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Grammar Goals Using Past Tense PDF
Grammar Goals Using Past Tense PDF
Monet
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2 Read and listen. Choose the best title.
A museum visit My favorite painting Our school trip
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a you / clean your room? 3
Did you clean your room ? ,I .
b your mom / work?
Did ? , she .
c your dad / wash the car?
, he .
d you / study math?
Track 36
Warm up
Last Tuesday, we didn’t stay at school.
• Brainstorm on the board the different places students We visited an art gallery. We looked at the
have visited: art gallery, museum, aquarium… paintings. I liked them. The guide talked about
Students say what there was and wasn’t in each the paintings and the artists.
place, which was their favorite place to visit, and why. We learned a lot. The artists didn’t mix the
colors. They used dots of color. After that,
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1 Listen, say, and point. we painted pictures with dots. We copied a
famous painting, but I didn’t like my picture. It
• Students look at the pictures. Elicit the topic was terrible!
(paintings, art) and any vocabulary students
already know in English.
• Play Track 34. Pause after each word. Students 3 Read and complete.
repeat the word and point to the corresponding • Read out the first sentence. Elicit any time
picture. phrases used with the past that students might
• Elicit what students would find in an art gallery. know: yesterday, last Tuesday… Read out the
Elicit the difference between drawing (with a pencil first statement. Draw students’ attention to
or crayons) and painting (with brushes and paint). visit → visited and the -ed ending. Elicit the
simple past of look (looked) and talk (talked).
Repeat with the other verb types.
Track 34
• Draw students’ attention to the pronunciation of
an art gallery, an artist, a guide, a painting,
verbs that end in t (and d): /vIzItId/, /peIntId/
a dot, draw, mix
• Refer students back to exercise 2. Elicit when
• Play Track 35, pausing after each word. Students the trip to the gallery happened (last Tuesday).
listen and point to the corresponding picture. Students find one example of the simple past
affirmative in the text.
• Read out the second statement. Draw students’
Track 35 attention to didn’t and the fact that the infinitive
a guide, a dot, mix, an art gallery, a painting, form of the verb is used. Elicit the simple past
draw, an artist negative of mix (didn’t mix) and like (didn’t like).
• Draw students’ attention to the fact that the
36 simple past form is the same for all persons.
2 Read and listen. Choose the best • Invite volunteers to read the sentences,
title. affirmative and negative, to the class.
This exercise promotes thinking skills as students
have to work out the main idea of the story in order
to choose the appropriate title.
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Answers
Lesson 2
a lived e learned h didn’t like
Grammar practice Student’s Book, pages 48–49 b studied f used i didn’t live
c didn’t travel g didn’t mix j died
Warm up d started
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Track 38
4 What did you do last weekend? Write true A: Did you visit the aquarium on Saturday?
sentences.
B: Yes, we did.
• Read the version of the first sentence which is A: Did you listen to a guide?
true for you. Choose one of the prompts and B: Yes, we did. But it was an audio guide.
make another sentence which is true for you. A: Ah! Did you watch the sharks at feeding
• Students complete the exercise, choosing the time?
form that is true for them. B: No, we didn’t. We watched the dolphins.
• Divide the class into pairs. Students compare A: Awesome! Did you like the aquarium?
their answers with their partner’s. Invite volunteers
B: Yes, I did. It was fantastic!
to report to the class what their partner did:
Tomas didn’t visit an art gallery. He stayed home.
Grammar box
Extension Make a false statement about Monet.
The class says true or false, and volunteers correct: • Read out the explanation. Compare it with questions
Monet was an American painter. False. He wasn’t and short answers in the simple present, using do/
an American painter. He was a French painter. Invite does. Read out each question and the two short
a volunteer to make a statement about Monet. The
class says true or false. Continue in pairs.
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