📞 Horizon: The Life Update
The studio becomes a Reunion Booth: two chairs, a lemon timer, ninety seconds to catch up after a year apart. Learners discover that a human update changes gear three times — have been + -ing for activities, have + past participle for countable results, past simple for the dated moment — and train openers, follow-up questions and the three classic traps (state verbs, counting vs continuing, for vs since) before role-playing reunions and writing a real update message to a relative.
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Lesson Plan
- Your last real reunion
- The first questions you ask
- One true I’ve been… sentence
- Result vs activity recap
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Present perfect continuous (have been + -ing) presents an ongoing activity: I’ve been training with the swim team since March
- Present perfect simple (have + past participle) counts results, often with already / just / yet / so far: I’ve already won two matches
- Past simple takes over once a finished time is named: The medal race was in June — I won my heat
- State verbs (know, be, own, love) stay in the perfect simple: I’ve known Marco since we were seven, never I’ve been knowing
- for + period vs since + starting point: for six weeks / since last September
