Lesson number 17

Tuesday, 13th November 2007

Summary:

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  Past Continuous.
  

Past Simple

Irregular verbs:

To beat-->beat-->derrotar

To win-->won-->ganhar/vencer

To lose-->lost-->perder

To draw-->drew-->empatar

PAST CONTINUOUS

e.g. I was having a bath.

-->Use: to talj about a situation that was in progress the past.

-->Form: To Be in the past simple + _ing form of the main verb

-->was ( I, she, he, it) e.g. To have/having

-->were (you, we,they

E.g.

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  Paulo was paying attention to her teacher. -->Affirmative




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  Some students weren't listening to the teacher. -->Negative




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  Was Liliana copying the lesson correctly? -->Interrogative

ATTENCION:

--> When and while often appear with this verb tense.

e.g. When I was having a bath--> past continuous; the light went off.-->past simple

While we were taking the breakfast, my father called us.

Lesson number 16

Wednesday, 7th November 2007

Summary:

• "The power of football"-reading and comprehension.

Lesson number 15

Tuesday, 6th November 2007

Summary:

• Worksheet on simple past.
• Unit 3-talking about football.

Lesson number 14

Wednesday, 31st October 2007

Summary:

• Object pronouns (revision).
• Talking about Halloween stories.

Lesson number 13

Tuesday, 30th October 2007

Summary:

• Grammar test.

Lesson number 12

Wednesday, 24th October 2007

Summary:

• Homework correction.
• Past simple tense.

Lesson number 11

Tuesday, 23rd October 2007

Summary:

• Simple past tense.
• Homework correction.
  
  
  Simple Past

--> USE -->to talk about past and finished situations.
E.g. I drank a coffee ten minutes ago (I don’t have it anymore)

--> Forms:

Affirmative

--> Regular verbs that end -ed.

E.g. I finished the homework yesterday.

-->Irregular verbs (see the list)

E.g. Drink--> She drank a lemonade last break.

Negative
--> Didn’t + infinitive of the main verb

E.g. They didn’t do the homework.

Interrogative
--> Did/Didn’t + subject + infinitive of the main verb

E.g. Did Marta study French?

Time expressions often used with this tense

--> Last (…)
--> (…) ago
--> Yesterday
--> 22nd September 2007
--> 1997

Exercise:

1.I got up at 10 o’clock.
2.I met my friend at 11 o’clock
3.We played cards at Jack’s coffee until 10 o’clock.
4.We saw a film at the Rex at 3 o’clock.
5.We were there till 5 o’clock.
6.Then we went to Birmingham.