Not a particularly ground breaking lesson at all, but my high school girls still only answer with "I played computer. I watching TV" when I ask them about their weekends. I want to start every class by asking random students basic small talk questions, so this month I will review how to repond to these questions (weather, time, etc) so they will be prepared and have no excuse in the following months. (My kids now have binders where they save their work and when they draw a blank, or make an error we discuss in the previous weeks, I have the whole class go back and review what we learned.)

Basically, this stresses we DO NOT PLAY COMPUTER. We play games. Or we GO ONLINE, GO ON THE INTERNET, CHAT with friends, etc. Nor do we PLAY BOWLING or PLAY BEACH or PLAY CAMPFIRE. The picture page can be used to teach a variety of vocabulary I think.

haha of course not, please do.

Here is the powerpoint of your lesson.

Thanks for this lesson, I'm going to try it this week with my Level 1's and see how we do!

This was a really good lesson. I pop-quizzed my second grade classes to ask them what they had done on the weekend and got one word answers all around. I found the powerpoint really helpful. I had students writing down sentences to go with the pictures on their whiteboards. I'd pick a student with a correct sentence to write up on the board. At the end, I did a similar group game with giving out a word and asking for a correct past tense sentence. The students got so competitive (like usual) when they realized only a perfect original sentence would get a point. Here's hoping next week they can still answer me in sentences!