Lesson 4: Unit 64 - Past Simple. Reading/Listening/Speaking.
The lesson consolidates the Past Simple through an exciting story about two sisters, a text about J. K. Rowling and a practical dialogue about the weekend.
About this lesson
In this lesson you will consolidate the use of the Past Simple through practical reading, listening and speaking exercises. You will read a story about two sisters and answer questions in the past tense. You will get to know the story of J. K. Rowling and learn important verbs and phrases for describing past events. You develop your communication skills through a dialogue about the weekend and expand your vocabulary with new words from the text.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Talk about past events using the Past Simple.
- Understand short stories and texts in English in the past tense.
- Use the irregular verbs from the lesson correctly (saw, knew, began, got, took, bought).
- Hold a simple dialogue about the weekend with questions and answers in the past tense.
- Distinguish between the use of the Past Simple and the Present Perfect.
- Use phrases such as 'get on/off the bus', 'put on', 'it was time for her to go'.
Lesson vocabulary
- visited One day Mrs Wilson visited her sister.
- saw Mrs Wilson saw tears in her eyes.
- tears When her sister answered the door Mrs Wilson saw tears in her eyes.
- bury I have no place to bury him.
- began She began to cry again.
- put on She put on her hat, coat and gloves.
- shopping bag Mrs Smith put the dead Sammy into a shopping bag.
- got on When the bus arrived she got on the bus.
- got off When the bus arrived at her bus stop she got off the bus.
- remembered Suddenly she remembered she left the shopping bag on the bus.
- publisher JK tried to find a publisher.
- unemployed She was unemployed and poor.
- offered She offered her first book to twelve publishers in England.
- give up I have decided to give up medicine.
- pass examinations She took her first year examinations and passed them.
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