Present Progressive and Prepositions of Place- Mix and Match
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Funny and sensible prepositions of position and Present Continuous matching activities.
Lesson Plan Content:
Present Continuous and prepositions of place mix and match
Instructions for teachers
There are two versions of this activity. The first one is given on one page to save paper and photocopying. However, the mix or match activity is usually best done as a whole book, with each page cut into flaps which are turned separately to make good and bad matches. This makes it similar to the many mix and match books in which the reader makes people, monsters, etc with odd matches of head, body and legs, or something like the classic book Do You Like Ketchup on Your Cornflakes?
There are also a few possible activities, but the best is usually to get one student to make a wrong, funny or crazy match and then for other students to make it more correct/ sensible while keeping as many parts the same as they can. All the options have at least one sensible match and at least one silly match.
To make a book, you need to staple the pages together on one side, perhaps after adding a cover, and then cut along the dotted lines. You could also add suitable pictures to some or all flaps, but doing it without pictures means that students will have to concentrate more on the meaning of the words.
After reading, students could draw suitable pictures on their own copy of the book. Another option is for each student to draw one picture of their favourite silly combination, instead of drawing pictures for every page.
They could also make their own versions of this mix and match activity, perhaps keeping the same starters but changing the other columns/ cards/ flaps.
Single page version
Make combinations of words from the different columns below, see if your partner accepts them, and if not see if they can make the combinations better by just changing one or two parts.
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I’m You’re/ You are He’s/ He is She’s/ She is The robot’s/ The robot is The cat’s/ The cat is We’re/ We are The boy and girl are The spiders are The teacher is The babies are
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- not -n’t |
cooking lunch eating fishing jumping reading a comic rollerblading shopping sitting sleeping snorkelling standing watching television wearing pants
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in on under next to behind in front of near
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me. the bedroom. the garden. the house. the park. the restaurant. the sea. the shower. the supermarket. the swimming pool. the toilet. the whiteboard.
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I’m
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cooking lunch
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in
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the restaurant.
You’re
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eating
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on
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He’s
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fishing
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under
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She’s
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jumping
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next to
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the toilet.
The robot’s
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reading a comic
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behind
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the bedroom.
The cat’s
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rollerblading
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in front of
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the supermarket.
We’re
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shopping
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in
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the park.
The boy and girl are
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sitting
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on
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the sea.
The spiders are
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sleeping
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under
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the house.
I’m not
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snorkelling
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next to
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the shower.
The teacher isn’t
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standing
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in front of
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the whiteboard.
We aren’t
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watching television
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behind
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the swimming pool.
The babies aren’t
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wearing pants
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near
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the garden.
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