PAST SIMPLE - SPEAKING (LAST VACATION)

PAST SIMPLE - SPEAKING 

when someone asks you about what did you do in your last vacations, will you know how to answer?

and  what happens when do you want to tell someone what was the  things you did at the place you visited?

well, your are in the right place to answer and ask at the correct way, here you'll have extra material to get vocabulary to formulate sentences that will give you the opportunity to show off your incredible vacations!

enjoy it and learn!

Exercise 1
Read the following text about someone's last vacations and formulate questions about the things you are interested the most.

Share them with a partner and

 try to formulate some possible answers

HERE IS DIDACTIC MATERIAL TO SUPPORT YOU IN THE FORMULATION OF QUESTIONS

and do not forget the conjugation of irregular verbs! 

Exercise 2 

1-Choose some of the following topics that you would like to tell a partner in anecdote way using the past simple

2- Ask your partner to do the same

3- Make questions and answer

Topics: 

a) The beach 

b) The cinema 

c)School 

d) Holidays 

Do not forget to look up vocabulary as shown in the image below ↓

WRITING......

 

ENTER THE LINK

https://writeandimprove.com/workbooks#/wi-workbooks

PRESS THE START OPTION, 

THEN "EMPEZAR A ESCRIBIR"

WILL APPEARS 3 OPTIONS CHOOSE THE BEGINNER SECTION 

SELECT:  AN EMAIL: A TRIPWITH YOUR CLASS

READING (Vacation Posts)

Look at the pictures. What do you think each person did on his or her vacation?

TERRACOTTA WARRIORS

1. Rachel

I arrived in China two weeks ago, but my trip is almost over! I’m with a group from the university. We stayed with families in Beijing for a week. We studied Mandarin every day, and I practiced a lot with my host family. Then my group took a trip to Xi’an. We saw the terracotta statues and learned about Chinese history. I’m tired, but I loved every minute of my trip.

SANIBEL ISLAND, FLORIDA

2. Hee-jin

I just spend a week at a yoga retreat in Florida. Every day, I did yoga, went for long walks on the beach, collected seashells, and ate great vegetarian food. I also learned how to play tennis. I feel fantastic! Now I’m going to visit friends in Miami for a few days. Click on my photo album to see more pictures!







3. Chris

Chile is amazing! I just returned from a trip to the Torres del Paine National Park. We took a plane to a boat to a bus to get to the park. I was with four other friends. We camped outside and hiked around the park for 10 days. I saw glaciers and lots of wildlife, including some pink flamingos. Now I’m back in Santiago for a week.

ACTIVITY

                     
Please click on the link bellow and answer the questions according to reading Vacation Posts.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScThTVk573peIhGPPkCxb9D4U5tgQr55V2R3V_cCqkcS2lZPA/viewform

Selled World? (Listening Activity)

If you did not noticed the mistake in the header, you need to do this exercise.

In this exercise you can practice simple past with both regular and irregular verbs listening a song.

As a little reminder:

    Regular verbs usually end in -ed

        e.g.: Work  →  worked
                Laugh →  laughed

     and some of them need to replace one or two letters to conjugate the verb

             e.g.: Love  →  loved
                 Marry → married    (we replaced "y" for "ied")

Before to start, I recommend you investigate simple past tense of these verbs in the box. 
You will need to be familiarized with this vocabulary to realize this listening activity.

If you consider to be enough familiarized with the verbs in the box, you can start with the listening. 


Directions

Listen carefully the song in next video. 
After watching this video, please chose the correct answer in the form with regular and irregular verbs in the verb box that you investigated previously. 

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THE SIMPLE PAST - introduction

→THE SIMPLE PAST

It is a tense that is used to talk about things that happened or existed before now. The simple past tense shows that you are talking about something that has already happened. Unlike the past continuous tense, which is used to talk about past events that happened over a period of time, the simple past tense emphasizes that the action is finished.

→How to formulate the simple past in positive

 We form the Simple Past:

o    with regular verbs: infinitive + -ed

o    with irregular verbs: 2nd column of the table of the irregular verbs

We form the Simple Past:

o    With was and were: I was tired, you were lucky

→How to formulate the simple past in negative

Simple Past Tense – Negative  was not (wasn’t) were not (weren’t)

Subject + was/were + not + …

o   You were not (weren’t)  lucky.

o   She was not (wasn’t ) lucky.

Simple Past Tense  with verb irregular or regular

Subject + did not + V1 + …

o   We did not (didn’t) go to school.

→How to formulate the simple past for questions

Simple Past Tense – Question

Was/Were + Subject + …?                 
Were you lucky?

Did + Subject + V1 + …?

Did we go to school?

When we have to use simple past

If you have doubts, you can watch this video:

Table of the most common irregular verbs

→ download here 

To work regular verbs in past, you can check this video 

Take this short Quiz to check your    

understanding (click here)