PAST SIMPLE VS PAST CONTINUOUS PICTURE GAME

A lesson plan for ESL teachers.

I believe that students learn so much faster when they compete, play and generally have fun. I also believe that students remember vocabulary and grammar much better when they see it in a context or a picture. These videos are perfect to conduct a picture quiz and learn new words and structures at the same time. How? It's very simple.

1. You can divide your students into two competing teams or...
*You can also play YOUR STUDENTS VS YOU. I tried this a few times and it was lots of fun. When students guess correctly what is in the picture they get 2 points if they don't you get 3 points (sounds a bit unfair but my students usually won anyway:)
2. Students can see only a small part of a picture.
They have to be observant or sometimes use their intuition and guess what happened.
3. Students have to use only English while consulting in groups
If they don't comply they lose a point.

4. Play the video and pause it where necesarry so students could have enough time
to read all options and come up with an answer
(but not too much time, remember this is supposed to be a fast paced game)

5. The second part ot the video is a revision of the whole material.
Read the whole text (with gaps) aloud with students
to check if they remember everything. 

Hope it will be fun!!!

 Let me know how it went!!!