Past & Present Continuous, Past & Present Simple Tenses Review- ESL Lesson (3:5)

This resource is a ready-to-teach PowerPoint presentation providing all the information and activities required to review the past and present continuous/ progressive tenses and the past and present simple tenses. Suitable for both child and adult learners, this resource can be used online or in the classroom and is suitable for one-to-one or groups of learners.

Created by Teacher Kaylee, a fully-qualified international school teacher, this lesson can be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as part of the Firefly Learner ESL English course (this lesson is unit 3, lesson 5).

This resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson which reviews the past and present continuous and simple tenses. It includes starter and plenary activities, teaching explanations and differentiated consolidation activities.

LO: To review the past continuous, the past simple, the present continuous and the present simple tenses

Success Criteria:
•I can identify sentences in the past simple, past continuous, present simple and present continuous
•I can explain why we use each tense.
•I can distinguish between plural and singular subjects.
•I can explain the differences between when we use was and were, is and are.
•I can construct sentences in each tense.

The presentation includes the following:
✔ Learning objective and success criteria
✔ Starter and plenary activities
✔ Assessment of prior knowledge
✔ Teaching input (vocabulary & meanings, sentence construction, grammar points, explanations about how and when to use each tense etc.)
✔ Differentiated independent and team consolidation tasks (3 levels)
✔ Speaking, reading, writing and grammar tasks
✔ Application activities and extension activities