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This document outlines a fun board game designed for ESL/EFL students to practice the present perfect tense using 'just', 'yet', and 'already'. Students work in groups to make sentences based on the time they land on during the game. The activity aims to enhance their understanding of the present perfect while engaging in a collaborative and interactive format.

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Around the Clock

This document outlines a fun board game designed for ESL/EFL students to practice the present perfect tense using 'just', 'yet', and 'already'. Students work in groups to make sentences based on the time they land on during the game. The activity aims to enhance their understanding of the present perfect while engaging in a collaborative and interactive format.

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TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Around the Clock

Activity Type Introduction


Speaking activity, group Here is a fun board game to help students practice the present
work perfect with 'just', 'yet' and 'already'.

Procedure
Language Focus
Divide the students into groups of three or four.
Present perfect with
'just', 'yet', and 'already'
Give each group a copy of the game board, a dice and counters.

Students place their counters on the start square.


Aim
To make present perfect Students then take it in turns to roll the dice and move their
sentences about what counter along the board.
you have normally 'just'
done, what you haven’t When a student lands on a time square, they make three sentences
done 'yet' and what you using the present perfect.
have 'already' done at
The first sentence is about what they have normally 'just' done at
certain times of day.
that time of day.

The second sentence is about what they haven’t done 'yet' and
Preparation the third is about what they have 'already' done.
Make one copy of the
Example:
game board for each
group of three or four. At 8 a.m., I have just had breakfast. I haven’t gone to school yet.
Enlarge the game board I have already had a shower.
to A3 if possible. You
will also need to prepare If a student makes a grammar mistake or if a sentence doesn’t
some dice and counters. make sense for that time of day, they must go back to their
previous square.

Level The first student to reach the finish wins the game.
Pre-intermediate As an alternative, you could have the students miss a turn instead
of going back to their previous square.

Time
30 minutes

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PRESENT PERFECT - JUST, YET, ALREADY

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Around the Clock

Move
Finish 3:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. ahead
2 spaces

5:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m.

Oh no!
4:00 a.m. Go back to 10:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m.
the start

Super skip!
3:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Move
ahead

Go back
6:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m.
2 spaces

Move
2:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. ahead
1 space

1:00 a.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m.

Oh no!
12:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 6:00 a.m.
Go back!

11:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Start

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