Language and Content: Review of Perfect Tenses

GRADES 3-5; 6-8; 9-12

VOCABULARY

LESSON PROCEDURE

Vocabulary

1. Watch the Vocabulary movie to introduce the new words, stopping to ask questions, give examples, and ask students to make connections to the words.
2. Have students silently fill out the Before column of the Anticipation Guides. More about Anticipation Guides here. Suggested statements are:
   • Steam engines were the first kind of transportation.
   • When the steam engine was first invented, people rushed to buy tickets.
   • The first trains were electric.
   • Today, there are trains that don’t have wheels.

3. Project the picture side of Flash Words onto the board or interactive white board. Students label the words they know and then flip the pictures to check if they are correct.

Grammar

1. Short Answer Cards. Divide the class into small groups and give each group 4-5 of the Short Answer Cards. Have them work together to think of a question for each answer.
   
   For example:
   

   Answer card: Yes, I have.
   Question: Have you eaten breakfast yet?
   Each group then reads their questions and answers to the class, and the whole class decides if they are correct or not.
2. Using the image What Has Been Happening Here?, have pairs of students make up a story that incorporates the tenses learned in this unit: past simple, present perfect, present perfect progressive, and past perfect. Note: any other kind of action image may also be used. When they have finished, have them share the stories with the class.

Movie

1. The movie opens with Ben and Moby at a garage sale. Ask students if they have ever been to a garage sale, or if they have ever had one, and to share a story.
2. Watch the movie Trains Have Changed (L3U3L5).
3. Have pairs of students practice mini dialogues with phrases from the movie.
   
   For example:
   

   A: Where have you been? I’ve been waiting for hours!
   B: I’ve been _____________________.

4. During the movie, have students check the answers on their Anticipation Guides. After the movie, have them complete the After column, and discuss if their answers are different.

Features

1. Watch Hear It, Say It. Students may listen and repeat sentences from the movie.
2. Students do the remaining interactive features of the lesson: Play It, Warm Up, and You Can Do It.