Unit 5: Growing Up

Objectives
• Talk about growing up and your family background using
the simple past
• Talk about school subjects people studied using
• Most of
• A few of
• Etc.
Ask your classmates around you:

Where were you born?

I was born in Everett, Washington, USA

When were you born?

I was born in 1987.

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Simple Past Rules
• Usa el SIMPLE PAST con acciones terminadas.

• Con verbos regulares, solo añade ´-ed´ al fin del verbo.

• Walk - walked talk - talked visit – visited

• El SIMPLE PAST es el mismo por todo sujeto (I, you, he/she/it,

we, they)
• I walked. You walked. He walked. She walked. It walked. We
walked. They walked.

• El verbo auxiliar ´Do´ cambia a ser ´Did´

• Do you play soccer? - Did you play soccer?
• I don´t play soccer. – I didn´t play soccer.
Simple Past: Practice
1. walked
We ______________(walk) to the store yesterday.
watched
2. Tom and Sally _____________(watch) a movie last
night.
liked
3. Rachel _____________(like) the cake I
_________(bake)
baked last week.
learned
4. I _____________ (learn) the present countinuous tense
last month.
5. carried
You ____________ (carry) the suitcases to the car in
the morning, remember?
didn´t help
6. She _______________ (don´t help) my cousin with her
homework last night.
didn´t play (don´t play) soccer yesterday.
7. They ______________
PAST TENSE NEGATIVE
I walk to school everyday. I walked to school
yesterday.
I don´t walk to school
everyday. I didn´t walk to school
yesterday.
He doesn´t walk to school
He didn´t walk to
everyday. school yesterday.

Use ¨ didn´t ¨ to make

the past tense of a
negative sentence.
PAST TENSE NEGATIVE
Do you walk to school Did you walk to school
yesterday?
everyday?
Did he walk to school
Does he walk to school yesterday?
everyday?
- Yes, he did.
- No he didn´t.

Use ¨ did ¨ to make a

question in the past
tense
 Past Tense Practice
Did
1. _______
cook
you ________ (cook) dinner last
night?
did
Yes, I __________.
Didn´t
2. They _________ watch
_________ (watch) the
new movie. (negative)
3. Sam _____________
played (play) the piano for his
family yesterday.
4. _______
Did play
Sam _______ (play) the violin too?
No, he ____________.
Didn´t He __________
played
the guitar.
Didn´t
5. We _________ like
__________ (like) the movie.
It was terrible.
 Past Simple REVIEW
Write three things you did during your childhood.
Example:

1. I went to Disneyland when I was 5 years old.

2. I was a cheerleader in high school.
3. I played softball until I was 16 years old.
Determiners
Determiner Meanings
To talk about people in general use a
determiner + noun
To talk about specific people or things use
a determiner + of + a determiner.
Use a determiner + of + an object
pronoun.
Determine Examples
Assignment
• Create a dialogue about school and childhood
experiences.
• 2-3 minutes in length.
• Memorized
Make a dialogue:
• In pairs or groups of three, make a dialogue talking about
school and childhood.
• Be sure to use the following elements:

Determiners: a lot of, some, nobody, everybody, all of ___, most of

____, some of__,
Past simple tense
Subjects: algebra, economics, band, orchestra, etc.
Expressions like: was interested in, good at/ bad at, was into, I took
____, I liked, I didn´t like,
Questions and Answers
Be prepared to present your dialogue
(MEMORIZED) by next week.