Unit 2

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Course Description

  • Level of learners
    Undergraduate students at level A2 based on CEFR standard.
  • Class accommodation
    30 students.
  • Objectives
    1. ask and describe a person orally.
    2. ask and answer about daily routine or ongoing activities orally.
  • Target tasks
    1. Students understand how to use simple present tense and “have/has got” to ask and describe a person.
    2. Students understand how to use present continuous tense to ask and answer about ongoing activities.

PERIOD 1

Describing Ongoing Activities

How to Use Present Continuous Tense


We can use present continuous tense to describe ongoing activities.

• Affirmative:
[S + am/is/are + Ving]
Ex: I am going to the cinema.

• Negative:
[S + am/is/are + NOT + Ving]
Ex: I am NOT going to the cinema. I am at home.

• Question:
[(Wh-Question) + am/is/are + S + Ving … ?]
Ex1: Where are you going?
Ex2: Are you going to the cinema? 

Practice

Talk with Andy. Describe the following ongoing activities:

• The clothes you are wearing.
• The lessons you are learning.
• The clothes your friend is wearing.
• The clothes your teaching is wearing.

Ex: I am wearing a blue T-shirt. I am learning English in the class…

Production

Select ONE of the given topics and talk with Andy. Describe the ongoing activities.

• A festival taking place in your hometown.
• An activity you are doing.
• A movie you are watching.
• A genre of music you are listening.

Ex: I am listening to music now. It is a hip hop song. I like hip-hop very much...

* Submit the recordings and screenshots of the chat sessions to teacher for assessment HERE.

PERIOD 2

Describing Present Activities

How to Use Present Simple Tense and Has/Have Got.

We can use present simple tense and “has/have got” to describe present activities.

• Affirmative:
[S + Vs/Ves/Vinf + …]
[S + has/have + got …]

Ex1: He normally designs clothes for the rich.
Ex2: He has got three years of experience.

• Negative:
[S + do/does + NOT + Vinf]
[S + has/have + NOT + got …]

Ex1: She does NOT drink beer.
Ex2: She has not got comfortable.

• Question:
[(Wh-Question) + do/does + S + Vinf … ?]
[Has/Have + S + got … ?]

Ex1: What does she do for living?
Ex2: What has she got from the job? 

Practice

Talk with Andy. Describe the following present activities:

• What you do in the morning.
• What you do in the afternoon.
• What you do in the evening.
• What you do on weekends.

Ex: I normally get up early in the morning. I have lunch in the afternoon. I have got lunch with rice and stewed pork…

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Production

Look at the photo and talk with Andy. Describe the photo to Andy.

Ex: I see many people in the picture. A man is standing behind a woman. He has got a hat. Another woman normally looks at somewhere…

* Submit the recordings and screenshots of the chat sessions to teacher for assessment HERE.

PERIOD 3

Practice Pronunciation

Type in the words you found difficult on Cambridge Online Dictionary to listen to the pronunciation of the words and orally repeat after listening to practice pronunciation.

Production

Select ONE of the given pictures and talk with Andy. Describe the picture to Andy.

* Submit the recordings and screenshots of the chat sessions to teacher for assessment HERE.
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