NB: Look at the model provided and make sure you understand what MFP refer to here. See Units 2 and 7. For example, in number 4
in the table below, we do NOT mean 'What is the function of the lesson'!
1. What is the target form of the Past continuous
first conditional (both clauses)? (F) Affirmative form: Subject + Was/were + present participle
Example: Tom and Sam were playing tennis at 10:00 a.m. yesterday.
I was watching a Netflix movie.
2. What is the model sentence In warmer, I'll start by eliciting a question from the students'
you will elicit to begin your examples. "What were you doing this morning at 7 a.m.?" ", and
presentation? then elicit the affirmative: I had breakfast at 7:00 a.m., which I will
use as a model.
3. What are the negative and Model sentence in negative form: I wasn't having breakfast at 7
question (interrogative) forms of o’clock. I wasn’t at the gym at
your model sentence? (You might 5pm.
find there is more than one Form: subject + was/were + not + verb
possibility, but you only need to Model sentence in question form: What were you doing at 7 o’clock
show one negative and one this morning? (Or were
question, then analyse the forms.) you at the gym at 5pm?) it will depend on the students’ beginning
examples.
Form: Was/ Were +subject +verb?
4. What is the function? (M) We generally use the past continuous to write about acts and events
that occurred at a specific point in time. This is a simple concept to
grasp, and if pupils get it, they will be able to speak more freely
about their own experiences. This lesson also allows students to
draw on their own experiences. The past continuous tense is used
for a variety of purposes, including narrating a story or describing an
atmosphere, as well as before and after another action or event that
occurred, being interrupted by another action or event, before and
after a specific time and for a specific length of time, and before and
after a specific time and for a specific length of time.
, 5. What do students need to Stress and weak forms
know about the pronunciation, When the verb is presented in its affirmative form, it confirms that
including sentence stress and something happened in the past and that no words are being
intonation? (P) contracted. We simply add "not" between the auxiliary