Units 4 Talk about past situations

-TO BE PAST TENSE

-THERE WAS / THERE WERE
-PAST TENSE
-REGULAR VERBS
-IRREGULAR VERBS

Elaborado por Zulay Guaita

 Past situations
Unit 4
Vocabulary

Exercises
Listening. (Track 9) (Taken from Sky High Teacher’s pg 86 track 55)

A.-Listen to the conversation. What did Allison and Steve order?

Steve: Waiter, waiter. Can we order now?

Waiter: Just a minute.
Steve: The service is so slow here.

Allison: Relax, Steve.

Steve: Waiter…Finally!
Waiter: Would you like to order?
Allison: Yes, thank you. I’d like the fish. Oh, and a salad.
Waiter: I’m sorry. We’re out of fish.
Allison: Oh, no. OK, teriyaki chicken. Steve?
Steve: Hmmm. Roast beef with…er…potatoes and…uh…chocolate cake.
Waiter: Roast beef and potatoes. What would you like to drink?
Allison: I’d like some white wine, please.
Steve: And mineral water for me.

B.-Practice the conversation with a partner.

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C.-Complete the spaces with the words in the box. You can use each word only once.

wine plates terrible service expensive lunch

Amy: How was your _______________ at the Beverly, Steve?

Steve: Oh. It was _________________.
Amy: Why?
Steve: Well, the _______________ was slow and the waiters were very unhelpful.
Amy: Really? Was the food good?
Steve: No, it wasn’t. And Alison’s teriyaki chicken was cold. And the white ________
was horrible.
Amy: Oh, no. What a shame.
Steve: And the ________________ were dirty.

Amy: And was the meal cheap?

Steve: No, it wasn’t. It was ________________. The check was $85!

D.-Listen and check your answers. (Track 10) (Taken from Sky High Teacher’s pg 87 track 56)

E.-Listen and notice the pronunciation of was or were. (Track 11) (Taken from Sky High teacher’s pg 87 track 57)
1.-The meal was terrible.
2.-The plates were dirty.
3.-Was the food good?
4.-Were the waiters nice?

F.-Write four sentences using “was” or “were” and the conversation vocabulary.
1.-________________________________________________________________

2.-________________________________________________________________

3.-________________________________________________________________

4.-________________________________________________________________
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Grammar.

(Taken from Woodward English)

Exercises
.-Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the past simple of be.

1.-A: _______________ the movie good? B: No, It __________________

2.-A: _______________ the exam difficult? B: Yes, it _______________

3.-A: _______________ the students early for class? B: No, they ______________
4.-A: ______________ that book cheap? B: Yes, it __________ only Bs. 25.000!

5.-A: ______________ those girls in class? B: Yes, they ________________

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Grammar.

(Taken from: bloginglessanlorenzo.wordpress.com)

Exercises
A.-Complete with “There was” o “There were”.

1 ____________ a birthday cake. 6 _______________ many children there.

2 ____________ a lot of people in Maracaibo. 7 _______________ some chocolate biscuits.

3 ____________ twenty students in your class? 8 ______________ an officer in the office.

4 ____________ just the ID card in her wallet. 9 _______________ a teacher in class.

5 ____________ a music festival in your town? 10 _______________ any men at the airport?

(Taken from: bloginglessanlorenzo.wordpress.com)

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Grammar.
The Simple Past Tense, often just called the Past Tense, is easy to use in English.
The Past Tense is used to talk about something that started and finished at a definite time in the past.
The main rule is that for every verb in English, there is only one form of it in the past tense.
(The exception is the Past tense of To Be, which has two forms: was and were)

-Affirmative sentences
Subject – Verb (past tense) – Complement
They lived in Canada

- Negative sentences.

We use didn't (did not) to make a negative sentence in the past

tense. This is for regular and irregular verbs in English. (Exception is
To Be and Modal Verbs such as Can)

Subject – didn’t - Verb (present tense) – Complement

They didn’t live in Canada

-Interrogative sentences (Questions).

We use did to make a question in the past tense. This is

for regular and irregular verbs in English.
Auxiliary - Subject – Verb (present tense) – Complement?
Did they live in Canada?

We can also use a question word (Who, What, Where, etc.) before DID to ask for more information.

Question word - Auxiliary - Subject – Verb (present tense) – Complement?

Where did they live?

Regular Verbs

.-To change a regular verb into its past tense form, we normally add _ed to the end of the verb.

 move – moved
  ask – asked
 stay – stayed

Irregular Verbs

 leave - left
  go - went
 come – came

Note: Regular and Irregular verbs are ONLY use in affirmative sentences.
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Listening

A.-Listen to the conversation. (Track 12) (Taken from World English Intro B track2-25 pg137)

Ed: Fatima, you’re not Canadian. Do you mind if I ask where you are from?
Fatima: Well, I was born in Syria, but later my parents moved to France.

Ed: How long did you stay in France?

Fatima: Twelve years. But then I left France when I was 18 to study in the United States.

Ed: And when did you come to Canada?

Fatima: I came here five years ago.

Speaking Time.

B.-Practice the conversation. Switch roles and practice again.

C.-Change the underlined words and write a new conversation.

A.-__________________________________________________________________________

B.-__________________________________________________________________________

A.-__________________________________________________________________________
B.-__________________________________________________________________________

A.-__________________________________________________________________________

B.-__________________________________________________________________________

D.-Imagine you were born in a foreign country and answer these questions.

.-Where were you born? ________________________________________________________

.-How long did you stay in? ______________________________________________________

.-When did you come to Venezuela? _______________________________________________

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Exercises
Simple past regular verbs
Add -ed to the regular verb.
Simple Past - regular verbs: rain - rained, work - worked, close – closed

A.-Put the verbs in Past Tense and write affirmative sentences with some of these verbs.

Infinitive Simple Past Infinitive Simple Past

arrive start

work walk

laugh clean

open want

1.-____________________________________________________________________
2.-____________________________________________________________________
3.-____________________________________________________________________
4.-____________________________________________________________________
5.-____________________________________________________________________

B. - Change the sentences to interrogative form.

1.-____________________________________________________________________
2.-____________________________________________________________________
3.-____________________________________________________________________
4.-____________________________________________________________________
5.-____________________________________________________________________
6.-____________________________________________________________________
C. - Change the sentences to negative form.
1.-____________________________________________________________________
2.-____________________________________________________________________
3.-____________________________________________________________________
4.-____________________________________________________________________
5.-____________________________________________________________________
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Grammar.
Pronunciation of “__ed” in past tense of regular verbs.

(Taken from: https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/regular-past-tense-pronunciation-handout)

A.-Check the correct pronunciation of the regular verbs.

(Taken from: https://teacherjesus.files.wordpress.com)

B.-Practice the __ed pronunciation looking at these videos:

https://teacherjesus.files.wordpress.com / My English brain.com: https://youtu.be/-sGWj_q0fpQ

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