Christmas and New Year Tense Review- Mimes
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Miming actions connected to the festive season, then talking about them with different tenses
Lesson Plan Content:
Christmas and New Year mimes tense review
Present Continuous mimes
Choose one of these actions and mime it until someone guesses correctly with “You are…”
visiting people shopping
doing a spring clean watching a film (= a movie)
watching TV skating
skiing sledging
cracking nuts pulling crackers
carving a roast (e.g. a roast turkey) telling jokes
eating sweets ( = candy) eating grapes
putting up Christmas decorations going for a walk
decorating a Christmas tree arguing
ripping the wrapping paper off a gift writing Christmas cards
linking arms and singing singing Auld Lang Syne
praying giving a toast
putting on a paper party hat eating/ drinking soup
singing Christmas carols make an offering of food and/ or drink
knocking on neighbours’ doors and singing playing a musical instrument
making a snowman throwing snowballs
opening a bottle of champagne cutting a cake into slices
pouring gravy on to your dinner putting some meat into the oven
lighting fireworks watching fireworks
working travelling by train
dressing up in a Santa Claus costume kissing someone
hanging up a stocking putting gifts into a stocking
putting gifts into a shoe eating fish
lighting candles. putting decorations on to a cake
Ask about any actions which you don’t understand, are not sure how to mime, etc.
Past Continuous mimes
Continue the same game, but shouting “Stop” when you are sure what action it was and guessing with the past sentence “(When I shouted ‘stop’), you were…”
Past tenses guessing game
Choose one of the things above and give your partner clues about which one you are thinking about by telling them about you and that thing in the past, e.g. “I have done this once or twice” “I didn’t do this last Xmas” “I last did this 3 weeks ago”
Grammar presentation
What are the names of the four tenses in the example sentences above? What are the differences between them?
Which tense or tenses can be used with each of these time expressions?
twice (in my life) at this time last year
when my mother came in and interrupted me on Xmas Day
two years ago when the clock struck 12 (three tenses possible)
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