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Activity 12
• The aim of this activity is for
students to interpret verb 12. Check the verb form you wrote on each card in the previous activity.
• Define its tense.
tenses in the examples • Discuss if the tense corresponds to the meaning. Look at the words that
provided. Mistakes should surround the verb.
be conceived as a chance • With your teacher's help, write the reason for writing the text on the back of
each card. Look at the example.
to learn that different forms
usually correspond to Remember
Example:
Example:
different uses. Regular verbs in This sentence uses Example: In this sentence, the
the adverb “just”
In this sentence, the
• It is important to know that the past tense add and the verb tense is verb is in the present verb is in the future
–ed at the end of
tense, and there are
no time expressions;
your students recognize that the verb (rain-ed); the past. Therefore, tense, and there are therefore, it refers to
verb forms in
they coincide
no time expressions;
verbs that refer to past (for the present tense in meaning. therefore, it refers to a future situation.
add an–s when
a present situation.
example, I was, vs. I have the subject is
in the third person
been) or future (I will vs I singular.
shall) are not interchangeable.
• Use the examples provided Building stage
so that your students may
detect how these brief For our forecast
explanations are composed 13. With your teacher's help, write questions in the space provided below
(what they begin with; how and use it as a guide for your forecast. Look at the example.
are they organized; what are Topic: Living conditions
they focused, etc.)
Questions:
Activity 13 What has changed in our home and hometown?
What are the current living conditions where we live?
• Since these questions will What will our life be like after secondary school?
serve as the basis for the What new developments will be achieved?
dialogue they will sustain Questions
later, it is important to take
some time to check grammar
aspects about tenses.
• Help your students to make
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tenses and notice how they
may change when using
them during a dialogue. Remember, sometimes there are divergences between the expected
tense and the time they refer to. Thus, it is important that your students get aware of these mismatches,
since they are the foundations of a natural-sounding interaction (and not a rigid and artificial one).
• Whether questions are convenient for the forecast.
• Make explicit the structure of the question (interrogation sign and the end, word order, use of
question words).
• Consider that going back to a previous activity allows your students to understand that learning is a
process. Remember, this educational approach conceives learning as a spiral process: you may go
backwards to consolidate or review, and then you may go up a little higher.
• Remember these activities will be used to build an answer later.

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