On a School Trip: Practicing the Present Continuous
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On a School Trip: Practicing the Present Continuous

This ESL lesson plan focuses on grammar and reading, helping students practice the present continuous tense in a group setting. The lesson includes engaging discussions, a short text about a school trip, comprehension exercises, and sentence-building activities. Students will identify Present Continuous verbs, understand their usage, and create their own sentences to reinforce learning. Perfect for A1-A2 learners in a group environment!

Skills

  • Can produce brief everyday expressions in order to satisfy simple needs of a concrete type: personal details, daily routines, wants and needs, requests for information.
  • Can understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.
Online Interactive
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1

In pairs, discuss the following questions.

1
Do you like going on school trips? Why or why not?
2
How often do you have school trips?
3
What activities do you enjoy doing during school trips?
2

Read the story. Then, answer the questions below by finding at least one sentence in the story that describes what they are doing.

3

Read the grammar rule.

4

Complete the sentences from the story with the correct present continuous verb.

5

Make sentences from these words using the present continuous.

6

Imagine you are on a school trip right now! Choose 3 verbs and create sentences in the present continuous to describe what students are doing on the trip. Share your sentences with the class.

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