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This document provides teaching materials for an ESL activity where students play a card game asking and answering questions in the past continuous tense about what they were doing at certain times the previous day. Students must provide convincing explanations for their activities using phrases like 'because', 'in order to', and 'so that'. The goal is for students to practice forming and answering past continuous questions.

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Convince Me

This document provides teaching materials for an ESL activity where students play a card game asking and answering questions in the past continuous tense about what they were doing at certain times the previous day. Students must provide convincing explanations for their activities using phrases like 'because', 'in order to', and 'so that'. The goal is for students to practice forming and answering past continuous questions.

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TEACHER'S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Convince Me

Activity Type Introduction


Speaking activity In this fun teaching activity, students play a card game where they
ask and answer past continuous questions about what they were
doing at certain times yesterday. This activity also helps students
Language Focus to practice asking for and giving explanations with 'because', 'in
Past continuous order to' and 'so that'.

Asking for explanations Procedure


with 'Why were you...?'
Divide the class into groups of three or four.
Giving explanations with
'because', 'in order to' Give each group a set of picture cards and a set of time cards.
and 'so that'.
Go through the picture cards and elicit the various activities.

Ask the students to shuffle the picture cards and then deal them
Aim out equally. The time cards should be shuffled and placed face
To ask and answer past down in a pile on the desk.
continuous questions
The first student picks up the top time card from the pile and
about what you were
asks the player on their right what they were doing at that time
doing at certain times
yesterday, e.g. 'What were you doing at 6:00 a.m. yesterday?'
yesterday, using cards as
prompts. The player must then choose one of their picture cards, show
the card to the other students and give a convincing answer that
matches with the time on the card, e.g. 'I was drinking coffee'.
Preparation
If the answer is appropriate for that time of day, the player can
Make one copy of the
discard their picture card.
picture cards and time
cards for each group of If the answer is doubtful, e.g. 'I was studying English', the other
three or four and cut as students challenge the player and ask them to provide a convincing
indicated. Keep the two explanation as to why they were doing that activity at that time
sets separate. of day.

If the player can provide a reasonable explanation, the picture


Level card can be discarded, e.g. 'I was studying English, because...'
Intermediate If not, the player must keep the picture card.

The next student then picks up a time card and asks the player on
Time their right what they were doing at that time yesterday and so on.
25 minutes
The first player to get rid of all their picture cards wins the game.

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PAST CONTINUOUS

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Convince Me

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PAST CONTINUOUS

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Convince Me

6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:15 a.m. 10:45 a.m.

11:30 a.m. 12:45 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:00 p.m.

3:15 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:15 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m. 8:15 p.m. 9:00 pm. 9:45 p.m.

10:30 p.m. 11:45 p.m. 12:15 a.m. 1:45 a.m.

2:30 a.m. 3:45 a.m. 4:30 a.m. 5:15 a.m.

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