Unit all about me Lesson I can speak English Forms: Date

Optional Activity 2a Look and say what you notice

Objective: to introduce the structure verb + ing

STEP1: Draw the pupils’ attention to the words in the Pupil’sbook and ask what they have noticed. Elicit some answers.Divide the board into 2 columns and in the first column writeplaying, flying, draw and read. Invite a pupil to the board and askhim/her to add “-ing” to “draw”. Ask another pupil to standup and help him/her say ‘reading’. In the 2nd column write theword running and underline the letters “u” and “n”. Then writehopping and underline the letters “o” and “p”. After that writestop_ _ _ _ and swim _ _ _ _ .Ask a pupil to come and complete aword as in the example, etc.

At the end sum up in the mother tongue that in cases of“short vowel + consonant”, the consonant doubles. Tell them that the ending “-ing” corresponds to the endings-ish and -ash in Uzbek.

Write the following on the board and translate:

-ish: go — going (bormoq — borish)

do — doing (qilmoq — qilish)

-ash: work — working (ishlamoq — ishlash)

jump — jumping (sakramoq — sakrash)

play — playing (o‘ynamoq — o‘ynash)

In Russian you can explain that it is translated as a noun atthe beginning of clauses but as an infinitive after the verbs. Forexample: