Practising Present Simple and Continuous

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LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

  • revise Present Simple and Present Continuous,
  • practise the tenses in a controlled, semi-controlled and free way,
  • watch and talk about videos,
  • discuss a topic of your choice (habits or free time). 

In the first lesson, students revise Present Simple and Present Continuous. In the second lesson, they practise the tenses in speaking using different contexts.

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Lesson 1

Help students revise Present Simple and Present Continuous
Present Simple and Present Continuous
Flipped Lesson 60 min Unlimited Plan

Let’s revise Present Simple and Present Continuous

Grammar

With this flipped lesson, at home students revise meaning, form and use of Present Simple and Present Continuous. In class, they practise the tenses in a controlled and semi-controlled way. They also play a game.

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Lesson 2

Choose one of the lessons and help students practise Present Simple and Present Continuous in different contexts
talking about habits
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min Unlimited Plan

Talking about habits

Lifestyle

In this Speaking Class, students talk about habits, discuss how to form new habits and comment on two funny ads. Encourage students to use Present Simple throughout the lesson. To help students practise Present Continuous, stop the videos from time to time and ask them to say what the people are doing in the particular frame.

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lesson about free time
Speaking Class 45 min / 60 min Unlimited Plan

Ways to relax

Lifestyle

In this Speaking Class, students talk about the things they find stressful and what they do to relax. They also watch a video. Encourage students to use Present Simple throughout the lesson. To help students practise Present Continuous, ask them what the people in the photos in ex. 1 (slide 3) are doing and stop the video and ask them to say what the woman is doing in that particular frame.

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  1. KrisTeen99

    Thank you very much for this update!

    1. Justa

      Thanks for the comment! We hope the set is useful 🙂

  2. Denis Sorn

    But where is the present continuous lesson? There are only revision ones but none that actually teach the tense before revising it.

    1. Stan

      Hi Denis! This Lesson Set is focused on revising both tenses so the prerequisite is that students know these tenses. In the future, we might develop a Lesson Set where we introduce the tense.

      1. Irene D.

        Indeed. I’ve been looking forward to it too!

    2. Andrezhii

      True! I really want it too

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