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'What am I doing? ... I'm opening the door...' - '''Present Continuous''';  
 
'What am I doing? ... I'm opening the door...' - '''Present Continuous''';  
'How many countries have you been to / shoes have you got / cars have you driven ...? -'''Present Perfect''';
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'How many countries have you been to / shoes have you got / cars have you driven ...? - '''Present Perfect''';
'Yesterday, Mary (or some other invented, non-existent person) got up at 7. She had breakfast ...' -''Past simple'''';
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'Yesterday, Mary (or some other invented, non-existent person) got up at 7. She had breakfast ...' - '''Past simple''';
'If you won £1,000,000, what would you do?...' -'''2nd conditional'''....  
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'If you won £1,000,000, what would you do?...' - '''2nd conditional'''....  
  
 
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Revision as of 17:24, 3 February 2017

TEACHING AND PRACTISING GRAMMAR:

'What am I doing? ... I'm opening the door...' - Present Continuous; 'How many countries have you been to / shoes have you got / cars have you driven ...? - Present Perfect; 'Yesterday, Mary (or some other invented, non-existent person) got up at 7. She had breakfast ...' - Past simple; 'If you won £1,000,000, what would you do?...' - 2nd conditional....

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IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS (boring, distant and/or promoting a capitalist / consumerist world view)!!!!

Below are some of the many 'global justice' contexts you can use with articles and Ready Lessons from this wiki:

Passives:

Used to + infinitive:

Comparatives: practise comparing literacy and life expectancy in North Korea and Myanmar:

Present perfect active and passive: compare active achievements of women from the past to now with passive examples of what's been done to them:

Present Continuous: what are various countries around the world doing to combat climate change?:

Past Simple (regular/irregular verbs - pre-int level): summarise these short stories about women wearing veils:

Present perfect: what have all the groups in these stories done to help refugees?:

or in Ready Lesson form:

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Review of conditionals: discussing health inequality around the world:

or a Ready Lesson hypothesizing about conservation, poaching, fund-raising etc and how much they help:

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Question forms: in this lesson about Pangolins (what are they??):