Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Daily Routines Chain
a) Aims
Period 1. Ss recall the present simple and present continuous and identify the difference between a routine and an action happening now.
b) Content
T asks a chain of quick questions. Ss answer orally, then write one answer on a mini whiteboard. Questions: 'What do you do every evening?' (routine); 'What are you doing right now?' (temporary action); 'Do you know the answer to this question?' (state). Ss who answer correctly pass the question to a partner.
c) Expected outcomes
Ss give short answers with the correct tense, for example: 'I wash the dishes every evening.' (present simple, routine) and 'I am reading this lesson now.' (present continuous, action now). Ss state the rule in their own words: routines and states use the present simple; actions happening now use the present continuous.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T introduces the game 'Daily Routines Chain' and models two questions with the answers. T says: 'Listen carefully. Answer with a full sentence and write it on your mini whiteboard.'
Students
Ss listen, repeat the instructions and get ready their whiteboards.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks questions one by one and moves around to check the whiteboards.
Students
Ss answer orally and write. Expected answers: 'I brush my teeth every morning.' / 'I am sitting in class now.' / 'I know the answer.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T asks: 'Why do we say I know, not I am knowing?' and 'Why do we use the present continuous for now?'
Students
Ss answer: 'Know is a state verb, so it is not used in the continuous.' / 'Now shows an action in progress.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T summarises on the board: Present simple = routines and states (Linh washes the dishes every evening). Present continuous = temporary activity now (She is revising now). T reminds Ss that know, understand and want describe states.
Students
Ss copy the summary into their notebooks.