Grammar: Past Simple/ Past Continuous
11 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár
1. Warm-up: Recycling vocabulary: grant, (to) go to university, tuition fees, (to) pass an examination, (to) be doing a degree, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, BA = Bachelor of Arts, MA =Master of Arts, PhD, doing research into/ on, lesson <-> lecture, seminar, teacher <-> professor, lecturer
2. Pair work activity: Vocabulary: B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, 22.
3. Pair work activities: Grammar, Handouts: answers on the whiteboard (by Sts) and on PowerPoint slides.
Pair work activity: Spelling: Sts formed the rules.
Verbs ending in ‘e’
close - closed, die - _______, phone _______, bake _______, smile _______, tiptoe _______
2. Verbs ending in a vowel before the -y:
play --> played, destroy --> _____________, enjoy --> _____________, pray--> __________________
3. Verbs ending in ending in a consonant before the -y:
marry - married, carry____________, study __________, reply __________, try __________
4. Verbs consisting of one syllable, ending in: vowel + consonant
stop - stopped, grab ______________, ban ________________, plan ________________
4. verbs of two syllables, stress on the last syllable, ending in vowel + consonant
commit - committed, admit ______________________, prefer _____________________
5. Verbs ending in ‘l’ (BrE)
travel - travelled, equal _____________________, cancel ______________________
Usage
Pair work activity: Sts had to form the rules based on bunches of example sentences.
1. Habitual events in the past: always, often, sometimes, frequently
He often drank tea at breakfast.
She always ate fish.
They watched television frequently.
I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.
I often brought my lunch to school.
Most evenings, we stayed at home and watched DVDs.
2. A definite point in time: last week, yesterday, six weeks ago, last night, last year
We saw a good film last week.
I arrived in Geneva yesterday.
She finished her work two weeks ago.
I went to the theatre last night.
Last year, I didn't travel to Korea.
She washed her car.
He didn't wash his car.
3. Telling a story, past actions
The four travelers passed a sleepless night, each thinking
of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called
True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of
a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal.
I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim.
Past Continuous Tense
Usage:
Pair work activity: Pair work activity: Sts had to form the rules based on bunches of example sentences.
1. Interrupted action in the past
I was having a beautiful dream when the alarm clock rang.
Hilda was dancing, but when she saw me, she stopped.
The phone rang, while I was having my bath, as usual.
I was talking to the Prime Minister the other day, when a reporter interrupted us.
Last night at 6 PM, I was eating dinner.
At midnight, we were still driving through the desert.
Yesterday at this time, I was sitting at my desk at work.
2. Parallel actions
I was studying while he was making dinner.
While Ellen was reading, Tim was watching television.
Were you listening while he was talking?
I wasn't paying attention while I was writing the letter, so I made several mistakes.
What were you doing while you were waiting?
Thomas wasn't working, and I wasn't working either.
They were eating dinner, discussing their plans, and having a good time.
3. Atmosphere
The sun was shining and the birds were singing as the elephant came out of the jungle. The other animals were relaxing in the shade of the trees, but the elephant moved very quickly. She was looking for her baby, and she didn't notice the hunter who was watching her through his binoculars. When the shot rang out, she was running towards the river..."
When I walked into the office, several people were busily typing, some were talking on the phones, the boss was yelling directions, and customers were waiting to be helped. One customer was yelling at a secretary and waving his hands. Others were complaining to each other about the bad service.
4. Annoying actions: with always, forever, constantly, all the time
Jack and Jill were always arguing!
She was always coming to class late.
He was constantly talking. He annoyed everyone.
I didn't like them because they were always complaining.
Pair work activity: Practice.
4. Homework: Unit 5, Unit 6 from Raymond Murphy's Grammar in Use.