This engaging A2 elementary lesson explores summer experiences, personal memories, and recent activities using the contrast between the past simple and present perfect tenses. Students discuss what they have done over the summer, talk about specific past events, and share details about their holidays.

The lesson teaches the target grammar structures, time expressions, and functional phrases. Students practice these forms by reading a personal blog post detailing a summer break, answering comprehension questions, differentiating tense rules and finding text examples, completing verb form gap-fills, discussing personal summer situations, engaging in a large vocabulary sentence-building grid activity, interpreting an August calendar to ask and answer interview questions, completing colour-coded personalized sentence prompts, telling stories based on visual clues, and working through extensive extra practice tasks involving dialogues, sentence transformations, and question formation.