at the park, at the mall, at school, at a movie, at a restaurant, on a train, at the dentist’s, at the doctor’s, in the garden,
in the shower, in the bath, in bed
Target Structure
Examples:
Where were you at 6:00 last night? I was at a movie. Where was he at 4:00 pm? He was at the park.
Teaching the Class (before the handouts)
Use the flashcards to elicit and check your students’ understanding of the vocabulary and target structures.
After you’ve gone over the vocabulary and target structures, hand out the worksheets. Write all the new phrases on the board and have your students copy them down on page 1. (They should write the new phrases below each image.) Then elicit the target structure and write the questions and answers on the board. Have students copy down the questions and answers on page 2.
Work in Pairs
Have your students work in pairs to complete the information gap. They’ll have to ask each other about where Ben and Danielle were at different times throughout the day.
Now Work Alone
When they are finished the pair work, have your students try the follow-up activity to review their writing skills for this structure. (Make sure they are not doing the follow-up activity and pair work activity at the same time. These are meant to be done separately.)
Listening
For this task you’ll need to tell the students about where
you were at different times yesterday. Use the places from today’s lesson, or use other places that your students know. To make the task more student-centered, have your students call out the questions. E.g., “Where were you at 4:00 pm?”
Class Survey
Students should walk around the class and ask as many classmates as possible where they were at 4:00 pm, 7:00 pm, and 10:00 pm yesterday. As a follow-up, you could have students write out
full sentences or report some of their findings to the class.
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