UNIT 5: BEST MEMORIES – MIDTERM TEST

LESSON 22: BEST MEMORIES 1

 UNDERSTANDING

1. GRAMMAR
Revising past simple tense

2. VOCABULARY
Important life milestones

3. STRUCTURES
Used to verb

4. CONVERSATION
Life milestones and activities in the past

5. SUMMARY
What you learned
 GRAMMAR

SIMPLE PAST
To be Non-be verb
• Affirmative S + was/were + O S + V(ed) + …
• Negative S + was/were + not + O S + did + not + V-inf…
• Interrogative Was/were  (not) + S + ….? Did (not) + S + V-inf…?

1. To talk about an action or situation in the past which is finished. We often say
when it happened (e.g. yesterday, last night…)
Eg: I saw a movie yesterday.

2. To talk about a series of completed actions

Eg: I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim

3. We can use past simple with FOR to talk about something that continued for a
period of time, and ended in the past.
Eg: Shauna studied Japanese for five years.
 VOCABULARY
DEFINITION These are milestones:

What does ‘milestone’ mean?

• Milestone (cột mốc): an important event in the development or history of
something or in someone's life.

BRAINSTORM
These are ALSO milestones:
• Students type down their life milestones into chat box.
• Students need to put verbs in past tense.
• Example:
 Went to school
 Passed university entrance exam
 Got the first job…
 VOCABULARY
SUGGESTED ANSWER - VOCABULARY

• Moved to a new house • Met my best friend

• Moved to a new city • Had my first kiss
• Had a baby sister • Got the first job
• Went to school • Celebrated my 16th birthday
• Passed university entrance exam • Joined a social activity group
• Used to have a pet • Wrote my first short story
• Had my first love • Bought (got) a bike
• Met my girlfriend

STRUCTURE

“Used to + verb” means something that happened but doesn't happen any more.
Example:
I used to go to school in Paris. (I went to school in Paris before, but now I don't.)
 CONVERSATION
Talk about your life milestones

When I was 10, I____ In (2013) when I was

I started school ____ When I was 12, I used to
My favorite subject ____ years old ____ I
go to school by____ was studying in
was ____ close
friends ____ university ____ I
traveled to…
When I first met ____
We used to go to
____

When I was 15 years

old, I went to high In ____ I passed my entrance
I was born in ____ in a family
school. My teachers exam to ____ University. I arrived
with ____ I am the eldest.
were ____ at ____ in August that year and
My mother was ____ and my
started my life as a university
father was ____ We lived in
student.
____
 CONVERSATION
Choose a box and answer the question beneath it

What did you Talk about What do you

Did you travel
do yesterday? your life when think your
to another
Describe your you were a teacher did
country?
day child last weekend?

Describe your Talk about a

Choose a Choose a
evening. What very good or
classmate and classmate and
time did you a very bad
ask a question ask a question
go to bed? day.

Did you watch Finish: When was the Talk about a

TV last night? Last year, I last time you friend you had
went on a
What did you didn’t… holiday? Talk a lot of fun
watch? because…” about it. with friends

Talk about a Ask your Talk about Talk about a

your last strange day/
dream you teacher a birthday. What
had question did you do? experience
 REFERENCES

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

My best childhood memories are my holiday trips with my grandma. My grandma

was a nice, funny person and loved travelling; I think it's because of her, I like
travelling. Every year, my grandma, my sister and I used to travel to my uncle's
house. My uncle lived in Danang. My best such holiday was in 2005.

That year I was studying in 7th grade. Me and my sister were very happy when my
grandma came home with the train tickets to Danang. We traveled to our uncle’s
home the next morning. There, we had such a wonderful time, playing with my
cousins, going to the beach and building sand castles.

The other uncle who used to live in another city also came to Danang with his
children. We were a big group of children enjoying our summer vacation in
Danang. One day we were playing on the beach and suddenly it rained very
heavily. We all got wet. But it was fun. It is one of the best memories from my
childhood days.
 FREE TOPICS FOR SPEAKING
NO VIETNAMESE – ENGLISH ONLY
• GRAMMAR: Past simple, used to verb (revision)
• VOCABULARY: important life milestones
• CONVERSATION: life milestones and what happened in the past