Unit 5 - Lesson 1/2 combi

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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

Video

In the next video, Thomas Sanders makes up stories about the lives of strangers. 

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Storytime
Tell the story of this picture in 1 sentence.

Rerun

On the next slides, you will see a rerun of the Present Simple and Present continuous. 

Present Simple: She eats apples every day. 

Present Continuous: I am eating an apple right now.

Present Simple

When	* facts * emotions * opinions * regular / frequently *always/never * schedule/timetable
How	I/you/we/they walk he/she/it walk s
Signal words	always, never, often, sometimes, on Tuesdays, 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. 

You only have to write down the right verb.

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.