Listening Boarding Schools & Present Simple & Continuous

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

A quiet start of every lesson

Reading! 

In your mreader book or another. 

or: 

Start studying vocabulary Unit 4 in Classroom

(write words in your notebook, wrts or quizlet)

Close your Chromebook. 

Put Wider World book, notebook and pen on the table.

What's the plan for today?

At the end of this lesson you can:

• find specific detail in a radio programme.
• talk about boarding schools
• use Present Simple and Present Continuous correctly.

Exit ticket: write down the title of a book you have read or a film or series you have seen for Christmas.

Open your book on page 51

Listening and vocabulary: boarding schools.

• What is a boarding school?
• Do you know someone from a boarding school?

Before you start a listening exercise: 

• think about what it might be about (pictures? title?)
• check the questions if there are any.

Exercises 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 - p. 51

First: look at the exercises, read what you have to do.

Questions? 

Then: we listen to the audio (2.07, 2.08, 2.09) together.

You do the exercises alone, write in your notebook. 

Finished early? Do exercise 7 & compare your ideas with your neighbour.

Then we check the answers.

Pupils eat breakfast in their rooms

1. True
2. False

Pupils don't have a long walk to their classrooms.

1. True
2. False

Classes finish at four o'clock, from Monday to Saturday

1. True
2. False

Students study in the evenings from 7.15 p.m. to 9 p.m.

1. True
2. False

Students have an hour to relax before bed.

1. True
2. False

What time do you usually ... to school?

1. stop
2. start
3. go
4. visit

Do students at your school ... classes on Saturday mornings?

1. have
2. learn
3. make
4. do

When do you usually do your ... ?

1. classes
2. homework
3. school

Do you enjoy revising ... exams.

Close your Chromebook. 

Recap: Present Simple / Present Continuous.

What do you remember?

Present Simple

• When you talk about a fact / habit/routine.                           
• Shit-rule: He/she/it + infinitive + s
• Signal words: every day/month/year, usually, always, often, never, etc.

(To walk) I always walk to school.             

He/she/it walks to school every week.

(To  work)  You  work on Mondays.

He/she often works at home. 

Present Continuous

• Use when you are doing it RIGHT NOW.
• Am/is/are + verb + ing
• Signal words: right now, at the moment, currently, now etc.

(To walk)

I am walking in a forest now.

He is walking to school at the moment.

We are walking to the shop right now.

Practice time

https://www.liveworksheets.com/dn908913vs (present continuous vs present simple)

https://www.liveworksheets.com/hr39728hk (present simple)

(links in classroom update)

Finished? Start homework: online assignment 4.5.

Exit ticket

Write down the title of 

• a nice book you have read 
• or a film or series you have seen for Christmas.

What was the plan for today?

At the end of this lesson you can:

• find specific detail in a radio programme.
• talk about boarding schools
• use Present Simple and Present Continuous correctly.

Exit ticket: write down the title of a book you have read or a film or series you have seen for Christmas.

Homework for Friday

Finish online assignment 4.5.

& 

Study Word list Unit 4.