SIMPLE PAST TENSE

 PAST TENSE

OBJECTIVE

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to narrate past events.

WARM UP

Read the clues and complete the crossword.

1.      Date of the Twins Towers      attack

2.      Year of the Colombia    Independence

3.      Date of the Boyacá Battle

4.      This is the year that Armero disaster happened.

5.      Colombia won Argentina 5-0 in this year

6.      The Challenger disaster happened this year.

7.      He won the 2019 Tour de France

8.      This is the year when Colombus arrived to America.

9.      The separation of Panama occurred this year.

10. Chapecoense plane crashed

GRAMMAR

The simple past is a verb tense that is used to talk about things that happened or existed before now.  (El pasado simple es un tiempo verbal que es usado para hablar acerca de eventos o cosas que ocurrieron o existieron antes)

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 Type→Typed Listen→Listened Push→Pushed Love→Loved

 

For irregular verbs, things get more complicated. The simple past tense of some irregular verbs looks exactly like the root form:

 

Put→Put Cut→Cut Set→Set Cost→Cost Hit→Hit

 

For other irregular verbs, including the verb to be, the simple past forms are more erratic:

 

See→Saw Build→Built Go→Went Do→Did Rise→Rose Am/Is/Are→Was/Were

 

 ACTIVITIES

Write a paragraph in past tense using the verbs

                          CLEAN           LISTEN        DO         WATCH         HAVE

Read the text and choose the correct answer for each one question.

 THERE IS  -  THERE ARE

OBJECTIVE

By end of the lesson, students should be able to provide information about the existence or location of one o some objects in a specific place.

WARM UP

Read the clues and complete the crossword. (Lee las pistas y completa el crucigrama)

1.      1. Juan Domínguez Romero is an example of this kind of buildings
2.  You can save money there.
3.   In Cartagena, there is one called San Felipe.
4.   It is children´s house.
5.   In Egypt, there are some of them.
6.  . Gecolsa is an example of them.
7.    In Barranquilla you can find one of them and it is called Miss Universe Paulina Vega
8.   They were attacked on September eleventh.
9.    It is called “Metropolitano”
10. On the American Bar street, you can find many of them.

1                                   4     2     5         3                         6               7                     9   8                             10                     GRAMMAR              There is a mall near Hipodromo                                There are some toys on the floor Affirmative              There is a big bathroom upstairs   Negative                 There isn´t a big bathroom upstairs Interrogative            Is there a big bathroom upstairs?                                   Yes, there is.                                 No, there isn`t. There aren`t three Windows in the bedroom. There are only two.   Are there four bedrooms in your house?    Yes, there are.                                                          No, there aren´t.   We use there is before singular nouns. Ex: there is a bedroom upstairs   We use there are before plural nouns. Ex: are there two windows in the room?   ACTIVITIES Employing the crossword vocabulary, write a paragraph at least eight (8) lines when you comment the places that we can find in Soledad. You must use the expressions “there is” and “there are” Write affirmative sentences using there is or there are. (Escribe oraciones afirmativas usando “There is” hay en singular y “there are” hay en plural). 1. ___________________ five shops.    2. ___________________ a lot of restaurants.     3.___________________ a building.    4. ___________________ some parks.     5. ___________________a library.  6. ___________________a bus station.   7. ___________________a sports center.  II. Write the sentences in exercise 1 into the negative form 1. ____________________________________________ 2. ____________________________________________ 3. ____________________________________________ 4. ____________________________________________ 5. ____________________________________________ 6. ____________________________________________ 7. ____________________________________________ III. Write the sentences in exercise 1 into the interrogative form. Add short answers about your city. 1. ________________________________________in your city?  _____________ 2. ________________________________________in your city? ______________ 3. ________________________________________in your city? _______________ 4. ________________________________________in your city? _______________ 5. ________________________________________in your city? _______________ 6.  ________________________________________in your city?  _______________ IV. Choose the correct words. 1. There’s / There are a TV.  2. There’s / There are four chairs in the living room. 3. Is there a / Are there any windows in the kitchen? 4. Is there a / Are there any teacher in the classroom? 5. There isn’t / There aren’t any pencils on the table. 6. There isn’t a / There aren´t any milk in the fridge. V. Complete the questions and short answers using the correct form of there is or there are. 1. ____________________a tree in this park? No, ________________ 2. ____________________an internet café in your city? Yes, _______________ 3. ____________________any hospitals near here? No, ________________  4. ____________________any buildings next to your school? Yes, _________________  5. ____________________a shop in this street? No, ___________________  6. ____________________any cinema in your town? Yes, _______________ 7. ____________________any students in the school? No, ____________