Famous films

Starting questions
 What movie do you recommend?
 Did you see a movie that inspired you as a child?
 Create a top 5 movie ranking (choose one genre)
Life events (Page 42)
 Fill in the gaps in the phrases with these verbs.
Speaking,
reading and
listening
(Page 42)
Look at these posters.
What do you know about
these films? What do you
know about the director
James Cameron?
Vocabulary (Page 42)
Read the article about James Cameron’s life.
Check these words Fill in the gaps with these dates and numbers

 a script  1971
 a robot  twelve
 successful  1999
 diving  two
 3D  August 16th
 a billion  1986
 $2 billion
Past simple:
Regular &
irregular verbs
 Past simple
Regular verbs Irregular verbs
 You add an ‘ed’ at the end of the  The verb to be is one of these.
infinitive verb.
 The infinitive verb can change
completely in its past form.
 want  wanted  be  was/were
 hope  hoped  go  went
 arrive  arrived  let  let

…or not change at all.

Pronunciation of -ed
 The –ed that you add at the end of the
verb has a different pronunciation.

 want  wanted
 hope  hoped
 arrive  arrived

 Fortunately, there are rules as to why

this is.
PRONUNCIATION OF -ED
Recordings (Page 43)
Regular verbs Irregular verbs

 Listen & practice the regular Past  Listen & practice the irregular Past
Simple forms from the previous book Simple forms from the previous book
exercise. Pay attention to the –ed exercise.
pronunciation.
They are I R R E G U L A R S !
 How are you going to know what’s the
past form of a verb… ?
 You just have to learn the irregular
verbs by heart

 On page 159 you have a list that can

help you. The best way to study the
irregular verbs is to look for patterns
and memorize them as a group.
Looking for patterns

Buy – bought
Cost – cost
Bring – brought
Become – became Cut – cut
Fight – fought
Come - came Put – put
Catch – caught
Teach - taught
Past simple verbs (Page 43)
Cover the article. Choose the
correct answers.
Let’s see how the structure
works
Create questions (Page 49)
 Make questions with these words.

 Now listen and practice.

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Homework
 Workbook  Pages 26 & 27
 Student’s book  Study irregular verbs; page 167
Homework
 Presentation: Choose a person who changed the world. Mention who this person
was, what this person did, why this person changed the world. Presentation date:
Wednesday June 30th (You can have notes with you, but please do not read all the
time. Be ready for questions at the end of your presentation).

 Who was this person?

 What did this person do?
 Why did this person change the world?