An Earthquake! Past Simple or Past Continuous?

Wednesday 4^th February

Hi! We started a new month.

Natalia and Almudena were absent last class. I wonder if they were busy with exams or ill with flu (typical winter illness) Symptoms: a temperature, headache, backache and weakness. If you are ill, I hope you get better (recover) soon.

We started the class talking about The London Eye.

We revised how to say and write high numbers. We listened and gave the answers to a quiz. I see, you like quizzes!

· How high is Mount Kilimanjaro? (height)

·  How fast is a cheetah?               (speed)

·  How long is the river Nile?          (length)

The girls’ team beat the boys’ team!

 There were some more questions whose answers you should find. (This is homework)

·    How far is Cape Town from Cairo?  (distance)

·         How heavy is an African elephant?  (weight)

·         How deep is Lake Baikal?                (depth)

Find out the information for the questions above.

Then, we watched a picture of a house at the moment of an earthquake and use it to practice the use of past simple and past continuous.

Frequently, a short action (past simple) interrupts an action in progress (past continuous)

·         The woman in the dressing gown was cooking and she dropped the saucepan when the earthquake happened.

·         The baby was sleeping. When the earthquake happened, he woke up and started to cry.

·         The kids were playing. When the earthquake hit, they stood up and ran towards the door.

 We continued telling stories.

We followed the pictures and told the story of a strange event that happened to a policeman who was driving to his house in the evening, after work …

You are supposed to finish this story filling in (complete) the gaps with the suitable (appropriate) verb tense. This is homework. And don’t forget to get some materials for ‘Flipped Class’ Carnival and Saint Valentine’s. A song, a list of vocabulary and strategies to teach it, a story, Valentine’s cards, Carnival masks … Remember that the kids are 7-8 years old!

 

GAME 4                

Player 1	6
Player 2	8
Player 3	10
Player 4	---
Player 5	7
Player 6	5
Player 7	---

See you next Wednesday!