Universidad Tecnológica.

Facultad de Ciencias Sociales.

Escuela de Idiomas.
Subject: English II.
Teacher: Guillermo Alberto Cortez Arévalo.

Topic: Ask about someone´s vacation.

Objectives: The students will be able to ask about someone´s vacation.

A. Conversation. Deduce the topic. Try to explain to yourself the listening activity. Divide the activity
in parts: Identification of the main idea, specific ideas, and supporting ideas. Listen the audio, totally.
Listen the audio in parts for specific comprehension. Listen and follow the listening in the text. Listen
and repeat. Present a comprehension of the listening activity, written or verbally. Begin your
comprehension like this: The dialogue is about…

B. Rhythm and intonation. Listen again and pay attention to the rhythm and intonation in the questions
and sentences.

Grammar.

The simple past tense with regular and irregular verbs.

Examine the new grammar. Try to write a sentence with the grammatical structure on your notebook.
Underline the grammatical or linguistic structure. Try to imitate for you the pronunciation of the
grammatical or linguistic structure. Explain how is structured the grammatical or linguistic structure
and its uses. Ask to the students to listen and repeat the grammatical or linguistic structure. Write
sufficient examples with the grammatical or linguistic structure. Choose students to model the usage of
the grammatical or linguistic structure. Request to the students to practice the grammatical or linguistic
structure.

To state the simple past with regular verbs add ed, d or ied. Some verbs in the past tense.

Present Past Simple Present Past Simple

Accept Accepted Amaze Amazed

Act Acted Amuse Amused
Achieve Achieved Answer Answered
Admire Admired Appear Appeared
Advise Advised Arrange Arranged
Affect Affected Arrive Arrived
Agree Agreed Ask Asked
To state the simple past with irregular verbs add the form given in a special manner. Some verbs in the
past tense.

Present Past Simple Present Past Simple

Be Was / were Begin Began
Break Broke Bring Brought
Build Built Buy Bought
Catch Caught Choose Chose
Come Came Cost Cost
Cut Cut Do Did
Draw Drew Drink Drank

A. Look at the photo story on page 75 again. Circle all verbs in the simple past tense.

B. Grammar practice. Complete Ida´s post with past forms of the verbs.

C. Write questions using the simple past tense. Begin your questions like this: What did Alejandra…?

D. Answer the question by writing a paragraph of five sentences: What did you do last week? Use the
verbs from the list.

Pronunciation. The simple past tense ending. Regular verbs. See the image below for the
pronunciations.

A. Listen and repeat the pronunciation of the simple past tense ending -ed.

B. Listen to the verbs. Circle the –ed ending you hear.

In the simple past tense describe someone´s vacation in a paragraph of five sentences. Begin your
sentences like this: He played tennis every day in August.