ESL WORKSHEET - What are they doing?

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

LinguaHouse

Dec. 4, 2024

Level: Starter (A0-A1)
Type of English: General English
Tags: Describing Pictures and Photos; Routines and Activities; Verb Be; Speaking; Vocabulary and Grammar; 13-15 Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old; 10-12 Years Old
Publication date: 12/04/2024

In this lesson, students develop their conversational skills by describing what people are doing in the context of everyday life. First, they look at a street scene and answer questions about what they can see. They then identify a set of verbs before listening to two people describing the picture and completing the sentences. There is a focus on the use of the present continuous tense and then the students practice the language in a range of student-centered tasks. The lesson finishes with a communicative task which involves the students describing and comparing pictures. There is a final game to review the language. (by Victoria Aitken)

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AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

Lisa: Well, it is a picture of a street. There are some buildings, cars, people, and some birds.
Tommy: And a park, I can see a woman walking her dogs.
Lisa: Oh yes, and a woman is carrying her shopping bags and a boy riding a scooter. And a mother and son walking along the street.
Tommy: I can see one man standing outside the cafe and three people above in the apartment.
Lisa: And a man riding a bike.
Tommy: I can see one bird flying and two birds sitting in the building.
Lisa: And a girl looking out the window.
Tommy: It is a busy street.
Lisa: Yes, it is.

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