Language Area: Tense

The Journey of Athletes

This running dictation activity turns learning into a fun, collaborative game. Learners work in pairs or small groups, moving between reading and writing tasks, which encourages active participation and communication. While enjoying the game, learners naturally produce language and focus on noticing and correctly using the present perfect progressive and past perfect progressive tenses.

Travel Time

This lesson uses a Dictogloss activity, a collaborative game, where learners work together to reconstruct a short text after listening to it. Through this fun and interactive process, learners practice producing language while focusing on the use of the simple past and simple future tenses, helping them understand how verb forms connect to their meanings.

Tense it up!

The lesson aims to help learners distinguish and correctly use the Present Continuous, Simple Past, and Simple Future tenses in English through processing instruction. Learners are guided to focus on both form and meaning by first comprehending input rather than producing sentences immediately. Activities are designed to draw learners’ attention to how time references and verb forms indicate ongoing actions, completed events, and future plans. Through structured comprehension tasks, learners develop an accurate understanding of tense usage, which will later support more precise production.

Training for Success: The journey of Athletes

In this English lesson, students develop listening comprehension, grammar awareness, and collaborative skills through two engaging stories about sports. Using the dictogloss technique, learners listen to narratives about training and competitions, take notes with visual support, and reconstruct the texts from memory. The lesson focuses on present perfect progressive and past perfect progressive, helping students notice and use forms such as have/has been practicing and had been training in context. Through pair or group work, learners practice accuracy, recall, and teamwork while improving strategies for active listening. By comparing their reconstructions with the original texts, students enhance self-correction skills and gain confidence in describing ongoing and past activities in English.

Yesterday and Tomorrow

In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and communicative skills through structured activities focused on Simple Past and Simple Future Tenses. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the differences in form and meaning, including how different verb forms indicate actions in the past, present, or future. Through referential and affective activities, students read, listen, categorize verbs according to time, and discuss their own routines and plans, while also comparing answers with classmates. Pair and group work promote active engagement, peer correction, self-monitoring, and confidence in accurately expressing events that have occurred or will occur, reinforcing meaningful understanding of English tense usage.

Trips

In this English lesson, students strengthen their listening comprehension, grammar awareness, and collaborative skills through two engaging texts about travel experiences. Using the running dictation technique, learners listen to short narratives, note key information, and reconstruct the texts from memory. This activity focuses on Simple Past and Simple Future Tenses, helping students notice and apply correct verb forms in context. Through group or pair work, learners practice accuracy, recall, and teamwork while developing strategies for active listening and language retention. By comparing their reconstructed versions with the original texts, students enhance self-correction skills, expand vocabulary related to travel and leisure activities, and build confidence in using English to describe past experiences and future plans.

Actions in Time

In this English lesson, students develop grammar awareness, comprehension, and communicative skills through structured activities focused on present perfect progressive and past perfect progressive. Following the Processing Instruction approach, learners are guided to notice the differences in form and meaning, including whether an action is ongoing or completed, and how duration is expressed through the use of have/had + been + -ing. Through referential and affective activities, students listen, read, complete multiple-choice tasks, and evaluate statements, while also engaging in discussions about general knowledge and personal experiences. Pair and group work promote active engagement, peer correction, self-monitoring, and confidence in accurately expressing actions with the appropriate progressive tense and duration.

Trips

In this English lesson, students explore vocabulary related to travel and destinations while learning to recognize and use different verb tenses. Through engaging activities such as picture-based discussions, listening exercises, and a running dictation game, students connect language learning with real-world contexts. They compare how time and verb forms are expressed in English and in their L1, enhancing their grammatical awareness and multilingual competence. The lesson fosters collaboration, active participation, and curiosity about different places and cultures.