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Did You Have a Good Weekend?
The activities below provide fun exercises for the entire class when you have extra time. They are designed to be taught with specific exercises in this unit. Click on an activity in the list below or scroll down the page.
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True or false?
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 3, "Grammar Focus: Simple past statements: regular verbs."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity can be used in any unit to practice writing descriptive statements. In this unit, the activity practices prepositions of place.
- Explain the activity: Students write six statements about the positions of objects in the classroom. Four should be true and two should be false.
- Students form groups and take turns reading their statements while others look around the classroom to verify the statements. If a statement is true, students should say, "True." If a statement is false, they say, "False," and then correct the statement.
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Role play
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 4, "Pronunciation: Regular simple past verbs."
Time: 10–15 minutes. This activity provides further pronunciation practice of the regular past tense ending.
- Students look back at Unit 14, Exercise 2. Have students circle the past tense verbs.
- Elicit the pronunciation of each past tense verb in the conversation. Play the audio program once or twice while students listen. Tell students to pay special attention to the pronunciation of the verbs.
- In pairs, students practice the conversation again. Encourage them to focus on the pronunciation of the past tense verbs and to use expression in their voices.
- Follow up by asking volunteers to say the conversation for the class without reading. If they forget parts, encourage them to improvise, or let other students prompt them.
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Yesterday
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 8, "Grammar Focus: Simple past yes/no questions."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This activity provides additional controlled practice of grammar.
- Write this question and answers on the board:
____ you ____ yesterday?
Yes, I ____ ./No, I ____ .
- Have students ask and answer questions about their own activities by completing the blanks in the sentences. Encourage students to add further information after answering yes or no, for example:
Student 1: Did you watch TV yesterday?
Student 2: No, I didn't. I studied.
Student 3: Did you exercise yesterday?
Student 4: Yes, I did. I went swimming.
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Game – Tic-Tac-Toe
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 11, "Reading: The Changing Weekend."
Time: 10 minutes. This activity can be used in any unit to practice forming questions and statements. Here students practice questions and statements in the simple present with regular and irregular verbs.
- Draw a grid with nine squares on the board (i.e., three rows and three columns). Ask students to call out present tense verbs, some in the first-person form and some in the third-person singular form, with -s (e.g., go, dances, play). Write one verb on each square of the grid.
- Divide the class into two teams – Team X and Team O. Team X starts by choosing a verb and making either a question or a statement with it. If it is correct, Team X writes an X on the grid and takes another turn. If it is incorrect, Team O gets a chance with the same word. If Team O is correct, they write an O on the grid. Then it is Team O's turn.
- The game continues until one team gets Tic-Tac-Toe: three Xs or Os in a line; up, down, or diagonally across the grid.
- Optional: This game can also be played in pairs or groups, which gives each student more practice.
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