Grammar Lesson Plan: Past Continuous and Past Simple

GRAMMAR LESSON PLAN · 90 minutes · ready to teach, with photocopiables

A ready-to-teach 90-minute lesson on telling stories with the past continuous for the background and the past simple for the events. It follows the Start IELTS learner lesson Grammar – Past Continuous and Past Simple, available at startielts.co.uk. It works in the classroom or online, and suits pre-intermediate classes and above, with extra material for stronger learners at every stage.

What’s in the lesson:

What were you doing at…? A class survey
The long line and the point: when and while made clear
Act It Out: they were having dinner, or they had dinner?
When the Lights Went Out: a party memory game
Alibi: who ate the teacher’s birthday cake?
Story Starters: scene, event, result

You get stage-by-stage notes with timings, online notes, a board plan, common mistakes, answers and three photocopiables.