My activity using Hot Potatoes

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LESSON PLAN: hot potatoes

Activity designed by:  Marian Aguirre

Level of students: Pre - Intermediate
Step of the lesson: Practice
Activity: Students try to complete the reading comprehension text and the exercise will provide them with certain hints if they have doubts or difficulties.
Grammar point: Past Simple
Resources: Text, netbook and “Hot Potatoes” (web 2.0 tool)

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.

In a way, apart from making students practice their knowledge about past simple and coordinators, the teacher will encourage them to learn about personal information of one of the most famous American writers. Perhaps, later on, she will give them a book to read written by him.