Topic: Last weekend
Language: Past simple (regular and irregular)
Level: Elementary
Assumptions: Students have already encountered the past simple, but need further practice.
1. Warming up
2. How do you usually spend your weekends? – discuss in pairs – open class discussion
3. Do you prefer going to the cinema or theatre? Why?
4. Verbs connected to cinema and theatre topic are written on the board. Students in pairs classify them as regular and irregular, open class checking
5. My weekends (prompts) Saturday : I went to the cinema with my friend. Sunday: I went to the theater with my students, we watched “Antigone”
6. Students write 5 sentences about their last cinema or theater experience using the verbs from the board
7. Open class checking
8. Debates “cinema vs theatre”, all students- two teams