ACCESS TO THE LANGUAGE

Competence: I am able to exchange information about my and other people’s past events.
Criteria: I can extract information from an audio in order to complete a text about yesterday.

What did you do yesterday?

Listen to what six people talk about what they did yesterday and see how they use the past tense.
Ray / United States
What did I do yesterday? Well yesterday (1) ____________Thanksgiving and I (2) ____________ the good fortune of being
invited to the house of a friend where a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner was prepared. So I was able to eat delicious food and
good company and I had some good conversations all and all it was a very, very, very pleasant day. Though, I (3)
____________ eat too much.

Emily / Djibouti
I was at school until 6 o'clock I think, 6pm, yeah. And, I (4) ____________ home, I had my dinner, (5) ____________ my
homework and I was actually chatting with a Chinese friend and she (6) ____________ me a lot of Chinese movies and like
famous people in China, and it was quite interesting.

Nick / Australia
Yesterday I (6) ____________ to work, I (7) ____________ at school. I taught English at school and (8) ____________
sports with my kids. It was lots of fun. We have our sporting festival next week. So there's lots of preparation happening.

Hoa / Vietnam
What did I do yesterday? I had a part-time job yesterday, yeah, actually. And, I (9) ____________ in a co-op in my university
which is like a little cafeteria where they sell a lot of goods like sweets and books and everything else. And, I had work in the
morning and in the evening I went out a little bit with my friends because my friend (10) ____________ a party last night like
a welcome party so I went there and (11) ____________ some new friends and (12) ____________ my time and just a
relaxing day for a weekend.

Jonathan / Canada
What did I do yesterday? Well, it wasn't that different or special a day. I (13) ____________ most of the day so I got up, took
a shower and so on and went to work most of the day. In the evening I went to an international party, I (14) ____________ a
friend of mine and (15) ____________ some new friends, had some good single malt scotch, some good conversation and
went to sleep with a smile on my face.

Demelza / Australia
Yesterday I chilled out at my apartment and then I (17) ____________ some lunch in a nice restaurant in a shopping mall in
town and after that I (18) ____________ to work.

To practice the new vocabulary go to the following link: http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer101/T117-Yesterday.htm

Answer the following questions about the interview.

1) Ray says that he _____ too much. 6) Demelza went to a restaurant _____ work.
a) ate b) talked
a) before
2) Emily watched a ______ movie. b) after
a) Japanese b) Chinese

3) Nick is a _______.
a) teacher b) coach

4) Hoa _______ last night.

a) had to work b) went to a party

5) Jonathan said he met _______.

a) new people b) old friends

http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer101/T117-Yesterday.htm