Lesson overview:
A camera clicks, and a whole street stops in the middle of what it was doing. The worksheet opens with a real color photograph of Mulberry Street, New York, taken in about 1900. Six people in it carry numbers. Number 1 is standing on his balcony, number 2 is carrying a big basket, and two young men are sitting on a cart. Students answer short questions about each number (What was number 4 selling? Was number 5 sitting?) and check themselves in a grey column beside the questions. From their own answers they complete the rule: was or were plus the -ing form. A film-strip diagram shows the same photo as a paused frame, with the action already going on before the click and still going on after it. A form table covers positive, negative, questions and short answers, followed by a short spelling note and two examples of an action interrupted by a past simple event, with when and while. The practice starts with true or false about the photo, then -ing spellings, a day planner, natural and unnatural pairs, and sentences built from notes. Students also complete a police witness statement, correct a message with seven mistakes, and write captions for three more people in the photo.
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