Assignment B - PPP Grammar Lesson Table: First Conditional
1. What is the target form of the first conditional
(both clauses)? (F)
Past continuous
Affi
... [Show More] rmative form: Subject + Was/were + present participle
Example: Tom and Sam were playing tennis at 10:00 a.m. yesterday. I was watching a Netflix
movie.
2. What is the model sentence you will elicit to
begin your presentation?
In warmer, I'll start by eliciting a question from the students' examples. "What were you
doing this morning at 7 a.m.?" ", and then elicit the affirmative: I had breakfast at 7:00 a.m.,
which I will use as a model.
3. What are the negative and question
(interrogative) forms of your model sentence?
(You might find there is more than one possibility,
but you only need to show one negative and one
question, then analyse the forms.)
Model sentence in negative form: I wasn't having breakfast at 7 o’clock. I wasn’t at the gym at
5pm.
Form: subject + was/were + not + verb
Model sentence in question form: What were you doing at 7 o’clock this morning? (Or were
you at the gym at 5pm?) it will depend on the students’ beginning examples.
Form: Was/ Were +subject +verb?
4. What is the function? (M) We generally use the past continuous to write about acts and events that occurred at a
specific point in time. This is a simple concept to grasp, and if pupils get it, they will be able to
speak more freely about their own experiences. This lesson also allows students to draw on
their own experiences. The past continuous tense is used for a variety of purposes, including
narrating a story or describing an atmosphere, as well as before and after another action or
event that occurred, being interrupted by another action or event, before and after a specific
time and for a specific length of time, and before and after a specific time and for a specific
length of time.
5. What do students need to know about the
pronunciation, including sentence stress and
intonation? (P)
Stress and weak forms
When the verb is presented in its affirmative form, it confirms that something happened in
the past and that no words are being contracted. We simply add "not" between the auxiliary
NB: Look at the model provided and make sure you understand what MFP refer to here. See Units 2 and 7. For example, in number 4 in the
table below, we do NOT mean 'What is the function of the lesson [Show Less]