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This resource is a ready-to-teach PowerPoint presentation providing all the information and activities you require to introduce ESL learners to the past continuous tense with a story set at the beach. Suitable for both child and adult learners, this resource can be used online or in the classroom and is suitable for one-to-one or groups of learners.

Created by Teacher Kaylee, a fully-qualified international school teacher, this lesson can be taught as a stand-alone lesson or as part of the Firefly Learner ESL English course (this lesson is unit 3, lesson 4).

This resource is a PowerPoint presentation lesson which introduces students to the past continuous tense through the context of a simple story set at the beach.

LO: To develop an understanding of the past continuous tense with a story about the beach

Success Criteria:
•I can learn some vocabulary related to the beach. .
•I can read a story in English.
•I can answer questions about the events in a story.
•I can distinguish between past simple, past continuous, present simple and present continuous.
•I can explain why we use the past continuous tense.

Beach vocabulary: towel, umbrella, sun cream, rubber ring, deck chair, beach ball, bucket, spade, sand, sand castle, bikini, swimsuit, sunglasses, hat, flip-flops, surfboard, flippers, shorts, goggles, snorkel, starfish, octopus, crab, fish, seaweed

Verbs: was, were, woke, decided, packed, love, going, like, watching, enjoy, reading, play, swim, drove, listened, felt, wait, arrived, sat, thought, help, sent, told, come, showed, picked, put, walked, picked, cleaned, had, built, using, surfed, played, using, thought

Key grammar points covered:

• We use ‘was’ and ‘were’ are the past tense forms of the verb ‘to be’
• We use ‘was’ and ‘were’ in place of ‘is’, ‘am’ and ‘are’ when using the past tense
• We use ‘was’ with singular subjects (including I) and we use ‘were’ with plural subjects (and also ‘you’)
• We can use the forms of the verb ‘to be’ (is, are, am, was and were) in front of adjectives, nouns and continuous verbs (verbs ending in -ing)
• When we use a past tense being verb (was/ were) in front of a continuous tense verb, we are using the past continuous tense
• We use the past continuous tense to describe long, background actions, especially actions interrupted by something else (for which we would use the present simple tense to describe).

Questions:
•Who is the story about?
•Where is the story set?
•When is the story set?
•What happens in the story?

The presentation includes the following:
✔ Learning objective and success criteria
✔ Starter and plenary activities
✔ Assessment of prior knowledge
✔ Teaching input (vocabulary & meanings, sentence construction, grammar points etc.)
✔ Differentiated independent and team consolidation tasks (3 levels)
✔ Speaking, reading, writing and grammar tasks
✔ Application activities and extension activities