I think it hit home about five minutes before the lesson:
‘Am I really going to base a 30 minute activity around this bottle of murky water? Surely this can’t work…’
Most of the activities I’ve tried from ‘Teaching Grammar Creatively’ have worked quite well. This one though… I must admit, I had my doubts.
It was supposed to be an activity for practising the present perfect (for completion). There’s a poem in the book about a ‘cosmic cocktail’… something like this:
‘I’ve blended everything nicely,
two galaxies,
several stars,
I’ve added a sprinkle of meteor dust…’
Etc.
Sticking with the theme, I made the cocktail (mocktail) as a prop. It consisted of some cheap coffee, some raisins, bits of cut-up rubber… it looked awful.
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