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Takeaway What Did You Watch Last Night?

What Did You Watch Last Night? English > Level A1.2 Starter
English > Level A1.2 Starter

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CONTENT
• Let’s Start! • Let’s Explore! • Let’s Practice! • Extension Activity • Target Words • Learning Points

Let’s Start!

Let's watch a movie or TV show!

Learning Outcome Can Do Statements

Describe past experiences in • I can talk about movies.

communicative situations. • I can talk about past experiences.
• I can ask and respond to who, what, when,
Ask your partner: where, why, and how questions.

• What TV shows do you like to watch?

• What movies do you like to watch?
• Where do you watch TV shows or
movies?

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Takeaway What Did You Watch Last Night?
What Did You Watch Last Night? English > Level A1.2 Starter
English > Level A1.2 Starter

Let’s Explore!

Vanessa and Sally had a lot of fun* last night! Let's find out what they each did!

* To "have a lot of fun" is to have a very good time.

Instructions: Read the text aloud.

Vanessa: Hello?
Sally: Hello, Vanessa? It's Sally.
Vanessa: Hi, Sally! How are things?
Sally: I'm good. What did you do last night?
Vanessa: Well, Peter and I went out.
Sally: Where did you go?
Vanessa: We went to the movies. We saw a scary movie. He's a big fan of gore, too!
Sally: No way! Fun!
Vanessa: Oh, for sure. You know how much I love watching zombie movies. We had
the popcorn special.
Sally: When did you get home?
Vanessa: Around 11. What did you do?
Sally: I didn't go out. John and I stayed home and watched back to back episodes
of TV shows.
Vanessa: Binge-watching! Wow! How was that?
Sally: We saw 8 episodes one after another. It was so exciting!
Vanessa: Sounds like you had a lot of fun!

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English > Level A1.2 Starter
English > Level A1.2 Starter > At the Movies

Let’s Practice!

What did Sally and Vanessa do last night?

Instructions: Select the correct answer.

1. Sally ...

 watched a zombie movie.

 had the popcorn special.
 binge-watched eight episodes of a TV show.

2. Vanessa ...

 went to the movies with John.

 watched a zombie movie.
 binge-watched eight episodes of a TV show.

Let’s Practice!

Time to practice speaking!

Instructions: Practice reading the sentences aloud.

1. Peter and I went to the movies.

2. We saw a scary movie.

3. He’s a big fan of gore too!

4. You know how much I love watching zombie movies.

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Takeaway What Did You Watch Last Night?
What Did You Watch Last Night? English > Level A1.2 Starter
English > Level A1.2 Starter

Extension Activity

What did you do last night?

Instructions: Complete the following steps. Fill in the Self-Assessment.

a) Interview your partner about what they did last Self-

Yes No
night. Assessment
b) Ask your partner Wh- questions like: What did you
I ask about events
do last evening? Where did you go?
in the past.
c) Use the Simple Past tense.
d) Talk about watching movies and TV. I conduct an
e) Take turns practicing each other's roles. interview about my
partner.
I talk about
watching movies
and TV.

Target Words

• How are things? (expression): a casual • for sure (expression): of course!

greeting to show interest
e.g. Tom: Hi Sara! Sara: Hi Tom! How are
things?
• last night (adverb): yesterday evening
e.g. I watched TV last night.
• evening (noun): time of the day before
night
e.g. Did you enjoy your evening?
e.g. Tom: Did you have a good night,
Sara? Sara: Oh, for sure!
• zombie (noun): a dead person who
appears to be alive
e.g. I don't like zombies.
• No way! (expression): Really? You don't
say!
e.g. No way! Did you enjoy the movie?

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What Did You Watch Last Night? English > Level A1.2 Starter
English > Level A1.2 Starter

Learning Points

The Simple Past Tense

Some verbs are regular and some verbs are irregular in the Simple Past tense in the
affirmative form. They have the same structure in the negative and interrogative forms and
Wh/Hw questions.

Regular Verbs form the Past tense by adding -d, -ed or -ied.
Irregular Verbs have different endings.

Some Irregular Past tense verbs are:

to see -- saw
to do -- did
to go -- went

Look at the chart and compare.

Form Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs

Affirmative I watched TV. I went to the movies.

Negative We didn't watch TV. I didn't go to the movies.

Interrogative What did you watch? Where did you go?

Did you watch TV? Did you go to the party?

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