Past habits
Can you talk about your life story in English? Can you use the past simple to say what your life was like before?
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Storylines
A speaking and listening activity to help learners practise narrative tenses for storytelling. Aimed at lower level learners and above.
Anna's wet day out
Help students to plan and write a narrative in five easy stages
One of those days: past perfect
Have you ever had a really bad day? Watch the video of Anne talking about when she had one of those terrible days.
Write about past events in your life
Do you need to write emails to say what happened to you in the past tense? Read Samran’s email where she tells her friend Susan about how she found a new job and then complete the activities.
Used to
Have you heard the phrases ‘used to’ in English? Do you know what it means? Did you know that it has more than one meaning?
Presenting a personal history
This lesson focuses on the past simple, past continuous and past perfect tenses in the context of biographies and culminates in students giving a short presentation about a famous person.
Talking about the future
In this simple lesson students will have a chance to speak freely about different aspects of their future life, while the teacher guides them (with the students' help) to the best available grammar forms in order to do so.
The Titanic and the third conditional
This is a way to consolidate the form of the third conditional. it is best used at the end of the first lesson in which students meet the form, or at the latest the one after.
A job interview
This lesson is based on a short video, which shows someone going for a job interview. Learners develop their knowledge about applying for jobs and the interview process. They will develop their listening skills, learn new vocabulary, revise the past simple tense as well as take part in a mock job interview.