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Unit 6. Good times, bad times
Vocabulary adjectives (2);years
Grammar past simple (1);be
Help with listening was and were
Review clothes
Quick review
Write all the clothes you know. Work in pairs and compare lists. Then telRebeccal your partner about your favorite clothes.
E.g. I’ve got a beautiful blue shirt...
Look at the photo and discuss the questions below
1.What’s their relations ?
2.How old are they do you think ?
3.Whose birthday parties are photo A and photo B?
Match the words and then match them with pictures
happy interesting
poor tall
hot unhappy
friendly dirty
noisy ill
short cold
boring empty
well rich
clean stupid
intelligent quiet
crowded unfriendly
Use the adjectives above to talk about photos A and B
E.g. Margret looks friendly. This party looks noisy.
6.1 listen and read
Who is talking ?
Read again and underline these things in the text
place number of people food drink people not at the party
Grammar
positive negative
I was
You/we/they __________
He/ she / it ___________ I ___________ (was not)
You /we /they __________ (were not)
He / she / it __________
6.2 Listen to Rebecca and her grandmother. Was Margret’s thirteenth birthday good? Why or why not?
Listen again and answer the questions below
1.When was Margret’s thirteenth birthday?
2.Where was the party?
3.Was the weather good?
4.What food was there ?
5.Were her friends at her party?
6.How many people were at her party ?
6.3 listen to the strong and weak forms of was and were
In statements and questions was and were are usually __________.
In short answers was and were are _____________.
Look at the word order of questions with was / were. And then write the questions 2 and 3 from 6.2 in the table.
question word was/were subject
When was Margret’s 13th birthday?
were her friends there?
Short answers
Yes, I/ she / he / it __________. No, I / she / he /it _____________.
Yes, you/ we / they _________. No, you / we / they ____________.
6.4 Listen and practice
I was /wəz/ in London.
Short review :
How do we say these years ? 1953 1970 1895 1900 2000 2005
When / where were you born ? 1970 / Rome
Practice
Make questions with you
1./ at work yesterday ? Were you at work yesterday?
2.Where last night ? _____________________________
3./ at home yesterday afternoon? _____________________________
4.Where / on your last birthday? _______________________________
5./ in this class last month ? _______________________________
6.Where / last New Year’s Eve ? _______________________________
People who changed the world
Vocabulary life events
Grammar past simple (2) regular and irregular verbs; positive and Wh- questions
Review was /were ; dates ; years
Quick review
Write six times of the day. Work in pairs and ask your partner where she/ he was at these times yesterday?
E.g. Where were you at six in the evening ?
Practice Fill in the gaps with the words
6.5 Listen and fill the gaps
Practice
Answer the questions below
1.He went to prison.
2.He got married to Winnie.
3.He and his first wife got divorced.
4.He went to university.
5.He left prison.
6.He got married for the first time.
7.He became President of South Africa.
Practice
Find the past simple tense of the words below.
6.6 Regular verbs
start study finish live work want stay marry
6.7 Irregular verbs
become have get meet go forget leave write
Fill the verbs with the past tense
live have go study win become be leave
1.When Nelson Mandela was a child, he lived in a village called Mvezo.
2.He_______ law at Witwatersrand University-- he _______ first black student there.
3.Evelyn and Nelson _________ their first child, Thembi, in 1945.
4.Nelson _______ South Africa in 1962 and _________ to live in Algeria.
5.He _________ President of the ANC in 1991 and he _______ the Nobel Prize in 1993.
Practice
Do the quiz
Grammar
question word auxiliary subject infinitive
Where did Albert Einstein come from?
6.8 Make the questions with these words
1.last night / did / you / What / do ? What did you do last night ?
2.you / did/ your best friend/ Where / meet? _________________________
3.Where / your parents / meet / did ? _________________________
4.to another country/ When /you / first go / did? _________________________
5.What / last weekend / do / you / did ? _________________________
Four weekends
Real World showing interest and continuing a conversation
Vocabulary weekend activities
Help with listening showing interest
Review past simple
Quick review
Write ten verbs and the past tense of them. Which are regular and which are irregular ?
Practice Look at the pictures below
Who do you think had?
A)a great weekend? B)a busy weekend? C)a quiet weekend? D) a terrible weekend?
Practice
Fill the gaps with the words below
Work in pairs and take turns to test your partners.
E.g. the washing --- do the washing
6.9 Listen and match the conversation to the pictures
Conversation one is between ________ and ____________.
