Introduction
This web quest is about the differences between the present simple and the past continuous. The different uses they have are not very difficult to understand for a Spanish speaker of English as a second language, but it is quite important to know when you have to use one and when the other.
So this web quest has a theoretical part in which there is an explanation of the differences uses of each one (present simple and past continuous) and a practical one, in which there are some exercises to practise the different uses.
Task
The task that you have to do is quite simple: first of all you have to read the theory about the different uses and then you have to do the activities that correspond with it.
Process
First of all you have to go to the links of the different pages in which you can find the theory related to these themes in order to know when you have to use the present simple and when the past one. Once you have learnt the theory you have to do the different activities that are proposed in the page (but not all of them. There is an indication next to each link of which activities you have to do). These activities must be done on your own, but once you have done them you can contrast the answer with a classmate. These activities will be corrected in class.
Then you have to do two small pieces of writing: one describing what you do everyday and the other one describing what you did last Sunday.
Resources
Grammar:
- http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/sim_pres.htm
- http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/sim_past.htm
Exercises:
- http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/tiemposverbales/unit02.htm (exercise A and exercise C)
- http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omexercise/tiemposverbales/unit11.htm (exercise A and exercise B)
Evaluation
Exercises: students must have correct half of each exercise in order to get a “pass”.
Writings: students must have correct a minimum of sixty per cent of the verbal forms in order to obtain a “pass” in the writings.
Conclusion
Thanks to this, students will have learnt how to use these two different tenses and they will know how to express the distinction between the things that occur everyday and the things that form part of the past, the things that have already happened at one specific point in time.
