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Speaking Activity

The document outlines a speaking activity designed to practice various past and present perfect tenses through storytelling and reflection. It includes warm-up questions, timeline storytelling, a speaking challenge, and reflection questions to engage students in using these tenses naturally. An optional homework assignment encourages students to write a short story using the target tenses for discussion in the next class.

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Speaking Activity

The document outlines a speaking activity designed to practice various past and present perfect tenses through storytelling and reflection. It includes warm-up questions, timeline storytelling, a speaking challenge, and reflection questions to engage students in using these tenses naturally. An optional homework assignment encourages students to write a short story using the target tenses for discussion in the next class.

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Speaking Activity: Moments That Changed Everything

Objective: To practice using a range of past and present perfect tenses in extended speaking, with a

focus on storytelling and reflection.

1. Warm-up - "Have You Ever...?" (10 minutes)

Aim: Activate present perfect simple/continuous

Instructions: Ask a series of personalized 'Have you ever...?' questions and follow-ups.

Example prompts:

- Have you ever learned a new skill as an adult?

- Have you been watching or reading anything interesting recently?

- How long have you lived in your current home?

- What have you been doing more often since retirement?

Follow-up questions should elicit details using past simple or continuous.

2. Timeline Storytelling - "Before and After" (20 minutes)

Aim: Practice past simple, past continuous, past perfect (simple and continuous)

Instructions:

1. Ask your student to think of an important life event.

2. Draw a timeline and prompt them to narrate what happened before, during, and after.

Guiding questions:

- What had you been doing before it happened?

- What exactly was happening when it began?

- What had changed as a result of that event?

- How long had you been thinking about it before you decided to take action?

- What were you doing at the time?


- How has your life changed since then?

3. Speaking Challenge - "Two Truths and a Lie: Life Edition" (15 minutes)

Aim: Use a mix of past and perfect tenses naturally in storytelling

Instructions: Ask the student to prepare three short stories from their life:

- Two true ones

- One false

They must use different tenses naturally. You'll ask questions to figure out which one is the lie.

4. Reflection - "Looking Back and Looking Ahead" (15 minutes)

Aim: Consolidate tense use in reflective speaking

Instructions: Ask reflection questions combining past and present perfect tenses.

Examples:

- What's something you've achieved that you're proud of?

- What's something you had hoped to do by now but haven't managed yet?

- How have your hobbies or interests changed over time?

- What had life been like before a big change?

Optional Homework / Extension

Ask your student to write a short story or anecdote from their life using the target tenses, which you

can discuss and correct in the next class.

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