Please find everything necessary for this lesson attached.

- Lesson Plan
- Worksheet (integral to lesson plan)
- Flashcards
- Bank, Burn & Steal PPT game

Any feedback is most welcome.

'I ran' or 'I have run' are both fine by me - cheers vitD, looks interesting!

This is how I would have benefited from an English language degree lol.

So: I have ran is grammatically incorrect then?

You learn something new every day ey. That doesn't make any sense but then this is English and how much of it really does make sense if you stick by set rules etc. You wouldn't say I have swim 5 miles or I have jog for an hour.

Got to love English ha.

This lesson is really, really well-thought out. Love the game, too! Definitely doing this for one or two days in my advanced middle school A.S. class. Thanks a bunch, VitaminD. Come back to Korea soon ;).

Yeah, it's ridiculous. "Sea of Japan" is clearly in parenthesis to indicate it as a former name yet they get all worked up about it. Now I just tell them that I think it's called the Sea of Japan because it's near the Japanese island of Dokdo. That or just "How could it be the East Sea? It's on the west side of Japan." 

Great lesson by the way, though some people might find the use of a leprechaun to explain drinking too much to be a little harsh on the Irish.

Ran this lesson through with my third grade middle school students today. They are very adverse to doing worksheets and my co-teacher has actively discouraged me from doing worksheets.

I've reorganized the PPT so that you can do it without the worksheet. It's mostly done through eliciting. Thanks for the lesson Dan, it's awesome!

Some of the slides are borrowed from one of _Omiak_'s lessons.

Not wishing to be overly critical, but I think the way you explain the present perfect here makes it easy for students to confuse it with the past simple.

For example, how are they to understand the difference between I sat down and I have sat down, The pirate stole my gold and The pirate has stolen my gold, I lived in Korea for two years and I have lived in Korea for two years?

That could be a lesson in and of itself.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't see why you would put these these three tenses together. Students shouldn't find the different between the future simple (future certainties and perceived certainties) and present continuous (present happenings), so they don't really need comparing. Then you include the present perfect, which is a really complex two-time tense that most languages don't have an equivalent to (talking about actions which started in the past and continue now, significant past events, finished actions in the past with a present relevance, finished actions in an unfinished time frame, etc.), but you explain it in a way which could easily be confused with the past simple (finished actions and happenings).