This A2-B1 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 responding to personal lead-in statements, matching questions with answers and grammatical rules, writing full positive and negative sentences from prompts, completing summer activity checklists, filling in verb forms in questions, engaging in rapid-fire idea completion tasks, conducting a structured summer check-in across various life areas, revealing and discussing personal photos or memories, and working through extensive extra practice exercises featuring verb conversions, option choices, error corrections, and sentence creation.