From Clicks to Motion

In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and communicative skills through structured activities focused on past perfective and imperfective aspect in main clauses. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the difference between simple past and past progressive forms, including their habitual, completed, or ongoing meanings, and to distinguish between snapshot (perfective) and video (imperfective) interpretations of events. Through referential and affective activities, students read sentences, match them to images, evaluate aspectual meanings, and discuss their personal experiences, reinforcing accurate understanding of aspect in meaningful contexts. Pair and group work promote active engagement, peer correction, self-monitoring, and confidence in expressing past events with the appropriate aspect.