Present Continuous collaborative drawing
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Students make and draw Present Progressive sentences to make funny pictures, with optional common verbs, names of animals, names of places, and prepositions
Lesson Plan Content:
Present Continuous collaborative drawing
Choose one of the topics below and take turns telling the next person what to draw on that scene with Present Continuous sentences like “A police officer is climbing a tree and eating a banana”, “It is hailing” and “The sun is shining”. Try to make the most interesting picture that you can.
Possible places to describe and draw actions in together
A beach A desert
A classroom/ A school/ A school playground A disaster (a fire, a tsunami, etc)
A farm A fight/ A battle
A garden A hospital/ An animal hospital
A house A jungle/ A rainforest
A kitchen A living room
A mountain A park
A pet shop A restaurant
A shop/ A store A shopping mall
A space station A stadium
A station A street
A street market/ A flea market A zoo
An airport An apartment building
An office building In space/ On another planet
The countryside The sea
The sky Under the ground
Underwater
Look at someone else’s picture and try to describe what is happening. They will tell you if you say something wrong.
Explain the most interesting parts of your picture to the class so they can vote on the most interesting picture in the class.
Change partners and do the same with another place from above.
Change partners again. Do the same but with questions and answers, with the person who will draw asking the question each time:
Suggested questions about what is happening in the picture
- Who is… ing (…)?
- What is… doing?/ What are… doing?
- What is… holding/ standing on/ running away from/ …ing (…)?
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A/ An Two Three Some The |
alien alligator ambulance anteater astronaut baby bear bee boy/ girl/ kid bug/ insect camel cheetah chef/ cook crab doctor/ nurse dolphin farmer fire engine flamingo giraffe hamster hippo horse human lifeguard leopard monkey monster neighbour orangutan parrot plane (…) player police officer robot shark snake soldier spider teacher tiger truck waiter |
(s) (ies) |
is are |
brushing camping cleaning climbing crashing diving doing drinking driving eating falling feeling flying having hitting holding jumping looking at lying making playing reading resting/ relaxing riding running rushing saving sitting sleeping standing surfing swimming taking talking travelling walking washing watching wearing writing …ing |
(…) (away from…) (away) (between…) (from…) (in…) (next to…) (on…) (to…) (towards…) (under…) |
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