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Covering up with Microsoft Paint

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

What’s going on?

This is a funny picture story that I have come accross a few times on the internet. I used Microsoft Paint to cover up the subject in each image, showed the series to my students and asked them to guess what was going on.
Microsoft paint is a free and simple program that […]

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Tags: Creative writing · Lesson plans · Past simple · Writing

15 Things to do before you die (a lesson plan)

June 7th, 2008 · No Comments

(This lesson plan can be downloaded on pdf file here:
15-things-to-do-before-you-die.pdf)
Here is an idea for raising awareness of the pronunciation of the past and past participle forms of regular verbs.
1. Write the following verbs on the board

Plant
Write
Milk
Appear
Catch
Do
Donate
Dye
Have
Invent
Meet
Participate
Photocopy
Save
Visit

2. Write “101 things to do before you die” on the board and tell your students that it is […]

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Tags: Grammar · Lesson plans · Past simple · Present perfect