Thursday, May 14, 2009

Reviewing the simple past

A great activity for reviewing the simple past is to read a short biography of someone interesting. This site, with bios of Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe and this other site where you can read about Noam Chompsky, Alexander Humbolt and Paul Harvey, seem good. This is a good site for long biographies. You can make up your own comprehension questions for the biography you choose to read and then ask them questions about their past or assign them to write an autobiography. Here are links to hundreds of questions to choose from: here, here and here if you or they want to write a book on the subject.

This lesson gets your student speaking in the simple past and makes for interesting conversation.

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