Revising the Past

Past simple & Past Continuous

Past Simple Past Continuous

•Short actions (quick)•Finished actions•Keywords: when, suddenly…

•Long actions •Actions still in progress•Background actions: used to describe contexts•Keywords: while, as , when…

I was sleeping when suddenly the burglar broke into my house.

Examples:

• The telephone rang when I was having a bath.

• While they were watching TV, thieves broke into the house.

• As I was reading the paper, I heard a loud noise.

• While Susie cleaned the floor, Alice washed the clothes.

Structures

Past Continuous:Subj.+ was/were+ v-ing (affirmative)Subj.+ wasn’t/weren’t+v-ing (negative)(Wh-) Was/were +Subj.+ v-ing (question)Past Simple:Subj.+ - ed + object ( affirmative)Subj.+didn’t+ Inf+ Object ( negative)Did+ Subj.+ Inf.+ Object? ( question)

Simultaneous Actions

• He was reading a book while I was cooking dinner.

• While I was rocking the baby I was sleeping.

• Use of the Simple Past and Past Continuous in Writing• 1. Put the following verbs into the simple past • Thomas __lived___ (live) in the small town of Brington. He

_______ (love) walking through the beautiful forest that surrounded it. One evening, he ____ (take) his umbrella and _____ (go) for a walk in the woods. He ______ (meet) an old man named Frank. Frank _______ (tell) Thomas that if he _____ (want) to become rich, he should invest in a little known stock called Microsoft. Thomas ______ (think) Frank _____ (be) foolish because Microsoft ____ (be) a computer stock. Everybody _____ (know) that computers _____ (be) just a passing fad. At any rate, Frank _______ (insist) that Thomas _____ (be) wrong. Frank _______ (draw) a wonderful graph of future possibilities. Thomas ______ (begin) thinking that maybe Frank ______ (understand) stocks. Thomas _______ (decide) to buy some of these stocks. The next day, he ______ (go) to the stock broker's and _____ (buy) $1,000 worth of Microsoft stock. That _____ (be) in 1986; today that $1,000 worth of stock is worth more than $250,000!

WRITING TIME

It’s your turn…

. Written/spoken follow-up

3. Written/spoken follow-up.• Write an outline of an important day in your life.

Make notes in the past simple on the most important events that occurred. Then add a description of what was happening at some of the specific moments: use the past continuous). Then tell your partner (or group members) the story. Hint: you can "embellish" your story (add a few parts that are not true!). The "story map" on the next page may help you make an outline.

Narrative Essay

• Write 200+ words in 45 minutes on an important day in your life (e.g. "The best/worst/scariest/most important day"). Use at least 3 paragraphs (a. an introduction – can set the scene or begin your story directly b. one or more paragraph(s) for different times/events in your story c. a conclusion/resolution/result). Use your story map to help you.

• You should use mostly simple past but can sometimes add more details (and words!) with the past continuous/progress (as/while/when + subject + was/were + verb + ing). You can also, rarely, use the past perfect (had + past participle) when you write about two events in the past.

Vocabulary

Warming-up1) Is it difficult for you

to express your feelings? Who with?

2) When do you usually feel happy as larry?

Look at the picture above. How would you feel if you were in that situation??

How would you feel in this situation?

•I would feel ….. Because….

FEELINGS• Mischievous (miskívus)• Blissful ( blísful)• amused (amiúst) • calm (kám) • cheerful (chíirful) • confident (confident) • content (kontént)

eager (íguer) • satisfied (sátisfáid) • ecstatic (ekstátic) • enthusiastic (enzusiástic)

inspired (inspáierd) • elated (iléitid) – regocijado

energetic (eneryétic) • pleased (plíist)

excited (eksáitid) • grateful (gréitful) • thrilled (zríld)

hopeful (hóupful)

MOOD

• afraid (afréid) – con miedoangry (áangry) – enfadadoannoyed (anóid) – disgustadoashamed (ashéimd) – avegonzadobored (bóord) confused (confiúst)

• depressed (diprést) • lonely (lóunli) – solo y triste

upset (apsét) • sad (sáad) • tired (táierd)

disappointed (disapóintid) distressed (distrést)

• embarrased (embárrast) frightened (fráitend)

• frustrated (frástréitid) • jealous (dchélos)

worried (uórrid)

VERBS & FEELINGS• POSE • SMILE• FROWN• MAKE A FACE• LAUGH• TO BE GLAD• TO ANGER• TO REGRET• TO BOTHER• TO SURPRISE• TO FEAR• TO DOUBT• TO DENY

VERBS & FEELINGS

• HOPE

• TO HUG

• CUDDLE

• EMBRACE

NOW YOUR TURN!

1. Comment the following picturesWith your partner.

2. What are the doing?

Key sentences:

• OK. Let me see ... what do these photos show?The first/second picture/photo shows ...

• Thank you, Alex. Yuko, which of these pictures do you prefer?

• Liking: I prefer A to B. I like A more than B. I like A, but I dislike B. A is more ... than B

• Giving your opinion• In my opinion, ...

For me, ...I think that ...

It seems to me that…

Subject & Object questions

• SUBJECT QUESTION: A subject question asks about the subject of the sentence.Do NOT change the word order of the question SUBJECT+ VERB+ OBJECT

• OBJECT QUESTION: An object question asks about the object of the sentence.You MUST change the word order of the question.

Subject & Object questions

Gina is fixing the computer. 

Who is fixing the computer?

Subject /object ?

Gina met Mary.

Who did Gina meet?

Subject/ Object?

Subject & Object questions

• More practice

• http://ies1libertas.edu.gva.es/departamentos/ingles/PDFs/cuarto/esubobj4e1.pdf

• Further Details

• http://www.slideshare.net/eoi.soraya/subject-object-questions