Created by Brenda, Erika, Sandra and Yosselin.

Topic: Modal verbs.

Warm up:  (5 minutes) The teacher show to the students a nursery rhyme trough a slide with all the possible modal verbs, where they have to be in different color to the rest of words in this way students will be able to identify them more easily. Then give to the students a sheet of paper with a text and ask them find and circle all modal verbs in the text.

Introduction: (2 minutes) Teacher greets the students and briefly describes what will be done during the class.

Presentation: (15 minutes) Teacher introduces an interactive 10 slide presentation about modal verbs. This presentation explains about the use of: "Can", "could", "may", "might", "must", "shall", "should", "ought to", "will" and "would", it contains a brief definition of them (what meaning they do convey) by using audio samples.

Comprehension:  (3 minutes) ask to any student about some modal verb seen in the presentation and if they don't have clear some of them try to explain in a different way.

Guided practice: (5 minutes) Allow the students to use their cellphones just to practice online about the topic in the following link: http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-modals.php and explain them what they are going to do there.

communicative practice: (3 minutes) ask to the student to look for a song that has modal verbs and share the lyrics of the song on the forum of the English class created by the teacher.

Assessment/Evaluation:  (10 minutes) Ask to the student to write 2 sentences in the board using  modal verbs and tell them no one sentence can be repeated.

Wrap up:  (2 minutes) Share to students the following link: https://quizlet.com/143785500/spell tell them to perform the activity as a homework and send screenshot of the score obtained to the teacher's mail. 

Past continuous

5 minutes

Greeting

10 minutes

In this class I will start with a dynamic that will consist of telling the students to form a presentation circle, in which each of the students must pass a ball and whoever has the ball should self-present and say that he knows about Continuous Past.

20 minutes

ü  After self-presentation and sharing the previous knowledge on the subject, we will start the development of the theme: Past Continuous. We will start by explaining the theorist's theme: Explaining:

What is past continuous?

The past continuous tense is most often used for actions happening at some time in the past. Is to talk about something that was happening around a particular time in the past. which began in the past and is still going on at the time of speaking.

Examples:

-She was reading the newspaper in the living room when you arrived.

-You were working very hard yesterday.

-They were playing in the park.

-She was doing the work of two people.

-He was speaking German.

-The plane was leaving the airport.

-He was playing in the park.

-They were selling books there.

How is it formed?

The past continuous is formed from the past tense of be with the -ing form of the verb.

FORM:

Affirmative

I/She/He/It           was                          Reading.

You/We/They      was                          Reading.

Negative

I/She/He/It           was not (wasn’t)       Looking.

You/We/They      were not (weren’t)     Looking.

Questions and short answers

           Was I/she/he/it waiting?             Yes, I was.           No, I wasn’t.

           Were you/we/they watching?     Yes, you were      No, you weren’t

Where was he waiting?

What were they wearing?

When is it used?

-For a continuous unfinished action in the past.

-To describe an unfinished action that was interrupted by another event or action, e.g. "I was having a beautiful dream when the alarm clock rang."

-For two continuing events happening at the same time.

-To express a change of mind: e.g. "I was going to spend the day at the beach but I've decided to get my homework done instead."

-For activities as background description

-To show that something continued for some time:

-For something that was happening again and again: I was practising every day, three times a day, They were meeting secretly after school.

-With verbs which show change or growth: The children were growing up quickly,
Her English was improving.

ü  Then the students have to form two groups, one member of each team have to go to the front of the two teams and once the students chosen are in front of both groups they will be shown a flashcard, without the other students Can see it.

The flashcard must show someone or something performing an action ... the chosen students must represent the action to their groups. They can not use words, only mime.

The first student in each group to guess the verb, will go to the board and write a phrase in past continuous with the verb guessed, in which the teammates can collaborate for make the phrase.

Student who has written the phrase, will be next in mime, and so on.

will win the group that finishes first and has the most correct sentences.

10 minutes

Closing

Finally, I will use the technology by showing my students in 5 minute a video about a small story, where students, as the video plays, must recognize or find sentences in Past continuous in the video and at the end each student should write in Pages of colors the sentences that they have found.

Topic:    Present continuous

Introduction 

On this day I will explain a little about the present continuous its grammatical forms  The present progressive or present continuous is the continuous form of the present. In English it is used mainly for actions that are taking place at the moment of speaking or that are only happening temporarily   and uses.

