Unit 6. Destinations.

Vocabulary
-Visit places of interest -Rent a car -Buy souvenirs
-Take a bus tour -Take photos
-Check in to the hotel -Pack/unpack suitcases.
Exercise 1.
Which of these activities do you do before and during your
vacation?
Visit places of interest- take a bus tour- check in to the hotel-
Rent a car- take photos- pack/unpack suitcases- buy souvenirs.
Before During

Grammar
Simple past tense (Pasado simple)
We use the simple past tense to talk about completed actions or
conditions: se utiliza el pasado simple para hablar de acciones
quese completaron o realizaron en el pasado.
Some verbs are regular in the simple past tense. They have an ed
ending. Los verbos regulares terminan en ed.
Regular verbs.
Base form Simple past
Learn= learned
Arrive= arrived
Play= played
Ask= asked
Travel= traveled
Want= wanted
Need= needed
Help= helped

Some verbs are irregular in the simple past tense. They have
many different forms.
Base form Simple past
Eat= ate
Buy= bought
Fly= flew
Go= went
Tell= told
Leave= left
Say= said
See= saw
Take= took
Have= had
Do= did
Simple past tense
In affirmative statements you need to write the verb in past.
He rented a car on his trip to Europe last November. (+)

In negative form we use didn`t+ verb in the base form.

He didn`t rent a car on his trip to Europe last November. (-)

In questions we use Did+subject+verb in the base form.

Did he rent a car on his trip to Europe last november?

Exercise 2
Change to the negative form and question.
1-I had a reservation yesterday. (+)
___________________________(-)
___________________________?

2-They went to Asia last year. (+)

_________________________. (-)
_________________________?

3-We ate sushi last Saturday. (+)

_________________________.(-)
_________________________?
Exercise 3
Unscramble the questions and answer.
1-To Europe- Did-you-go-year-last?
_________________________________________
To-we-No-went-America__________________________
2-Did-buy-you-those-where-souvenirs?
___________________________________________
Them-bought-in-We- Boston________________________

Exercise 4
Answer about you
1-What did you do yesterday?____________________________
2-Where did you go for your vacation last year?
______________________________
3-What did you eat last weekend?__________________________

Exercise 5
Fill in the blanks using the simple past tense of the verb
Go____________ Eat_______________ Be________________
Decide_________ Buy_______________ Begin______________
Choose_________ Rent_______________ Drink______________
Stay___________ Take_______________ Drive______________
Find____________ Get________________ Give_______________
Grow___________ Have______________ Lose_______________
Make________________ Meet_______________Pay____________
Read________________ Say________________Send___________
Sleep_______________ Speak_____________ Swim____________
Tell_________________ Write_____________ win______________
Wear_______________ Think____________ Study____________
Clean______________ Enjoy____________ Like_____________
Listen______________ Move_____________ Play_____________
Start_______________ Talk______________ Visit_____________
Walk______________ Want_____________ Work____________
See_______________ Watch___________ Return___________

Adjectives Emphatic adjectives

Good/nice excellent, outstanding, magnificent, amazing.
Bad awful, terrible, horrible
Interesting fascinating
Tiring exhausting
Dirty filthy
Clean spotless
Big enormous, huge.
Exercise 6.
Use emphatic adjectives to complete the text
We have an_______________vacation. We visitedsix Europeans
countries in six days. My favorite country was Italy. Rome is
a________________ city. There is so much to see: Museums,
churches, ruins. We stayed in a _______________hotel. Everything
about it was perfect. It had an_________________swimming pool
and very friendly people.

Grammar
Simple past tense of the verb to be (verbo ser o estar en pasado)
I You
He was (+) We were (+)
She wasn`t (-) They weren`t (-)
It
Example:
I was exhausted. (+) yo estaba exhausto.
I wasn`t exhausted (-) yo no estaba exhausto
Were you exhausted?
Exercise 7
Change to the negative form and question
1- The food was great. +
____________________-
_____________________?
2-They were tired. +
________________-
_________________?

3-She was in the hospital yesterday.+

_____________________________________-
_____________________________________?
Exercise 8.
Complete the sentences with was or were.
1-We didn`t enjoy our vacation. The weather___________very bad.
2-How_____________the food?
3-_____________you tired when you got home?
4-I____________really interested in the ruins.They were amazing
5-____________the hotel clean?