English as a Second Language - Intermediate Level 2

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Today we are learning
about...
Unit 3:
REVIEW AND VOCABULARY
Objectives

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Review and practice vocabulary about your community and local activities.
• Remember the past and past participle forms of irregular verbs
• Use the Simple Past, Simple Present and Present Perfect correctly.
• Combine tenses to create logical complex sentences.

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 Materials

- Please have some paper and a pencil

with you during this lesson.

- You will be expected to take notes that

will help you.

- Please use your notes to tell me what

you learned at the end of class.

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 Warm-Up
Vocabulary Code Word
The clues will give the definition of our vocabulary words.
Then it will tell you which secret letter to take.
Put the secret letters together to spell the code word.

1. 1st letter of: a group that meets to participate in discussion or a common activity.
2. 2nd letter of: people meeting or gathering at one place.
3. 1st letter of : a person, animal, plant that is part of a society, community.
4. 9th letter of : to have same interests or characteristics
5. 5th letter of : to support or advise someone so they will do or continue something.
6. 5th letter of : to be a part of; to have qualifications to be a member of.
7. 1st letter of: to make better.
8. 6th letter of : try to do better than another, perform better than others.
9. Last letter of: to try to influence the actions of public officials.
What is the code word?

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 Information
Community Social Groups
Can you remember these without looking at your notes?

__________ - people who share the same interest or passion

__________ - people trying to make change
__________ - people in the same profession or do same activities
__________ - people in same geographic area

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 Information
Examples of Community groups
List some Community groups.
What type of community group are they?

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Practice: Vocabulary
Fill in the blanks with the following:
member, share, belong, come together, circle, lobby, have in common, encourage, compete, advocate, improve

1. Our book club has many __________ who ___________ every two weeks in order to discuss our ‘book of the month’, share
our ideas and opinions, and _________ a love of literature in our community.

2. My neighborhood has a craft _______. There are about 15 people who participate regularly, and they often bring friends to
our meetings. At each meeting, one of us will ______ an art project that they have been working on, and then everyone will
spend the rest of the meeting trying to make their own. Everyone has different ideas about what kinds of projects they will
contribute, but what we all _____________ is a love of arts and crafts!

3. Our neighborhood has a Community Improvement Committee. Membership is automatic—if you live in the neighborhood,
then you _______ in our group. Our goal is to ________ the place we live, through environmental projects, family festivals
and events, and even taking political action. Last year we successfully ______ the mayor’s office and got approval to build
a new park on the hill in the northern part of town! We also have plans to ________ against the dumping of garbage near
our river.

4. I _______ to a local softball team and it is a lot of fun. We have _______ of all ages and skill levels, but we work together as
a team and support each other. Although we play for fun, every summer we _______ against the team from the other side
of town. The winners of that game get to eat first at the BBQ we throw after the game. Everyone brings their families and
has a wonderful time.

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 Practice: Describing Groups
Work together in small groups to create a group name for each of the following:
Where and how often might they meet? Would you like to be a member of any of these groups? Why/why not?

1. plant trees, clean beaches and parks, educate about global warming, lobby govt. for
pollution restrictions
2. read books, analyze and discuss characters and plots
3. learn and improve skills, compete in competitions, work as a team
4. get fit, spend time outdoors, support each other to get stronger and healthier
5. learn/teach traditional songs, dance, practice, perform

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 Practice: Review Verb Forms and Irregular Verbs
Base Simple Past Past Participle Base Simple Past Past Participle
become grown
brought heard
built meet
come ride
cost thought
drove sent
ate spoke
get understand

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 Quick Review:
What adverbs and time words are frequently used with each tense? Can you remember
without looking at your notes? Make an example with each!

Simple Past Simple Present Present Perfect

• base + ed • base form • have/has + past participle
worked, helped We work. She has arrived.
• many irregular verbs • add ‘s’ for 3rd person sing. He has eaten.
ran, sat, ate She works. He works. It works.
• shows a past event • tells a routine or a general • shows a completed event
that is finished. truth. that is relevant to present.
• (adverbs…) • •

• (examples…) • •

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Practice
Find and correct the errors in the following sentences.
1. My soccer team practices for 3 hours a week last month.

