Present continuous, guided discovery

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1-4

Teaching grammar

Guided discovery

What group?

MBO students 

(lesson fully done in English//refresher course)

(you could also give it to mavo students but then you'll need to add some dutch into it)

Goal

At the end of this lesson you know how to write about what you're doing right now. 

Game!

Get a verb from the stack of cards and portray it. The person that guesses right gets a point. If someone guesses it within 15 seconds the person that's portraying the verb gets a point as well! 

What is it doing?

Walking

What about this one?

Sleeping

What is she doing?

Tasting

Cooking

What is happening to the verb?

When are these things happening?

Quick question!

How are we going to spell these?

move 

move - moving

make 

make - making

drive 

drive - driving

hope 

hope - hoping

What is changing?

move - moving

make - making

drive - driving

hope - hoping

move - moving

make - making

drive - driving

hope - hoping

What is changing?

The -e gets replaced by -ing

What about these?

Plan

Plan - Planning

Run

Run - Running

Swim

Swim - Swimming

Stop

Stop - Stopping

So, what happened?

Plan - Planning

Run - Running

Swim - Swimming

Stop - Stopping

So, what happened?

The words got an extra consonant

(medeklinker)

Let's practice!

I .......... (listen) to music at the moment.

1. am listening
2. are listening
3. is listening

Look! The dog .......... (play) with the ball.

1. is play
2. is playing
3. are play
4. are playing

Max Verstappen .......... (race) at the track.

1. is raceing
2. are racing
3. is racing
4. are racing

We .......... (drink) some tea.

1. am drinking
2. are drinking
3. is drinking

It .......... (rain) right now.

1. is raining
2. are raining