Mrs. Clark smiled. “Past continuous, Leo. ‘I to Mr. Davis.’ Good. What was I doing just before that?”
She skipped the worksheets. Instead, students wrote five sentences about where different people were and what they were doing at 7 p.m. yesterday. Leo wrote: Mrs. Clark was talking to Mr. Davis. I was sitting on the bench. My mom was driving. The USB drive was disappearing. When class ended, Mrs. Clark found the USB drive—inside her Prime Time 3 teacher’s book, page 42. She laughed.
The class laughed softly, but Mrs. Clark nodded. “That’s real English. That’s your story.” Prime Time 3 Teachers.epub
“Perfect. And what , Leo, when you saw me?”
But when she opened her bag, her USB drive with the printable worksheets was gone. ‘I to Mr
She wrote on the board: Yesterday at 7 p.m., someone stole my USB drive. Where was I? What was I doing? Who was nearby? The class stirred. Mystery always worked.
Mrs. Clark had planned the perfect lesson. It was Friday afternoon, and her Prime Time 3 teacher’s e-book (the .epub file on her tablet) had a fantastic extension activity: a detective role-play to practice past continuous and simple past. Instead, students wrote five sentences about where different
Leo, who usually sat in the back drawing monsters, suddenly looked up. “You were in the staff room,” he said quietly. “At 7 p.m. I saw you. You were talking to Mr. Davis.”