READY Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 131
Grammar
Grammar
Course Book page 84
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Before teaching the grammar form, remind pupils of the scenario that they read on page 72. Remind
pupils that the scenario included positive, negative, and question form.
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Ask pupils to look at the sentences in the Course Book.
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Introduce the Present Simple (questions).
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Review the Present Simple, its uses in English and its positive/negative forms.
Explain that in order to make a question in the Present Simple, we use "do" or "does" (for he/she/it)
in the beginning of the sentence. The subject then follows. Use L1 if needed.
Give example sentences for each pronoun in the Present Simple: Do I eat lunch at noon?
Do you eat lunch at noon? Does he eat lunch at noon? etc.
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Ask pupils to identify the subjects and verbs in the questions.
Remind pupils that sentences usually begin with a subject. Ask pupils to identify what these
sentences begin with (Elicit: Do/Does). Ask pupils what they think this means.
Tell pupils that in English we have two types of questions: Yes/No and “WH”. We will first learn the
Yes/No questions and then learn the “WH” questions. We begin a question with Do (or Does when
the subject is "He/She/It") (Use L1 if needed).
Explain to pupils that the answers (positive or negative) to the questions are often shortened
versions: Yes, I do (eat lunch at noon). Yes, you do (eat lunch at noon). No, she does not (eat lunch
at noon).
Extension: Remind more advanced pupils of the short forms of the negative sentences. Explain that for
the negative form, the short form combines do or does with the negation word not into one word.
Write Do you eat lunch at noon? No, I do not. on the board, cross out the letter o (in “not”), and
replace it with an apostrophe to write No, I don’t. Repeat for each of the short forms using the same
example sentence as above: Does he eat lunch at noon? No, he doesn't., etc.
Grammar Activity
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Do the activity to practice the form: Present Simple (questions)
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Sentence Builder (VA #20)
Before the lesson, prepare the Sentence Builder cards. You will need the following cards: subjects
(pronouns), verbs (for example: like, eat), auxiliary verbs (Do, Does), negation card (not) and noun
phrases (things) (for example: football, candy, ice cream, etc.), and a question mark.
Pass out the cards, one per pupil.
Have pupils stand in a line to create sentences. Say a sentence and have the pupils who hold the
correct cards stand at the front of the class. For example: (You) (like) (ice cream). Then change the
sentence into a question and have pupils change their order accordingly: (Do) (you) (like) (ice
cream) (?)
Say new sentences and questions by changing either the pronoun, verb, or noun phrase at a time.
Play a few times to have pupils practice building sentences, especially focusing on creating the
correct word order for question forms in the Present Simple.
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