LISTENING

REGULAR VERBS

Regular verbs

1.    Complete the sentences with the Past simple of the verbs in the box

/ˈɡrædʒueɪt/       /ˈstʌdi/         /tʃeɪndʒ/         /traɪ/            /stɑrt/        /daɪ/         /wɜrk /         /end/        /lɪv/         /help/        /wɔk/

a.   My brother _______ last year. He was at Glasgow University.

b.   The Second World War _______ in 1939, and ________ six years later, in 1945.

c.   Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ' n ' Roll,_______in 1977.

d.   There were no more buses, so I ________home.

e.   When I was at school, my parents often________ me with my homework.

f.     I ________ French when I was at school, but I don't remember very much now.

g.   I ________ to phone you last night, but there was no answer.

h.   When he was a young musician, Reg Dwight _______ his name to Elton John.

i.     The composer Chopin was born in Poland, but he _______ in France for many years.

j.     I _______ in cinema for a big computer company in the nineties.

SPELLING OF-ED ENDINGS

Spelling of -ed endings

 Read the phonetic spelling and write the Past simple tense of the verbs 

a  like /laɪk/ ___________

b enjoy /ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/ ___________

c travel / ˈtrævəl/ ___________

d study / ˈstʌdi/ ___________

e look  /lʊk/  ___________

f. dance  /dæns /  ___________

9 play /pleɪ/ ___________

h believe  /bəˈliv / ___________

i arrive  /əˈraɪv/  ___________

j fly  /flaɪ/ ___________

k receive  /rɪˈsiv/  ___________

l. stay  /steɪ/

AMELIA STORY

AMELIA EARHART

(American, 1898-1937)

The first woman pilot to fly the Atlantic Ocean

1.   Complete the text about Amelia Earhart, using the correct form of the verbs

Seventy years ago, Amelia Earhart (1)  was (be) America's favourite woman. In 1932, she (2)______ (tly) across the Atlantic Ocean alone: the first woman to do this. Her Journey (3)______ (start) in Newfoundland, Canadá: fifteen hours later, her Lockheed Vega airplane

(4) ______(arrive) in Londonderry. Ireland. People all over the world (5) ______(want) to meet this incredible woman. She (6) ______ (meet) King George V of England and (7)______ (become) friends with the US President, Frankiin D. Roosevelt.

The American people (8)______(love) her. Five years later, Amelia (9)______ (try) to fly around the world. An American University (10)_______ (give) her $50,000 for a new Lockheed Electra airplane. On the morning of July 2nd 1937, Amalia and her co-pilot, Fred Noonan (11)______ (leave) Lae, in New Guinea, and (12)______ (begin) their joumey to Howland island in the Pacific Ocean.

On July 3rd 1937. the American ship Itasca (13)_______ (receive) a radio mess-age from Amelia: a few minutes later her plane (14)______ (disappear). American ships (15)_______ (spend) nearly two weeks looking for the plane, but they (16)_______(find) nothing.

BINGO GAME

IRREGULAR VERBS BINGO

VOCABULARY

Irregular verbs

1. students are going to play a bingo game with irregular verbs

2. each student have a bingo card with some verbs in past simple form.

3.  students check the irregular verbs in present and past form and practice making sentences using the verbs that they have.

4. teacher  has the verbs in a bag, they are written in present tense then  the teacher picks up one paper with a verb and show  it to her/his students

5 students who have the verb in past tense on their bingos card have to cross it off  and make a sentence, a negative sentence or a question in past form using the verb choosen by the teacher. -This depends on what the teacher make students do-.

6. the winner student is who has completed bingo card.or who has completed the letter given by the teacher. This letters could be: X, an L, or a M as a usual bingo game.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY

If you want you can include the USED TO topic and practice with the students. The teacher makes students to ask questions, or make negatives and affirmative sentences in written or oral way.

PRACTICE VOCABULARY

SINGING PRACTICE

/lʊkhwɑːtjuːvdʌn/
_______my photo ________the wall
If it _______won't ________for you.

'Cause all that's left _________away
And there's ______therefor you to ______.

Chorus

Oh, look what ______
______a fool of _______

Oh, well, it ______like such ____________you lose what you _______

______me ______my point of view
_______I just can't ______for you.

I can hardly ______you say
What _______I do?
Well, you _______

Chorus

Oh, look what ______
______a fool of _______
Oh, well, it ______like such ____________you lose what you _______


Oh, look what _______
_______a fool of everyone.

A fool of everyone (x2)
_______my photo ______the wall
If it _______won't _______for you.


'Cause all that's left _______away
And there's _______there
for you to _______.

Chorus


Oh, look what ________
________a fool of everyone.

A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone


1./siːms/
2./ ˈevriwʌn/
3. /juːv/dʌn/(x2)
4 / ˈnʌθɪŋ/
5. /ɔːf /
6./fʌn/
7./teɪk/
8./tʃuːz/
9./juːv/meɪd/(x2)
10./hæd/wʌn/
11./dʒʌst/
12./hæz/ɡɔːn /
13/pruːv/
14./ʃʊd/
15. /ʌnˈtɪl/
16./ɡɪv/
17./θɪŋk/

18./ˈkɔːz/
19./sɪŋ/
20./hɪə(r)/
21./bæk/
22./duː/