UNIT 2

Grammar: Simple Past Tense

Vocabulary: Holidays
■ Reading and listening page 14

■ Have you ever lost something?

■ Have you ever lost something while on holiday?
Simple Past Tense
page 128
something that has already happened:
■ I finished my homework two hours ago.
■ She visited Italy last year.
■ They joined our team yesterday.
■ How to formulate the simple past tense?
■ For regular verbs, add -ed to the root form of the verb (or just -d if the root form
already ends in an e):
■ Play→Played
■ Push→Pushed
■ Love→Loved
■ For irregular verbs, things get more complicated (page 164 )
Negatives and questions

Negatives: did not + [root form of verb]. You can also use the
contraction didn’t instead of did not.
■ I didn’t finish my homework.
■ She didn’t visit Italy last summer.
Questions: did + [subject] + [root form of verb].
Did I finish my homework?
Did she visit Italy?
WAS/WERE

■ I was sick last night.

■ He had an amazing imagination when he was a child.
■ We turned down the music because it was too loud.
■ Were you here?
■ Was she happy?
■ I wasn’t ready for this test.
■ She wasn’t at work yesterday.
■ In one minute, write down five things that you like to do when you are on
holiday.

■ Vocabulary, page 152

■ Tell us about your last holiday. (group/pair work).

 2C
■ Pages 18 and 19
■ Reading and listening

■ Verb phrases:
■ Invite somebody to dinner
■ Have a great time
■ Drive along the street
■ Meet in a coffee bar
■ Give somebody your phone number
■ Take somebody to a restaurant
■ Wait for somebody
■ Be in a hurry
■ Play a song
■ Leave the club very late
2B

Past Continuous Tense

Prepositions
Page 16, reading the article and answering questions
Past Continuous Tense

■ How do we use the Past Continuous tense?

■ The Past Continuous tense expresses action at a particular
moment in the past. The action started before that moment but
has not finished at that moment. For example, yesterday I
watched a film on TV. The film started at 7pm and finished at
9pm.
■ At 8pm yesterday, I was watching TV.
■ While
-While we were talking, they were sleepng.
Past Continuous Tense

■ When we use the Past Continuous tense, our listener usually knows or
understands what time we are talking about. Look at these examples:
■ I was working at 10pm last night.
■ They were not playing football at 9am this morning.
■ What were you doing at 10pm last night?
■ What were you doing when he arrived?
■ She was cooking when I telephoned her.
■ We were having dinner when it started to rain.
■ Ram went home early because it was snowing.
Past Continuous Tense

■ How to form the past continuous

■ We form the past continuous by using the simple past form of the
verb ‘to be’ – was/were – and the main verb in the -ing form.
■ “You were reading a book.”
■ To make questions we invert the auxiliary verb was/were and the
subject:
■ “Were you reading a book?”
■ And to make negative forms we add ‘not’:
■ “You weren’t reading a book.”
Past continuous or past simple?

■ Mrs Evans was making a phone call when we went into her
office.
■ Was it raining when you went out?
■ We were having dinner, when the phone rang.
■ She was sleeping, when somebody knocked at the door.
■ I was studying, when the lights turned off.
Prepositions AT, IN, ON.

■ I live in Serbia, in a building, on fifth floor.

■ I was born in December, in 1999, on Sunday, at 14:00.
■ She is at work and Tom is in his office.
■ We have our first test on 23rd of November.
■ See you in January, on our exam.
■ I always go to the gym in the morning, or in the afternoon, but
never at night.
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