2. I didn’t get my orange belt in karate yet, but I think I will soon.

3. Sheri haven’t presented her ideas before.

4. We play baseball in the park on Sundays for 3 years now.

5. Andrea was a member of the language exchange since January.

6. What has been the schedule for the new summer classes?

7. So far this year, we went on 5 of the 6 recommended hikes.

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Practice
Rewrite the sentences using the given frequency adverbs and time words.
Use the correct verb tense.
1. always 6. already 11. last week
The show always starts at 7:00 The show has already started. Last week the show started at
pm on Tuesdays. 8:00pm.
2. every winter 7. every year since 2015. 12. 2 years ago
My family went to Mexico on
vacation 2 years ago.
3. often 8. just 13. before breakfast
We have just read the
newspaper.
4. for, often 9. for 14. for, yesterday
I often study for a few hours
every night.
5. never 10. yet 15. never
They never meet us on time.

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 Activity
Verb tenses and sentence structure true or false.

Instructions:.
1. The teacher will select a student to read the questions.
2. Students will vote on the answer being true or false.
3. The teacher will click on the majority decision.
4. There are 5 questions. The teacher can decide who reads the answers.
5. You can play this on your own after class for review.

https://view.genial.ly/64f631617ddbbf00123f10dd

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 Quick Review
Compound sentences + Complex sentences

• 2 or more independent clauses • 1 independent and 1 subordinate

/adverbial clause
• Joined by coordinating • joined by a subordinating
conjunctions: and, but, so, or, not, conjunction: because, since, while,
yet, for when, after, whereas, though, after,
before, once, until, so that
• The order of the clauses cannot be • The order of the clauses can
inverted, except for ‘and’ change.
Example: Example:
I wanted to stay, but I had to leave. I left because I had a headache.
But I had to leave, I wanted to stay. Because I had a headache, I left.

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 Practice
Decide if the verb tense combinations are logical or illogical in the
following sentences. How can you correct the illogical sentences?
1. Before she goes to the gym, she stretched and ate a snack.
2. I was deeply asleep when I hear the loud noise of fireworks.
3. I always play music when I am studying.
4. Since I was a child, I will dance the tango.
5. Our special interest group lobbied all the local politicians since we
learned about the problem of pollution from the factory. We won’t give
up!
6. When the rains arrive, we will be ready for them because we have all
brought umbrellas and waterproof bags and tents.
7. They haven’t checked the time and they missed their bus.

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Practice: Status Report
You are one of the leaders of the Pretty Park volunteer group.
The other leaders would like a status report of this week’s activities.

• Write at least 1 compound sentence and

1 complex sentence about your activities.
• Use different verb tenses in the clauses.
Some things to consider:
What did you do?
What have you done?
What are you doing?
What do you usually do?
What will you do?
Who, when where and why?
• Underline the subject and verb in each clause.
• Some students can read out their reports in class.

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 Activity: The Language Exchange Club
Work in groups. Everyone is a member of an English and Spanish language
exchange club. Your friend is interested and would like to know more about it.
• Write at least 2 compound
and 2 complex sentences
about your group.
• Use different verb tenses in
the clauses.
• Underline the subject and
verb in each clause.
• Think about who, what, why,
where, when and how to
develop your sentences.
• Your group can present to the
rest of the class.

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Discussion
Work in small groups to discuss your different answers to the following questions:
• In your neighborhood, what kinds of things can people do together?
• Is there a sense of community?
• Are there regular events?
• If not, what events would you like to happen in your area?
• Is fitness important where you live?
• What kinds of fitness activities are popular among the people in your community?

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 What words and
phrases did we
learn today?

Review:
Today we learned…

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 What do I need to study for
the Quiz? 4. Writing compound sentences using
1. Remembering and explaining the meaning of different tenses for clauses:
vocabulary words: ___________________________________
__________________________________________ ___________________________________
__________________________________________ ___________________________________
_____________________. ___________________________________
2. Remembering base, past and past participle
___________________________________
forms of verbs: ___________________________________.
__________________________________
__________________________________. 5. Writing complex sentences using
__________________________________ different tenses for clauses:
__________________________________. ___________________________________
3. Using frequency and time words for the
___________________________________
simple past, simple present and present perfect ___________________________________.
tenses: ___________________________________
__________________________________ ___________________________________
__________________________________. ___________________________________.
__________________________________
__________________________________.

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 Great work!
See you next class!

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 Learner Reflection
Use this reflection as a tool to help you rate your knowledge of the
yes / no and information questions.
😀 🙂 🤔
Can I... Yes (very well) Yes (with help) Not yet
Remember and understand the vocabulary on community groups?

Remember base, past and past participle verb forms?

Remember frequency and time words used for different tenses?

Make and write compound sentences using different tenses?

Make and write complex sentences using different tenses?

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