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Section One
Activity 1
Vocabulary Building
Activity 2
The words in the box are things people write on. Match the words with the questions.
Grammar Focus
To tell something that happened in the past you use simple past tense.
- How do you do that?
- Its quite simple. Change the verb into the past tense form.
Verbs in the past tense often end in ed or -d.
The verbs are called regular verbs.
Activity 3
a. Change these regular verbs from the present tense to the past tense.
Today we Yesterday we
stay
look
start
ask
bake
eats
makes
is
lose
Activity 4
Complete these irregular verbs. Use your dictionary to get help. Then compare your
list with a partners.
Base Form Simple Past Tense
a. do did
b. come ____________
c. see ____________
d. wake ____________
e. feel ____________
f. ____________ drove
g. make ____________
h. ____________ wrote
i. buy ____________
j. ____________ read
k. have ____________
2. Simple past: questions and negatives
We make questions and negatives with did and didnt.
Example:
Activity 5
With a partner, try to ask questions and answer based on the pictures below. Do as
the examples.
Examples:
1. A: Did Tina get up late yesterday?
B: Yes, she did. She got up at seven.
2. A: Did she go to school?
B: No, she didnt. She stayed at home.
3. A: Did she have breakfast at 8:00?
B: No, she didnt. She had breakfast at 7:30.
These pictures show what Tina did on a holiday last weekend.
Activity 6
Tinas aunt, Najwa Shihab, worked late last night.
On her way home, she was robbed. She reported the crime to the police. The police
asked her questions and wrote a report.
a. Complete the police report with the past tense of the verbs. Make sure you spell the
past tense correctly.
b. These statements about the police report are all wrong. Discuss with a pair to
correct them. Number 1 is done for you.
Example:
Guess what
What do zebras have?
Section Two
Activity 1
a. Tinas father had his birthday last night. Tina told her friends about what she did
with the family.
Find out how her father celebrated his birthday.
What did Tina eat at the restaurant?
Activity 2
Tina wrote what she told in her diary.
Your teacher will read the entry for you.
But some words in the entry are missing.
Section Three
Activity 1
Activity 2
Choose one of the group members to tell the class. Let him or her practice
reading it aloud in the group before telling it to the class.
Section Four
Activity 1
Meet five of your friends.
Ask them where they were and what they did last weekend.
Then, fill up the table below.
Number one is done as an example.
Activity 2
Then, tell your friend sitting next to you about what your five classmates did at last
weekend.
Activity 3
With a friend, discuss what you can tell about what you did yesterday or last weekend.
Then, take turn to tell about what you did.
Follow these:
a. Use what Tina did last Sunday as a model.
b. Tell you what you did first, what next, and last.
c. Take turn to practice telling to your friend.
d. Tell to the class.
Activity 4
Get ready to tell to your class.
Remember that you should:
a. begin your story by telling
- when and where it happened
- who the character was/were
b. tell the happenings in order they happened
c. end your story with good ending.
You could:
Section Five
Activity 1
Discuss these questions.
Vocabulary Building
Activity 3
We use adjectives to describe things. Match the words with the meaning.
big having many colours
colourful not small
scenic nearer
beautiful very good to look at
closer having beautiful views
Activity 4
We use groups of words to describe things we saw or experienced.
Examples:
big garden, colourful flowers, closer look, beautiful sceneries.
We call this group of words a noun group or noun phrase. This noun group is made up
of mostly nouns and describing adjectives.
Find three more noun groups from what we have in the classroom. Examples are a
good book, blue pencils, a thick dictionary, etc. Write them in the boxes below.
Guess what
What do apples
grow on?
Grammar Focus
1. Time Conjunctions
Activity 1
In her diary, Tina used special words when
she told about her fathers birthday.
This is because she wanted to tell the reader
what happened first, second, next and so on.
1. Find the following words in Tina's story diary above. Circle them.
then after dinner last night
2. Now write these words in the order they appear in the recount.
____________________________________________________________
2. Action Verbs
Activity 2
Every one of Tina's sentences has a verb in it.
Without a verb each sentence would not be complete.
Tina has used many action verbs in his recount;
for example, went and stayed.
What are action verbs?
These verbs show the actions when you do them, like .
a. Now, with a partner see how many more action verbs you can find in Marys
articleOn Mothers Day in Section Six.
We found action verbs.