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JOIN OUR FREE CLASS! The past, present and future of the coffee shop. Let’s expand our English conversational skills in the coffee shop today!

Zsolt Zsemba is inviting you to a scheduled English class. Time: Jun 21, 2025 09:00 AM WIB
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💬 Theme: “Coffee and Conversation” – Past, Present, Future

Class Goal: Practice speaking in all three tenses in a natural setting
Scenario: Two friends (Anna and Ben) meet for coffee after a long time

⏰ Warm-Up

Quick questions to spark thinking about time and tense:

  • What did you do yesterday?
  • What are you doing right now?
  • What will you do this weekend?

Students to share for each question.

📄 Guided Dialogue with Fill-in-the-Blanks

Activity: Read and fill in the missing verbs (students read aloud)

Anna: Hey Ben! I haven’t seen you in ages. What ___ (you/do) last year?

Ben: I ___ (work) in Jakarta. It ___ (be) a busy year.

Anna: Oh wow! I ___ (live) in Bali for the past six months.

Ben: Nice! What ___ (you/do) these days?

Anna: I ___ (teach) English and learning how to surf.

Ben: That’s awesome. Any plans for the future?

Anna: Yes! Next month I ___ (travel) to Japan. You?

Ben: I think I ___ (start) a new job in August.

📝 Follow-up: Students correct answers as a group. Then read again with correct tense.

✍️ 0:30–0:45 | Sentence Extension Practice

Instructions: Show 3 base sentences. Students extend them using past, present, and future forms.

  1. I drink coffee…
  2. I go to work…
  3. I meet my friends…

Example (write on board or screen):
– I drink coffee every morning before work. (present)
– I drank coffee at the café yesterday. (past)
– I will drink coffee with my cousin next week. (future)

Call on students one by one to give their own past, present, and future versions.

🎯 Review & Wrap-Up

  • Ask: What tenses did we use today?
  • Quick quiz: Say a sentence and have students shout “Past!”, “Present!”, or “Future!”
  • Homework suggestion: Write 3 short sentences (1 in each tense) about your life

SENTENCE EXTENSION:

I went to the coffee shop yesterday

I went to the coffee shop yesterday and will go again tomorrow

I went to the coffee shop yesterday and will go again tomorrow because I love the coffee

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Zsolt Zsemba

Zsolt Zsemba has worn many different hats. He has been an entrepreneur, and businessman for over 30 years. Living abroad has given him many amazing experiences in life and also sparked his imagination for writing. After moving to Canada from Hungary at the age of 10 and working in a family business for a large part of his life. The switch from manufacturing to writing came surprisingly easily for him. His passion for writing began at age 12, mostly writing poetry and short stories. In 1999, the chance came to write scripts. Zsolt took some time off from his family business to write in Jakarta Indonesia for MD Entertainment. Having written dozens of soap operas and made for TV movies, in 2003 Zsolt returned to the family business once more. In 2018, he had the chance to head back to Asia once again. He took on the challenge to be the COO for MD Pictures and get back into the entertainment business. The entertainment business opened up the desire to write once more and the words began to flow onto the pages again. He decided to rewrite a book he began years ago. Organ House was reborn and is a fiction suspense novel while Scars is a young adult drama focused on life’s challenges. After the first two books, his desire to write not only became more challenging but enjoyable as well. After having several books completed he was convinced to publish them for your enjoyment. Zsolt does not tend to stay in one specific genre but tends to lean towards strong female leads and horror. Though he also has a few human interest books, he tends to write about whatever brews in his brain for a while.