WORKSHEET: Past Simple - Listening & Reading

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At the restaurant

Dates of birth - American English

Take it as a dictation of dates of birth.

1. Just listen - don't watch the video yet- and write down the dates with numbers only.

2. Finished? OK, now watch and correct your notes.



With this second video, you can use either the dates of birth or death, or both. Say them aloud as follows:

Elvis Presley was born on ...
He died on ...

Songs in English and stories in Catalan at Pere Calders School

Listen to what we've done with these groups at Pere Calders School:

• 1B (6-year-olds). Arts and crafts & oral expression in Catalan. Kids have made a figure with salt paste. They've described it and made up a story.
• 2A (7-year-olds): What's for breakfast chant.
• 2B (7-year-olds): Hello song.
  

Likes and Routines Questions, by the GR2 students at IES Joan Oliver

Today the GR2 students at Joan Oliver Secondary School in Sabadell have asked each other a few questions about what they like and some habits.

Thanks for your willing collaboration, kids!


Now you can practise the simple present with these exercises: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Routines & habits. (1) Everyday life; (2) JOBS, "What do you do?"

Everyday Life.


What do the people do for a living? Just guess and listen for the first 4 minutes. Next the video is subtittled.


Now you can practise the simple present with these exercises: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Present Perfect vs Past Simple (Real English)

What have random people in New York done today?

What did they do yesterday?

WORKSHEET available.

Fernando Torres's Song

Fernando Torres's got a song. It's been made up by Liverpool's supporters and sung on the stands at Anfield, when the reds play at home.

1) Guess two or three ideas you expect to find in the lyrics. Write down your ideas at WORD LEVEL.
2) Listen to the song and follow the lyrics. You'll notice it's a short story itself.
3) Make a question for every sentence. There's a variety of tenses.
4) Can you make up another song about a different sportsperson?

Apologizing

Lewis Hamilton cheated in the first Grand Prix of the season in Australia. He was caught then and now he apologizes.

Anyway, we shouldn't be so strict with Hamilton. Come on! As a F1 driver he is expected to arrive the first, to be the fastest, not the most honest! Doesn't it happen the same with politicians?

BEFORE WATCHING

In what situations do people apologize? What words and expressions do you expect to hear in an apology. Think of how you apologize.

WHILE WATCHING

Compare your guessings with Hamilton's words. Any coincidences?

Watch the video again and try to transcribe Hamilton's key phrases or sentences.

AFTER WATCHING

Can you rewrite Hamilton's apology in other words?

FOLLOW UP

In pairs, write down an apology for having cheated in an exam. Then role-play it.

Do you want some more apologies? Here you are. Listen to Monica.

Abilities - What can you do, guys?

BEFORE WATCHING
1. Guess three musical instruments the people in the video can play.
2. Now, guess three dishes the people can cook.
3. Finally, guess four other things the people can do.

WHILE WATCHING
4. Check your guesses. How many have you scored? (0-10)
5. Watch the video again. Write down...
...the musical instruments the people can play.
...the dishes the people can cook.
...the other things the people can do.

Take your notes only at WORD level.

AFTER WATCHING
Make full sentences with the notes taken for exercise 5.

FOLLOW UP
Make a survey for all your classmates. Show your results graphically with a pie, bars, etc. Make sure there is a bar chart per question.

1. Can you play a musical instrument?
2. What musical instrument can you play?
3. Can you cook?
4. What's the favourite dish you can cook?
5. What other things can you do very well?

Look at this example for question #1. Do the same for all the questions:

When you are finished, send it to me at negroarroz@gmail.com


GRAMMAR PRACTICE with:
- can/can't: 1 2 3

- can/could: 1

Dare speak English in class! If Juande can, you can!!

My Town 3 -- Vocabulary: Places

• What's there in this town?
• Compare this with your town.

Reported Speech

Ability, Permission, Advice, Obligation/Prohibition

ABILITY:
Look around. Sometimes everything looks so disappointing. The Rolling Stones couldn't get any Satisfaction in the 60's.
1. Why?
2. What else can't you do?



PERMISSION:

Joe Cocker is playing a funny game. Let's call it "You can leave your hat on". If you don't want to play it, just listen to revise some vocabulary about clothes and the structure for permission.

ADVICE:

Listen to Should I stay or should I go? by The Clash. The vocalist is complaining about his relationship with a girl.

1. Spot the four sentences conveying an advice.
2. The guy mentions two choices about what to do. Are any of them satisfactory? Why
3. Why doesn't he know what to do?
4. The boy promises something. What is it?
5. When does she feel happy with him?
6. Do you think the girl really loves him?
7. What piece of advice would you give him? What should he do?

GLOSSARY:

cool (v) to make colder.

blow (v) to explode.

bug (v) to bother.

tease (v) to annoy someone by deliberately offering something with the intention of delaying or withdrawing the offer.

OBLIGATION:
Freddie Mercury sang with The Queen "The Show Must Go On". It was a moral inner obligation for everybody to keep on going, when he was no longer in the band. Bloody AIDS!
1. Can you think of any other things we must do?
2. Can you also say some things we mustn't do?

Countable and Uncountable Food Items

What food do you like?
Express quantities.

Past continuous

More about the past in progress.
What were they doing?



A man went back to his travel agency after his holiday. He was not happy at all. Why was he complaining?

1st versus 2nd conditional

Watch the two videos. The first one is about a musician. The second one is a scene of Fiddler on the roof, where a poor man talks about his life and expectations.

1. Which video is related to a hypothetical, improbable situation?
2. Which one is related to a probable consequence?
3. Can you write down a model sentence from each video and analyse their structure, as follows:

If + Subject + ...

4. Send a comment with your 1-3 answers.

In case you need some practice on: the 1st conditional: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; the 2nd conditional: 1 2 3 4 5

My Town 2

Thanks to Álex, Olga, Marc and Nil we can enjoy a new video about your home town.

Guess:
1. What do you think they like about Barberà?
2. What don't they like?
3. Share your ideas with your partner.
4. Watch the video and check your answers.

Thank you very much for your collaboration, kids!

Excuse me? Do you know where a bank is?

Finding your way around the city while on holiday can be difficult unless you know what to say. Understanding directions is a big part of this.
Revise the prepositions of place: across from - behind - between - in front of - near - next to - opposite.
Now you are ready for this listening quiz and this unscrambling activity.

My Town

There are lots of places in a town.
1. How many can you think about? Parks, ...
2. Put your ideas in common with a few classmates. Any more places altogether?
3. Take all those places into account to say what you like about your town. Follow the model of the video.


For more practice on there's/are do these quizzes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.