Teens|Grammar activating|Pre-Int|6. A bad hair day

Warm-up

Additional information

Put the expressions into the right column

Answer the questions

1. Which of the events can make you really unhappy?
2. Which of the events can make you really happy?

Harry’s having a bad day

Harry got up late, he had a cold shower, he missed his bus.

He was late for school, he had a test in French and he failed it.

Complete the text with the words from the box

Verbs in the past

Complete the sentences with the verbs in Past Simple

Talking about the past

Complete the negative sentences and questions

How was your day?

Read and remember the rule

We use the Past Simple of be to talk about situations that took place in the past.

• He was a footballer.
• His parents were very angry.
• The exam wasn’t difficult.
• «Were you at school yesterday?» «No, I wasn’t!»
• Where was James last week?
• There was a lot of traffic in the street.

I was tired yesterday

Complete the sentences

⇒ Today it’s a fine day, but it was cold yesterday.

Make true sentences about yourself and interview each other

⇒ I was at home yesterday. Were you at home?

• be tired / yesterday
• be late / last Monday
• be happy / on my Birthday
• be in the cinema / at the weekend
• be at home / yesterday evening
• be in bed / at 11 p.m. yesterday

Harry’s bad hair day

Listen and complete the text

Harry’s evening

Continue the story about Harry’s day

Did you have a good weekend?

Complete the dialogue with Past Simple

Example: Did you have a good weekend?

Bad days, good days

Make questions and interview each other

Example: When did it happen? Were you alone?

Your questions:

Speak about a bad or a good day

Example: It was in May last year. My friend and I decided to go shopping. First it was OK, but then…

• when it happened
• where you were
• who was with you
• what happened
• how you felt
• what you did later

Questions, questions…

Complete the questions and ask each other

Make your questions in Past Simple

What happened?

Look at the pictures and write the answers

Sam and Tony	Iris and Suzy	Brian and Robert

Example: Who phoned his friend? Sam

Read and remember the rule

Who, what, which, how much and how many can be the subject questions.

When the question word is the subject, we use the affirmative form and word order.

— Who invited you? — Tom invited me.
— What happened at the party? — Nothing happened.
— Which phone cost more? — The black one.
— How many people came to the party? — About twenty.

An interview

Make questions and ask each other

What I can do

Now you can:

1. talk about good and bad events in the past;
2. use Past Simple with regular and irregular verbs;
3. interview somebody, using different types of questions.

Wordlist

Irregular verbs: bingo

Turn over the card and name the second form of the verb

Grammar reference

Was, were

We use Past Simple for actions, events and situations that happened at a definite time in the past.

We often use past time expressions with Past Simple.

yesterday, yesterday morning, yesterday afternoon, last night, last week, in September, two days ago, in 1988

Past Simple of be has two forms: was and were.

⇒ I was here. 

You were right.

⇒ It wasn’t difficult.
They weren’t late.

⇒ Were you OK? Yes, I was.
Was he in the garden? No, he wasn’t.

Past Simple: regular verbs

We form Past Simple of regular verbs by adding -ed to the verb.

⇒ play → played, ask → asked, start → started, wash → washed

I cleaned my room yesterday.
They waited for two hours.

Look at these other regular spelling rules:

We use did or didn’t and the base form for questions and negative forms.

⇒ I didn’t enjoy the film.
When did you start that book?

Who, where, what, when, why, how

We use question words (who, where, what, when, why and how) when we ask for information.

Questions with question words usually have the same word order as yes/no questions.

⇒ Do you like it? Yes, I like it. Why do you like it?
Is he leaving? Yes, he’s leaving. When is he leaving?
Did it happen? Yes, it happened. How did it happen?
Will you go? Yes, I’ll go. Where will you go?
Did you do it? Yes, I did it. What did you do?

We often use who as the subject of a question, without do, does or did.

⇒  Who likes pizza?
Who wrote this?

We can also use it inthe same pattern as a yes/no question.

⇒ Can you talk to someone? Yes, I can talk to someone. Who can you talk to?

Were you at school yesterday?

Choose the correct option

Choose the correct option to complete the sentence

Two young adventurers

Complete the text with the verbs in Past Simple

Irregular verbs

Write the verbs in Past Simple form

⇒ give — gave

Write the base form of the verbs

⇒ come — came

become — became

An accident

Listen to the recording and put the pictures in the correct order

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What happened to Sophia?

Write past tense questions

Example:

What was the weather like?

— It was warm and sunny.

Katy’s day

Look at the pictures and write the question

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Katy talks about her day

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Last weekend

How did you spend your last weekend?

Write about your last weekend. Use the questions below as a plan

• What time did you get up?
• What did you have for breakfast?
• Did you do homework?
• Did you do housework?
• Where did you go?
• How did you spend the afternoon?
• Who did you meet?
• What did you do in the evening?

Wordlist

Essay

Learn the irregular verbs

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