Unit 5 - Lesson 2 PS/PC + reading

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ENGLISH

Present Simple / Present Continuous

Reading

Planning final period

Grade testweek? 

School completely open 1-6?  YES

School (partly) closed 1-6?       NO

22-29 May	reading (o/v/g - no grade)
17-23 June (testweek)	Unit 5 + reading

Unit 5 - Storytime

Grammar: 

• present simple vs. present continuous (I walk/ I am walking)
• past simple vs. past continuous (I walked / I was walking)
• Much / Many / A lot of / a little / little / a few / few
• direct / indirect speech
  ("I like cake," he said. / He said he liked cake)

Vocabulary pages 172-177

In class today:

1. Repeat present simple / present continuous

(watch the video OR read the slides)

2. Present simple / present continuous exercises

3. Reading exercises

4. Vocabulary exercises

Present Simple

When	Something that happens: * regularly / frequently * always / never * schedule
How	I/you/we/they walk he/she/it walk s
Signal words	always, never, often, sometimes, on Tuesday, every month
Example	He always make s his homework.

Present Continuous

When	When something happens now . Something that happens for a while .
How	I am walk ing he/she/it is walk ing you/we/they are walk ing
Signal words	now, at the moment,
Example	The police are investigat ing the murder on the Prince.

Let's practise 

Fill in the correct form of the verbs between (brackets). 

Always pick between the present simple or present continuous. 

Witnesses ___ (say) that the wolf ate the pigs.

Police ____ (question) a man on suspicion of murder.

They ___ (ask) anyone who has any information to contact them.

The man ____ (claim) that the gold came from a castle in the sky.

There ___ (be) still no news of the two children who went missing.

The prince ____ (hope) that he can rescue the princess.

I ___ (think) they are great stories.

I ____ (wonder) what ____ (happen) at home.

Reading 

Read the text on page 150 of your RealTime book. 

"Rip Van Winkle"

Then, answer the questions on the next slides in English. 

When is the story set?
(When does it take place?)

Why does Rip take a walk in the mountains?

What happens while Rip is sleeping?

How does the story end?

Vocabulary

On the next slides, fill in the missing words. 

You can find the words in the story "Rip Van Winkle" on page 150.

Rip's wife complains a lot. She ___ her husband all day long.

His grandparents moved from Amsterdam to Detroit in 1948, so he is of Dutch ____.

Every morning they have to sweep the floor, make the bed and do the dishes, but they hate these ___.

In the cellar, we found several bottles of wine and three ___ of beer.

I don't understand why he did that and I will tell him that it ___ me.

She never complains and is always happy and ____.

The End! 

This is the end of the lesson, well done. 

If you have any questions, you can ask them on the next slide. 

You questions will be answered in the next lesson. 

Please write down your questions here.