Free time activities: play computer games, play outside, play board games, visit a museum, visit your friend, visit the library, stay at home, stay in bed, stay at a friend’s house
Mandy is bored at home. Lisa goes to the zoo and sees cute panda cubs. Will has a fun day with his friend Mike, playing computer games and eating at a new restaurant. But wait! Mike doesn’t have a dog?
To check learners’ understanding of the video.
Face-to-face class:
Online lesson:
To provide learners with controlled practice of was / were.
Face-to-face class:
Online lesson:
Demonstrate the activity, by doing the first example together with the learners.
During the activity:
After the activity:
As a follow-up activity:
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To ask and answer Yes/No-questions with Past Simple.
Face-to-face class:
Online class:
Demonstrate the activity, by doing the first example together with the learners.
During the speaking activity, monitor the learners and take notes of common errors for error correction right after the activity or at the beginning of the next lesson.
After the activity, the teacher can nominate some of the learners to share with the class what they have learnt about their partner.
As a follow-up activity, learners can write sentences about their partner as part of their homework.
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To raise learners’ awareness of the pronunciation of verbs ending in-ed.
1. Look and listen to Teacher Mr. Boo’s pronunciation class.
2. Each picture has an ‘ed’ word. Can you guess what it is?
3. Listen and repeat the sound and say the sentence.
4. Can you hear what Mr Boo says?
1. You will need a shared device with good audio to view the Powerpoint which you should download (see attachment)
2. Explain to the students that a new Teacher Mr Boo is going to give them a pronunciation class.
3. They must listen to the ‘ed’ sounds and repeat them.
4. This can be done (loudly/quietly/slowly/quickly). Can they repeat everything they hear?
1./d//d/ cleaned, cleaned, my friend cleaned her house.
2. /d//d/ played, played, she played her little guitar.
3. /d/ /d/ studied, studied, the students studied hard
4. /d/ /d/ ironed, ironed, she ironed the red shirt.
5. /id//id/ melted, melted, oh no! my ice cream melted
6. /t//t/ talked, talked, he talked for a very long time.
7. /t//t/ brushed, brushed, he brushed his teeth.
8. /t//t/ walked, walked, he walked the dog around the house
9. /t//t/ asked, asked, they asked many questions.
10. /t//t/ watched, watched, they watched their favouriteprogramme on TV
To provide learners with a freer practice of the use of regular past verbs in the context of talking about last Saturday.
Given on the worksheet.
Face-to-face class:
Online class:
Demonstrate the activity by doing the first example about Boosty together and then let the learners do the activity in pairs in speaking.
During the activity,
At feedback stage, nominate learners to share with the whole class what they learnt about their partner.
As a follow-up activity, learners can be asked to write down what Boosty, themselves or their partner did last Saturday as part of their homework.
Possible answers
The BOOST Project (Building Open Online Series for Teaching) aims to improve the digital readiness of teachers of English as a foreign language to students aged 8 -14 by providing an open-access series of engaging native-speaker content videos linked with a Resource Pack of ready-made activities to stimulate production of the language in online learning.