(Second year of high school)

To do this procedure used the board   (time 15)

presentation

Affirmative

I                               am

You-we-they         are       moving

She-he-it                   is

Negative

I                                  am not

You-we-they            are not          studying

She-he-it                  is not

Question and short answers

Am               I                                      going ?                             yes, I am –no, I am 

Are              you-we-they                waiting?                          yes, they are – no, they are not 

Is                she-he-it                       singing ?                        yes, he is – no, is not

In a poster  show the uses with an example and explain their functions ( time 10 minutes)

Use present continuous

1-     For actions happening at the moment of speaking and not finished 

Example: sorry I am busy at the moment? …..i am doing my homework

2-     For continuing unfinished actions which are not actually happening at the moment of speaking with verbs like work ,  learn,  read,  study

Example: what are you doing in science?…..were learning about the universe 

3-     For changing situations with verbs like become , get, grow , change, increase, or with expressions such as more and more

Example: the earth is becoming  warme?….more and more people are leaving the countryside.

4-     For a future arrangement with a time reference 

Example: were leaving tomorrow.

Guided practice

Perform groups of 4 members and perform and play for each use  (TIME 10 minutes)

 Assessment evaluation

Perform a continuous mid-term exam to see how much your knowledge is ( time 10 minutes) 

It's Friday evening and the Brown family are at home. Mrs Brown  (listen) to a concert on the radio and Mr Brown  (read) the newspaper. Mr Brown always (read) the newspaper in the evenings. Today he  (buy) it in the morning on his way to work and he  (keep) it in his briefcase all day. He  (start) reading it on the bus. Mrs Brown sometimes  (knit) in the evening but she  (not knit) tonight. She  (call) her sister who lives in Toronto a few hours ago and they  (talk) about the next Christmas holiday. She  (talk) to her sister once a week.

Present simple.

Introduction: In this topic I will explain to you about the simple present, it is very important that you know and memorize some rules that are useful when we are going to use this time.

I would make a power point presentation explaining the topic.

30 minutes to explain the theme and grammar.

5 minutes for questions.

10 minutes for activity.

The simple present is the most used time.

The simple present tense in English is used to describe an action that is regular, true or normal.

We use the present tense:

1. For repeatedor regular actions in thepresent time period.

• I take thetraintothe office.
• ThetraintoBerlin leaves everyhour.
• John sleeps eighthourseverynightduringtheweek.

2. Forf acts.

• ThePresident of The USA lives in The White House.
• A dog has fourlegs.
• We come fromSwitzerland.

3. For habits.

• I get up earlyeveryday.
• Carol brushes herteethtwice a day.
• They travel totheir country houseeveryweekend.

4. For thingsthat are always / generally true.

• It rains a lot in winter.
• TheQueen of England lives in Buckingham Palace.
• They speak English at work.

Verb Conjugation & Spelling

We form the present tense using the base form of the infinitive (with out the TO).

In general, in thet hird person we add 'S' in the third person.

Subject	Verb	TheRest of thesentence
I / you / we / they	speak / learn	English at home
he / she / it	speaks / learns	English at home

The spelling for the verb in the third person differs depending on the ending of that verb:

1. For verbs that end in -O, -CH, -SH, -SS, -X, or -Z weadd -ES in the  third person.

• go – goes
• catch – catches
• wash – washes
• kiss – kisses
• fix – fixes
• buzz – buzzes

2. For verbs that end in a consonant + Y, were move the Y and add -IES.

• marry – marries
• study – studies
• carry – carries
• worry – worries

NOTE: For verbs that end in a vowel + Y, we just add -S.

• play – plays
• enjoy – enjoys
• say – says

Questions in the Simple Present Tense

To make a question in English wenormally use Do orDoes. It has no translation in Spanish though it is essential to show we are making a question. It is normally put at the beginning of the question.

• Affirmative: Youspeak English.
  Question: Do youspeak English?

You will see that we add DO at the beginning of the affirmative sentence  to makeit a question. We use Do when the subjectis I, you, we or they.

• Affirmative: He speaks French.
  Question: Does he speak French?

When the subject is he, she or it, weadd DOES at the beginning to make the affirmative sentence a question. Notice that the letter S at the end of the verb in the affirmative Sentence (becauseitis in thirdperson) disappears in the question. We will see the reason why below.

We DON'T use Do or Does in questions that have the verb To Be or Modal Verbs (can, must, might, should etc.)

Activity: In the presentation you can see certain rules and uses of the simple present, choose one of the rules and create 5 sentences following what the rules ask .