Today's English lesson focuses on practicing the present progressive tense and summarizing skills. Students will read scenes from Act 4 of Romeo and Juliet, stopping to summarize in their own words. They will also write comprehension questions about the scenes. The lesson aims to improve students' use of the present progressive and develop their summarizing abilities.

1. Tuesday August 2, 2011
Hubbs Center - ELL 7
Agenda and Objectives

2. Today’s objectives...
• We will practice using the present
progressive in a meaningful way.
• We will practice the reading strategy:
summarizing.
• We will read Act 4, Scenes 1, 2, and 3.
• We will write comprehension questions
for Act 4, Scenes 1, 2, and 3.

3. Present Progressive Practice
• Romeo and Juliet
Write down the examples
scavenger hunt! you find in the book.
• Look through Act 4, Scene Page Example of What does
1 for any examples of the # Present this quote
Progressive mean?
present progressive:
– I am_________.
– You are__________.
– She is _______________.
– He is _______________.
– It is ___________________.
– We are_______________.

4. Present Progressive Practice
• Now we will work in groups to practice the
present progressive.
• First, look at pictures with your group and
discuss what each person in the pictures is
doing.
• Next, each person in your group will take a
card with an action described on it.
• Take turns acting out what it says on your
card. Your group members should try to
guess what you are acting out using the
present progressive.

5. True or False:
Good readers summarize as
they read.
True!!!
This part is about...
The important details from this page are...

6. Read: Act 4, Scenes 1, 2 and 3
• We will stop to practice summarizing in
our own words.
Page number Summary of what happened on this page, in my own words.

7. Comprehension Questions
• What makes a good comprehension
question?
• What kinds of things should we ask?
• Let’s write one together: