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Chapter 1 Now and Then

Overview
Focus 1: When were you born?
➢ Grammar 1: (be) was, were
Focus 2: Names and Introduction
➢ Grammar 2: Past Tense
Focus 3: Now and Then
➢ Grammar 3: Present Tense vs past Tense

Focus 1. When were you born?

1 Read and practice the conversation below

A. At the Movie Theatre (between a movie staff and a customer )

Andre : We need to make sure that you are above eighteen
years old if you want to watch this movie. May I see
your ID card?
Doni : Sure. Here it is.
Andre : May I know what year you were born in?
Doni : I was born in the year two thousand.
Andre : Alright. Here is your ID card and the tickets. Thank
you.

B. At the Mall (between two friends)

Cassia : You see the one who wear pink jacket? She is my
older sister.
Tania : Really? I thought your sister is a college student.
Cassia : Hahaha. No, she’s still a high school student.
Tania : When was she born?
Cassia : She was born in two thousand and three.
Tania : Oh, I see.

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2 Read the Fairy tale below and fill in the blank with the verb (be)
in the Past Tense.

The Princess and the Peas

Once upon a time there ________ (be) a young

prince. The prince wanted a wife. He wanted to
marry a princess. So, the prince traveled around
the world on his horse. The prince met a lot of
beautiful girls. ” I’m a princess,” the girls said. But
the prince did not believe them. Some girls
_______ (be) too short. Others ______ (be) too
tall to be princesses. Finally, the prince went back
to his palace. He ______ (be) very sad. The king
and the queen _________ (be) very sad too. The
next evening there _________ (be) a terrible. Pict:
storm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess
_and_the_Pea

The sky ________ (be) black and it rained and rained.

There _______ (be) a knock at the palace door. A servant opened it. And he saw a
beautiful girl outside in the rain. The girl’s clothes _______ (be) wet. Her hair
_______ (be) wet. She _______ (be) very cold. ”I’m a princess,” the girl said. ” Please
can I come in?” The servant took the girl to the queen. ”I’m a princess “, the girl said
again. But the queen did not believe her. The queen and the servant went out of the
room. ”The girl is staying with us tonight”, the queen said “Make a bed for her. Put
twenty mattresses on the bed”. The queen ________(go) into the kitchen. She picked
up a pea. She thought that real princesses can’t sleep when there is a pea under
twenty mattresses. The next morning the queen went into the princess’s bedroom.
“How did you sleep? “the queen asked. “I slept badly. There _______ (be) something
in the bed. I don’t know what it _______ (be). Perhaps it________ (be) a stone.”, the
princess said. The girl _______ (be) a princess! The queen now believed her. The
queen _______ (be) sure that princesses can’t sleep when there is a pea under
twenty mattresses. So the prince married the princess. But first, he took the pea to
the royal museum. And it’s in the museum today!

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Grammar 1
Simple Past tense (BE)
Function: To talk about facts or to express a condition in the past
Forms:
Subject (+) Positive (-) Negative (?) Questions Conditions
a. I, he, Subject + was + Subject + was not was+ Subject + Noun: students,
she, it condition + condition condition? doctor, teacher,

b. You, Subject + were Subject + were Were + Subject + married, single,

etc.
we, + condition not + condition condition?
Adjective: thin,
they
small, hungry,
sad, happy,
E.g., E.g., E.g., empty, etc
➢ I was ➢ I was not ➢ Was I not Preposition of
happy happy happy Place: in the
yesterday. yesterday. yesterday? class, at home, on
➢ b. They ➢ They were not ➢ Were they in the table, etc

were in the in the the classroom

class an classroom an an hour ago?
hour ago. hour ago

Past Time References

Yesterday
Last ………… (night/ month/year/weekend)
----------- ago
In (year) → in 1995

3 Fill in the blanks with the correct past form of the verb (BE)
1. He _______ my professor when I ______ in the college.
2. How old _________ your twin brothers when they got chickenpox?
3. We ________ classmates in education department a few years ago.
4. I _______ sick last night.
5. _________ you allergic to dairy products when you ______ a kid?

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6. _______ Dr John at the ER when the accident happened?

7. The students ________ cooperative during the group activities.
8. He ________ still confuse when the teacher asked him to do the
exercise in front of the class.
9. My grandma _______ a headmaster when she ______ young.
10. Where ________ you last weekend?

Focus 2. Tell me your story

1 Read and practice the conversation below.

A. At the Class (between two students)

Sean : What did you do yesterday?
Britney : Nothing much. I just stayed at home and cleaned the house.
Sean : How boring!
Britney : Yeah, it was. And you? What did you do?
Sean : I drove to the mountains and went hiking.
Britney : That sounds fun!
Sean : It was. I had a great time.

B. At the Teacher’s Room (between two teachers )

George : Did you do anything this weekend?

Rachel : I did. I took the train to the city and met my friend.
George : Oh, yeah! What did you do?
Rachel : We had lunch and did some shopping.
George : Did you buy anything?
Rachel : No, I didn’t. I just went window shopping. I’m trying to save
money.
George : Me too!

Grammar 1

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Grammar 2
Simple Past tense (Action)
Function: To talk about activities that happened in the past
(+) Positive (-) Negative (?) Questions
Subject + V2 Subject + did + not+ V1 Did + S + V1?

E.g., E.g., E.g.,

➢ They studied ➢ They did not study ➢ Did they study
mathematics mathematics mathematics
together together yesterday together yesterday?
yesterday ➢ I did not drink ➢ Did I drink banana
➢ I drank banana banana milk last night milk last night?
milk last night

Regular and Irregular Verbs

Regular verbs: V1+ d/ed
Irregular verbs unchanged form: put, cut, bet, hit
Irregular verbs change form: write → wrote
Sing → sang, eat → ate, wear → wore

2 Complete the table of irregular verbs below

Regular: usually add -d or -ed to a verb Irregular verb
V1 V2 V1 V2
increase make
decide began
worked have
managed choose
visited go
talk saw
introduce fall
moved speak
arrange thought
studied stand
showed left
want do

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3 Change the verbs to past simple and fill in the missing words.

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4 Put the words below in the correct order

1. Lenny / didn’t /yesterday / the homework / forget
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2. four days ago / my brother / in the shop /saw /I.
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3. to Los Angeles / two days ago / flew / for holiday / My uncle.
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4. ? / Did / go jogging / Emily and Donna / this morning / Where
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5. left / the door / you / you / last night / lock / home / Did / before
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6. In my class / the ceremony / last Monday / all the students / attended.
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7. last Saturday / she / go / by train / didn’t / to Paris
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8. yesterday / in the office / had / Dustin / lunch.
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9. to the museum / didn’t / three days ago / my parents/walk
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10. wasn’t / at the weekend / the weather / nice.
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5 Writing Activity

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Put the Picture into the correct order to tell a story

Now write the story in the simple past. Add any words or information that you
think necessary.

Last Friday, my friend Phillip got up at eight o’clock.

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Source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/553168766702157447/

Focus 3. Now and Then

1 Read and practice the conversation below.

A. At the Cafe (between two friends)

Jeanie : I saw you in Maple street last week. What did you do?
Cathy : I waited for my sister.
Jeanie : then?
Cathy : we went to the bookstore to buy a novel, then we went to a
restaurant to eat.
Jeanie : where is your sister now?
Cathy : she always goes to the market every Sunday, so she is still in
the market now.
Jeanie : what does she do there?
Cathy : she helps her uncle to sell clothes.
Jeanie : clothes?
Cathy : yes, it is. My uncle has a shop in Pine street, you can buy

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some clothes there.

Jeanie : next time I will try!
Cathy : anyway, today you look so beautiful in your dress.
Jeanie : thanks, Sita. I bought it yesterday.
Cathy : where did you buy it?
Jeanie : in the shop beside my new home. Periwinkle Dress shop is
the name of its shop.
Cathy : really?? Are you sure??
Jeanie : of course. What’s wrong?
Cathy : nothing. Is it on Oak Street?
Jeanie : you are right!
Cathy : that’s my uncle’s shop! My uncle has three shops, in the
market, in Pine street and Oak street. His shop’s name is
Periwinkle Dress.
Jeanie : Waw! I often buy there. So, your uncle is Mr. Jack?
Cathy : correct!
Jeanie : Nice to hear that. Anyway, I must leave you now. My mom
asks me to go home earlier today.
Cathy : it’s okay. See you
Jeanie : see you

2 Present Simple and Past Simple

➢ We use the Present Simple to talk about conditions or activities that

happened in the present time.

e.g.: She listens to music every morning (listening to music is her habit or
routine in the morning.)
They don’t go to school at weekends (schedule or routine of the school)

➢ We use Past Simple Past to talk about completed activities or actions that
happened in the past.

e.g.: I worked in Tokyo in 2000. 9I now work in another place)

I studied design when I was in college. (I don’t study design now)

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3 Complete the sentences below with the present simple or past

Simple from the words in the brackets.

Source: https://www.photocopiables.com/online-
exercises/past-simple-vs-present-simple-online-exercise

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4 Vocabulary Holiday

HOLIDAY WORD-SEARCH— Find the words on the right in the word-search on the left
— lookup ↑, down ↓, forwards → , backward ← and diagonal ↗↘

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Use the words above to write sentences about holidays

Examples: I love to go shopping when I am on holiday.
My brother likes snorkelling, but I prefer diving.

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8. ________________________________________________________

5 Read the text. Then complete the fact file

Time Berners-Lee looks ordinary –he is about 45 years old and has brown
hair. His life is quite normal –he was born in England and went to school in
London, but his home is now in Massachusetts USA. However, in 1989 Tim
had a very important idea. He invented the World Wide Web (WWW)!
Both Tim’s parents worked with computers so it isn’t surprising that he
loved computers from an early age. When he was eighteen, he left school and
went to Oxford University where he
studied physics. At Oxford, he became more
and more interested in computers. And he made
his first computer from an old television. He
graduated in 1976 and got a job with a computer
company in Dorset, England. In 1989, he went
to work in Switzerland, when he first had the idea
of an international information network
linked by computer and he decided to call it
the World Wide web. In 1994, he went to live in
the United States, where he now works. In 1995, he wrote an article in the
New York Times where he said “The web is a universe of information. It is for

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everyone. His idea of a web, where people from all over the world can
exchange information, is now real.

Tim Berners-Lee fact File

His important idea
Place of Birth
Place(s) of Study
Place(s) of work
Personal details
Now lives in
Source: Cunningham, Moor, & Eales (2002) New Cutting-Edge Elementary Student’s Book (Retrieved
from https://toaz.info/doc-viewer)

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