Level: Pre-in (adults) Wednesday 15th March

Topic: Experiences: holidays/travel

Skills: Listening and speaking

Grammar: Present perfect (vs past simple)

Time Activity Purpose

15m Warmer To test ability/knowledge of present
On your paper write 3-4 places you have been. Don’t show each other! perfect form with been for questions and
(Demo on board: Barcelona, Italy, Brazil, London, Scotland). answers when speaking.
You will.. speak to everybody to find out if they have been to the same places at you. To start class with active lively exercise.
Aim: to find people who have something in common w/you. (Don’t look at each other’s To personalise information.
notes)! To activate schema for experiences.
Demo - use ‘Have you been to…? Yes I have/No I haven’t’ - don’t board it yet.
F/b - Who had been to the same place as you? (XXX has been to….)
10m Language Focus - Experiences To highlight for, meaning and pron. To
KEY QUESTION - do we know WHEN XXX went to …? (NO - TIME IS NOT IMPORTANT!!) personalise learning. To model target
Elicit question and answer - board this with form. Add timeline. language.
(S)he’s been … I’ve been … Subject + aux verb (to have) + verb (past participle)
Has she been … ? Have you been … ? Aux verb (to have) + subject + verb (past participle)
(Yes, I have - No, I haven’t) - DRILL PRON - AND ASK REAL QUESTIONS TO CHECK MEANING!
5m Follow-up, contrast with past simple To highlight different pres perfect/past
simple. To use visual timeline with
 When did you go to …? In 2007, 2008, 2001???? Board timeline - highlight specific time. examples. To model target language.
I _____ to Spain in 2001.
How was it? It _____ great!
10m Speaking prep To prepare for speaking. To practice pron
and forming own Q&As. To board model
On your paper write experiences you have had - a little strange or unusual is good (lie if you language. To give thinking time in prep
want!), more than one for each category is ok - (demo on wb): for conversations about experiences.
movie, TV show, activity (-ing), book, sport, food, drink

Elicit verbs to go with each experience.

Board the past simple/past participle forms.
Drill pron and elicit dif Q&A forms.
20m Speaking - find sb who To practice using p/perfect Q&As to ask
and answer questions about experiences
As per warmer activity - repeat but with more variety in verbs/experiences. - repeat to develop automation.
Feedback:- Who has tried the same food as you? ___ has tried …. Who has played the same
sport as you? ___ has played… Etc etc.

20m Speaking - past simple To highlight difference in form and

meaning in past simple. To
CLARIFY ON WB WE ARE NOW CHANGING - NOT TALKING ABOUT ‘ EXPERIENCE’ BUT TALKING practice/revise past simple Q&As. To
ABOUT A SPECIFIC TIME! practice speaking about specific finished
past time.
 Pairs - swap papers. Ask questions about anything on the list. (Board/drill Q.s):
When did you….?
Who did you …. with?
How was it?
Did you like it? Why (not)?

If time - change pairs and repeat. Feedback whole class.

Plenary Error correction - recall new words - recap, take questions. Wrap up and consolidate.