Purpose: To produce questions with appropriate intonation when asking about actions in progress.
Teacher asks a question to the group. What are the verbs that begin with the letter a?
Mimes
Guess what I am doing. (Mime these activities).
making a sandwich, drinking tea, making pizza, driving a car, using a computer, doing the dishes, eating fish, washing my hair, waiting for a bus, eating a boiled egg, watching football on TV, doing sums.
Work in two teams. Take turns to mime a continuous action for your group to guess.
Score a point if they can guess your mime within thirty seconds.
1. Listen and read.
2. Reflect on language.
Read the sentences and answer the questions.
She´s fixing the car. He´s cooking breakfast. They´re washing their clothes.
When are the actions happening?
a) in the past b) in the future c) now
3. In groups of three, role-play a dialogue similar to the one in exercise 1.
4. Click on the presentation below.
5. Complete the crossword.
Presprog.html
6. Students describe the pictures and predict what the song is about.
Play the song.
7. They use what they learnt.
8. Write an e-mail to Sergio.
message
Hi, my name is Sergio! What are you doing at the moment? I'm having a snack and listening to my favorite music. Write to me.
Hi, my name's Sam!I'm watching my favorite TV show...
