Talking About Your Weekend
Aims
The Monday morning question, answered well: past simple in real chat, and a small story anyone can tell
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Answer the Monday Question Well
3 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Nadia's Very Small Story
Read a 160-word text about Nadia's Very Small Story
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Weekend Words
7 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Monday Morning, Past Simple
Gap-fill exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Find the Weekend Mistake
Error-correction exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Monday, Nine O'Clock
Role-play: It is Monday morning. Your manager stops by your desk with a coffee and asks about your weekend. Your job is to tell a small story in three parts. (8 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Let's Talk
4 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
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