Activities in which students have to match opposites, or words and pictures or make other similar connections are very controlled and also useful for get- ting students accustomed to new words.
In a lesson on classroom language, you can have students match verbs and activities together:
raise ask compare talk
fill in
Practising
to your partner the gaps yourhand your answers
a question
in pairs
When students work in pairs they can practise their speaking and get to know each other better. Lessons are livelier than with solo activities and classmates can spur each other on and offer correction.