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The Curious Case of Teaching Backwards
The Curious Case of Teaching Backwards
Teaching Backwards
by Sandra Plazibat
Inclassforteachers,
(2nd,Feb,2010) Benjamin
Button collision course
(Video), YouTube
https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=6Zp7dq6b
2PI
Can you, please, copy the verbs you
see!
remembered
happened
hadn’t stopped
been wrapped
had
moved would had got
have driven
Task
• write a story based on the photos you saw and using the verbs I gave
you and include “IF”
• students do the task, in pairs or in groups and rehearse what they want
to say or write.
• the emphasis is more on meaningful communication, fluency than on
accuracy.
PLEASE, FILL IN WHAT IS MISSING IN THE TEXT USING THE VERBS YOU COPIED:
(you have 5’’)
happened
And if one thing 1.had_______________ differently,
if the shoelace 2._________broken,
hadn’t
or the truck 3.had_____________moments
moved earlier,
or that package 4.___had________________
been wrapped and ready,
had
or the man 5.___________set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier,
stopped
or the taxi driver 6.__hadn’t_________________ for the cup of coffee,
or that woman 7.had ______________
remembered her coat and 8._ had ___________
got into an earlier
cab,
would
Daisy and her friend 9.____________have crossed the street. And the taxi
10. would _____________
have driven by…..
3. 1.