TEAM PAIR SOLO

TEAM PAIR SOLO

The steps:

·         Students do problems first as a team, then with a partner, and finally on their own.

·         It is designed to motivate students to tackle and succeed at problems which initially are beyond their ability.

·         It is based on a simple notion of mediated learning. Students can do more things with help (mediation) than they can do alone.

·         By allowing them to work on problems they could not do alone, first as a team and then with a partner, they progress to a point they can do alone that which at first they could do only with help.

The materials:

Grammar Skill

Past continuous tense

We form the past continuous tense with:

• I, he, she, it + was + verb-ing
• We, you, they + were + verb-ing

We use the past continuous tense to express:

• An action that was happening at a tme in the past.

Example:

I was waiting for my friend at that time

They were making a trip all day yesterday

• An action that was going on for sometime when anoyher action .. shorter .. happened.

Example:

She was buying a dress in a shop when I met her

While moher making a cake, my father came home

Nb: when can be put before the simple past tense or past continuous tense, and while is only put before the past continuous tense.

• Two actions happening at the same time.

Example:

Rudi and I were watching television while my sister was studying her lesson

Adverbs of time:

When, as, while, all day yesterday, the whole day yesterday, at 5 o’clock yesterday