Unit 2. Personal experiences

METHODOLOGY 7A
MATERIAL ADAPTATION
Tieng Anh 11 (Basic)
Unit 2: Personal Experience.
Part : Language focus
Instructor:

Group: 03

Doan Ngoc Ai Phuong

1.Nguyen Thi Giang
2.Hoang Thi Gang
3.Tran Thi Dung
4.Hoang Thi Ngoc Na
5.Ho Thi Thanh Huong
6.Bui Thi Mai Ly
7.Pham Thi Thuy Linh


CLASS PROFILE
LEVEL: GRADE 11
AGE: 17 YEARS OLD
CLASS SIZE: 40 STUDENTS


PURPOSE:
+ Help Ss to get acquainted with topic relating to Personal

Experience

+ Develop: 1.Present simple indicating past time.
2.Tense revision: the past simple, past progressive and past perfect
+ Help students to communicate and interact with other people.


General evaluation

1.Pros

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The content of the exercises is practical
 relating to present simple indicating past time, past simple, past progressive and past
perfect

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There are some exercises therefore students have many opportunities to practise.


2. Cons

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It is not really interesting
It is so easy for students so they don’t need to brainstorm when doing these exercises.


Adapted activity

I. Practice
Exercise 1: Fill in the blank
1. Aims:

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To make the task more interesting.
To help students become more active and
flexible

2. Technique: Changing


3. Procedure:
be

live

set

promise

get

Activity: Use the correct present tense forms of the verb in the box to fill in the blank
carry wave

shine invite

sing

The story is about a girl called Little Red Riding Hood who lives with her mother. Little Red Riding Hood’s
grandmother…… her to her cottage, so one fine day she ……ready, ……goodbye to her mother and…..to be
careful. On her arm she…….. a basket which contains a cake her mother has baked specially. It…..a lovely
spring morning, the sun….. and the birds……, feeling happy that the winter is over.


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Step 1:
T gives instruction
(You have to work individually and use the correct present tense forms of the verb in the box to fill in
the blank. You have 3 minutes to do it. )

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Step 2:

After 3 minutes, T calls some students to give their answers and gives feedback.


Task in book
Exercise 2: Describe the pictures

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Aims:
To help students become more active &
enthusiastic in class
To increase the interaction between members
in group.
To give students a chance to develop the
creative ability.

2. Technique: Replacing


3. Procedure:

 Step 1: Teacher divides the whole class into 4 groups.
 Step 2: T gives instruction
( I have 5 pictures here. You have to describe these pictures by using the past simple or past progressive.
You have 5 minutes to discuss in your group, after that I will call each group’s representative to write
down the answers on the board . Which group has the best answers will be the winner.)

 Step 3: T sticks pictures on the board.
 Step 4: After 5 minutes, T checks the answers & gives feedback.


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Lisa was sleeping while her mother was cooking.





Exercise 3: Fill in the blank

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Aims:
To help students distinguish between
the past simple and the past perfect.

2. Technique: Changing

Task in book


3. Procedure:
Activity: Choose the suitable verb in the bracket and put it into the past simple or the past perfect to fill in the blanks.

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They…….everything by the time I …..at the party. ( arrive, eat)
When I…..my purse, someone…...the money out of it. (find, take )
By the time I…….into town, the shops…… (close, get).
When they……to the station, the train……. ( get, leave)
By the time you……..her letter, she……in Paris. ( arrive, get)
The police…….no attention to Clare’s complaint because she ……them so many times before. (pay, phone)
I……to the post office to ask about my package, but they…..that it…...yet (say, go, not arrive )
When I……..At the new dress for half an hour, I……. How much it……….(cost, look, at)


 Step 1:
T gives instruction

 Step 2:
T gives ss handouts with cues

 Step 3:
After 3 minutes, T checks the answers & gives

feedback.


II. Production:

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Aim(s) :
To help students have a chance to practise the past simple, past progressive and past
perfect in an activity.
To help students feel excited and relaxing by playing a small game.

2. Technique: Adding


3. Procedure:
Activity: Noughts and Crosses
Cues:
1. When the phone rang, I …

1
4

2
5

3
6

2. When John and I got to the theatre, the movie…
3.Yesterday Mai went home after she…
4. After Alice had called her family, she …

7

8

9

5. While my father was reading a newspaper, I …
6. While we were having dinner, the light…
7. It was the first time I…
8. When I saw Tim, he …
9. The children were playing football when their mother…


 Step 1: T puts a table on the board with 9 numbers, then divides the whole class into 2 groups A & B
 Step 2: T gives instruction of this game.
( Each group will take turn to choose the number and make a sentence with its cue. If the sentence is
correct, I will put mark( “O” or “ X” ) in the number that you choose. The first group to get three – in –
a row ( across, down, or diagonally) will be winner.

 Step 3:
T sticks poster with the cues on the board.

 Step 4:
After 5 minutes, T checks answer and give feedback


GOOD BYE!

Thank you for your attention