Conversation one is between ________ and ____________.
6.10 Listen and match
Fill the table below with a)-h)
I’m happy for you I’m sorry for you I’m surprised I’m not surprised
Practice
Fill the gaps with did, was, are
1.What _______ wrong ? 2. ______ you OK now?
3.What _____ you do ? 4.What ________ you see?
5.What was it like ? 6. Where _____ you go ?
7.Who _______ you go with ? 8. Where _____ you stay?
With which question above can you ask someone who :
A)went to the cinema B) stayed at home all weekend ?
C) was ill ? D)went away for the weekend
Practice
Make notes on what you did at these times.
1 last week
2 last weekend
3 yesterday
4 before you came to this lesson
5 on Friday evening
Take turns to ask and answer questions about the times .
What did you do last week ? Well, I went to a wedding last Friday.
Oh, nice! What was it like ? It was really good.
The good and the bad
Vocabulary adjectives with very, really, quite, too
Review past simple ; present simple
Quick review
Take turns to tell your partner five things you did last week.
Practice
Work in groups. Discuss these questions.
1.Do you or your friends enter competitions?
2.What things do people win in competitions?
3.What is your perfect competition prize?
Read only the first paragraph of the magazine article.
What is the article about?
Work in pairs
Student A read about Jim and Student B read about Sandra.
Then answer the questions below
1.What did she/ he win ?
2.Who did she/ he go with ?
3.Where did they stay?
4.What was the weather like ?
5.What did they do on Saturday?
6.What did Jim/Logan do on Sunday ?
Practice
Match the sentences with A)-C)
It’s too big. It’s very/really big. It’s quite big
Practice
Choose the correct word
1.I can’t wear these shoes. They are quite / too small.
2.I want to buy that bag. It’s very/ too nice.
3.Let’s go to that restaurant. It’s really / too cheap.
4.Mmm, this food is very /too good.
5.Sorry, sir. You’re too/ very late. The plane left at six o’clock.
6.Sam’s got a new job and he’s really / too happy.
7.They’ve got a new flat. It’s quite / too nice.
8.You’re only fifteen. You’re too / quite young to drive.
Write the name of the a place in your town/ city which is :
1.too expensive or quite cheap.
2.really beautiful or really ugly.
3.very dirty or very clean.
4.really boring or really interesting.
5.too noisy or very quite.
6.very friendly or very unfriendly.
Practice
Work in groups and compare places. Do you know any places the other students talk about ? If yes, do you agree?
E.g. I think the new coffee shop is quite cheap. Me, too. Really? I think it is too expensive.
6.12
Listen to the song below and follow the instructions. Fill the gaps with the past tense of the verbs.
Review
1.Write the opposites of these adjectives.
ill well happy ________ rich __________ crowded __________
clean ________ tall __________ friendly _________ stupid ____________
quiet ________ boring ___________
2.Make these sentences true for you with was, wasn’t , were, weren’t .
1) I _________ at home yesterday.
2) My family ______ all together last New Year’s Eve.
3) I ______ with my friends on Saturday evening.
4) Both my parents ______ born in the same country.
5) I ______ born in the place I live in now.
3. Make yes/no questions for the sentences in part 2.
4.Fill the gaps with the past simple of the verbs.
be meet have go be live move live get
I was born in 1940 and my family ______ in London. In 1959, I _______ my wife, Margret, at a party and we _______ married on April 5th 1960. We _____ our first child , Helen, in 1962. Helen ________ to Australia on holiday in 1986 and __________ her husband there. They ______ to Perth in 1990 our granddaughter , Rebecca , _______ born two years later.
5.Make questions for the words/ phrases in bold.
E.g. When was Stan born ? Where did his family live ?
6.Choose the best response in these conversations.
1) A : I was ill last weekend.
B: Oh, nice. / Oh, dear.
2) A: We went away for the weekend.
B: What a shame! / Oh, great!
3) A: I went to the cinema last month.
B: Oh, nice . / Wow!
4) A: I met the President of the USA last month.
B: You’re joking ! / Oh, dear.
5) A: I stayed in all weekend.
B: Oh, right ! / What a shame!
7.Tick the things you can do in English.
1. ( ) I can describe people and places.
2. ( ) I can talk about things that happened in my life.
3. ( ) I can ask questions about things other people did in the past.
4. ( ) I can say and understand years.
5. ( ) I can talk about what I did last weekend.
6. ( ) I can respond to people’s news and ask follow-up questions.
