DISCOVERY SCHOOL

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NAME: GRADE: DATE:
TEACHER: Miss Alejandra Marín Jara / English Language Teacher SUBJECT:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: To express past times by reading a text about past activities
Listen to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlQbK-Vu37I and complete the blank spaces
with the words below.
She said: I ________seven and you _________ nine
I ____________ at you like the stars that shine
In the sky, the pretty lights

And our daddies used to joke about the two of us

Growing up and falling in love
And our mamas __________
And rolled their eyes
And said oh my, my, my...

Take me back to the house with the backyard tree

Said you'd beat me up you _________ bigger than me
was x3
You never did, you never _________ wasn’t
Take me back when our world _________ one block wide
I dared you to kiss me and ________ when you tried were x2
Just two kids, you and I
Oh my my my my did x2
smiled x2
Well I __________ sixteen when suddenly
I __________ that little girl you used to see looked x2
But your eyes still shined
ran
Like pretty lights.
And our daddies used to joke about the two of us cried
They never ________________ we'd really fall in love
And our mamas _______________ stayed
And rolled their eyes
And said oh my, my, my
believed
had
A few years had gone and come around
We were sitting at our favourite spot in town walked
And you _____________ at me
came
Got down on one knee
met
Take me back to the time
When we _____________ down the aisle
The whole town _____________ and our mamas _____________
You said I do
And I ____________ too
Took me home where we ______________ so many years before
We'll rock our babies on that very front porch
After all this time
You and I

I'll be 87 you'll be 89
I'll still look at you like the stars that shine
In the sky
Oh my, my, my...
 Read and answer
Last summer, Joel and Sara travelled to England for two Write the past simple of these verbs. Pay attention to
weeks. They travelled in August and stayed in a college the spelling rules:
with other students in Brighton, the South of England. It Travel ______________________.
was really fantastic because they talked to a lot of students
Copy ________________________.
of different nationalities and learned a lot about other
cultures and customs. Of course, they learned a lot of Count ________________________.
English too because they practiced it every day. In the
Play ________________________.
morning they studied a little, they asked the teacher to
speak slowly when necessary and answered her questions. Close ________________________.
In the afternoon they visited different places or played
Open ________________________.
different sports at the college. It was so much fun. They
often walked down to the beach with their new friends and Dance ________________________.
played or chatted. In the evening they were tired so they
Drop ________________________.
sometimes watched videos or played board games.
Cook ________________________.
The best days were Saturday and Sunday because they
Live ________________________.
travelled to London. The city is very big and they visited
all the monuments like Big Ben, The London Eye and Look ________________________.
Buckingham Palace. They wanted to see the Queen but they
True or false? Correct the false ones.
didn’t see her, only her guards!
Joel and Sara travelled to England for three weeks.
___________________________________________.
They liked everything in the city but their favourite thing
They stayed in a college.
was the museums, especially Madam Tussards. There were
___________________________________________.
lots of realistic figures of famous people there.
Brighton is in the North of England.
___________________________________________.
At the end of the two weeks, they were sad to return home.
They asked the teacher to speak fast.
The holidays were fun and different from usual. They cried
___________________________________________.
a little when they waved goodbye to their new friends and
They sometimes walked to the beach.
promised to write or send emails when they arrived home.
___________________________________________.

Answer the following questions.

What did Joel and Sara do in the afternoon?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Did they learn a lot of new things?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
What did they like the best?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
What did they visit in the capital?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Did they like the museums?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
What museum did they like the best?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Did they see the Queen?
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Were they happy at the end of the holidays? Explain.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
What did they promise to do when they arrived home?
________________________________________________________________________________________________