A Day in My City *This is the third Unit in the book. After learning to describe routines
and talk about likes and dislikes (i.e., using Simple Present Tense) in
Units 1 and 2, now students are being taught to talk about events that
are happening at the moment of speech (i.e., Present Continuous
Tense).
*Grammar Topics
=Constructing grammatically correct affirmative, negative and
interrogative sentences in Simple Present and Present Continuous
Tenses
=Making grammatical transformations when talking about different
people, in different tenses
Aim(s):
*To check whether or not students know the rules of formation of
grammatically correct affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences
in Simple Present and Present Continuous Tense
*Actively involve Sts in the learning process by asking them to
transform sentences and evaluate their classmates’ work
Background
and
Procedures:
*This is the third Unit in the book. In Units 1 and 2, students focused
on describing routine actions such as habits, daily routines, scheduled
activities etc. That is, they learned about and used Simple Present
Tense.
*Unit 3 focuses on “present events”, and one of the objectives is:
“Students will be able to ask people questions about what they are
doing at the moment” (i.e., Present Continuous Tense).
*Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses have different
sentence formation rules, and the T has noticed that while some Sts are
doing well, others struggle to transfer their knowledge and skills to
new contexts and topics. To create a realistic picture of the topic that
students know and to diagnose the problems they experience, s/he
decides to use a Diagnostic Grammatical Transformation Task (see
Example 5b).
*Grammatical Transformation Formative Assessment Tasks:
