La Reconstrucción Económica, Política, Agraria, Laboral y Educativa

Use of Time Expressions
Time expressions are often the key to understanding and planning written work. Students can improve their written and spoken accuracy by having a good grasp of therelationship between time expressions and tenses. This lesson includes an identification and matching exercise and is followed by a longer sentence construction exercise to give students practice in correctsentence structure.
Aim: Increased awareness and/or review of relationship between time expressions and tenses
Activity: Identification and matching exercise, followed by sentence completionLevel: Intermediate to Upper Intermediate
Outline:
* Write a number of time expressions on the board and ask students to identify which tenses can be used with the various time expressions.
* Shortlyreview the more difficult time expressions with the class.
* Distribute worksheet.
* Have students work together in small groups to complete the first exercise.
* Correct the exercise inclass, making sure to review problem areas.
* Have students complete the written work by themselves.
* Ask students to exchange the exercise and check each other's work - this helps studentsfurther inductively improve their skills by seeing how other students have used the time expressions.
* Finish with a follow up discussion of any problematic areas.
* Have students write anautobiography or biography of a famous person employing the time expressions employed in the lesson.
Time Expressions

Matching and Identifying Time Expressions

Draw a line to the time expressionwith the sentence fragment. Complete by drawing a line to the correct tense identification.
Sentence Fragment | Time Expression | Tense Used |
John will have completed the fourth grade...We arestudying Roman history...They haven't finished their homework...Jack gets up early......I will give you a ring.I began skiing......she was reading a book.He had been waiting...I used to play tennis...