This time I am not going to forget about you.

Yesterday was our last lesson on the Present Continuous. You have certaintly had the chance to practice it so I hope you don´t forget it in quite a while.

Yesterday, after our usual rounds of questions students were given a picture and asked to work with a partner. The pictures were similar but had some differences. In order to find out what their  partner´s picture was like sutdents had to ask questions like:
Is a man playing the piano in your picture?
or
Are two men talking in your picture?

Later students were told how to describe a picture: we start talking about the general picture and then we talk about the particular, we get into detail.
For example, in these pictures we could say:

In the back of the picture there is a man playing the piano and a woman singing. In the front part four people are sitting at a table. ( Then we can say what each one of those people are doing and finally what we see on the table).

The reason why we do this is because in this way the person who is listening to you can imagine the picture in his/her mind easily.

Each student then explained part of their picture aloud. We followed the order mentioned above.

Next, students listened to a recording: questions in the present continuosus. Some of them starting with Where, some with What, some with Who. After listening they ask each other the same type of questions about some pictures and answer them. We also listened to a short conversation. Students read it and role played it. Great Job, kiddos.
Finally students completed a worksheet (also about the Present Continuous). We read a text describing a picture and students needed to correct some sentences and write true sentences.

Homework
Do this exercise. Then, write all the sentences on a piece of paper.

I was a bit disappointed today that only one student had done his homeowork. Well, I know Silvia had done it too, but she had left it at home. Anyway, good for Saúl.

At the beginning of the lesson students said in what year they were born and reviewed a question we had not practiced for a long time:
  
How old is your brother, sister or parent? He is/She is .... years old.

We are studying the Present Continuous: to say what we are doing now, or today, or this week: but today we also practiced the Present Simple, just to see the difference and how we use it to talk about something different.

Present continuous: now, today, this month, at seven o´clock, etc.

Present Simple: every day, usually, every morning, every night, etc. (Routines!)
In order to learn about this tense we listened to a song called The Morning Rap. Students acted out all the actions and had a good time. There were many things to do: wake up, get up, get a wash, get dressed, run to the kitchen, sit down, have breakfast, get the bag, put on your shoes, say goodbye to Mum, say goodbye to Dad...

Uuups! Forgot to correct homework last class. It must be that were too busy last Wednesday. We'll do it next day.
But we continue practicing the Present Continuous. All the students could talk about actions in general, because we had been learning for a long time, so this time some new specific actions were introduced:
House chores: sweep the floor, mop the floor, vacuum the floor, make the bed, tidy up, set the table, do the laundry, fold the clothes, iron the clothes, wash up, cook, wash the windows, cut the grass, dust the furniture. 

Students wrote down and pronounced those new words. They acted out those actions. The other students had to guess what they were doing. We used this activity to practice asking questions in the present continuous. How do we ask a question in the present continuous? Very easy: we change the order of the words. Instead of saying:

He is sweeping the floor.

we put is first and say:

Is he sweeping the floor?

or are first:

Are Simon and Mary washing up the dishes?

Next students wrote some sentences in the present continuous. The had to write what the people in the pictures were doing.

For the Olympic games students had to answer 10 questions: some of them had to be answer in the present continuous, other ones were general questions that we had been practicing at the beginning of the lesson and that we repeat often, like address and year of birth. I must say they all did very well. What a smart group!

Homework

It is Monday, it's 8:00 o.c. in the evening. What's each member of your family doing and in which room are they? Example: My sister is doing her homework in her bedroom or My mother is writing an email in the living room. 

We have started a new topic: it is about Actions we are doing now. We also study how to tell the time in this topic. But we had already done that, so that I think everybody in this group can tell the time correctly.
We had also studied lots of verbs or actions, so what we need to do now is learn how to use those verbs in the Present Continuous.

You know how to do it:

The Present of To Be:

I am
you are
he is
she  is                                +  verbing      Example: eating.
it is
we are
you are
they are

When we ask questions we put the verb Be first, then the subject, finally the verbing.
Example: Are you eating a sandwich? Is Joe walking to school?

In our class, students chose a picture card of an action and they had to act out that action. Then they had to ask: What am I doing? The other students had to guess. We did it in different ways, sometimes students worked with a partner, so we could practice singular and plural forms and all the different persons: I, you, he/she, we, you, they.

We did 2 exercises from the book: students had to listen to a recording and match the actions with the pictures, then they wrote on their notebooks what each character in the exercise was doing at a particular moment.
Finally we had the Olympic Games: students had to answer the question What's is he/she doing? or What are they doing? about some picture cards.

Homework

Say what they are doing. Make 5 sentences. One of them, at least, has to be plural: about more than 1 person.