Monday February 28

How many days does February usually have? How many days are there in a year? When it is leap year, how many days are in February/ How many days are there in a leap year? What will you do with this extra day? What will the world be like in 4 years?

Agenda Warm Up- About you Grammar: Unit 2 Review Listening Practice Speaking Grammar Unit 3 Reading

Announcements On Wednesday, we will go to the computer lab to do data entry. On Thursday, we have a quiz and I have a teacher’s meeting at 8:30. Please be sure to come to class on time.

About you Use these questions to ask another student about the time when he or she lived in his or her native country? 1. Did you study English in your country? 2. Did you live in a big city? 3. Did you live with your parents? 4. Did you know a lot about the U.S? 5. Did you finish high school? 6. Did you own a car? 7. Did you have a job? 8. Did you think about your future? 9. Were you happy?

Grammar Review Unit 2 Positive statements in Simple Past Negative Statements S + Be (past) S + Be (past) + not I was hungry. Yalda wasn’t hungry. They were late. Jesus and Marco weren’t late.

Grammar Review Unit 2 Positive Statements (regular) Negative Statements (regular) S + past verb S + did + not + base verb He traveled to Japan. We did not (didn’t) travel abroad. Positive Statements (irregular) Negative Statements (irregular) S + past irregular verb S + did + not + base irregular verb Jenny went home last week. Jenny did not go home last week.

Grammar Review Unit 2 How do you form past tense yes or no questions with be verbs? Singular Plural Be (past) + S +… Be (past) + S Was (he/she/it/I) +…. Were (we/they/ you) +… Was he late? Were they late? Answer: Yes, he was. Answer: Yes they were. No, he wasn’t. No, they weren’t.

Grammar Review Unit 2 How do you form past tense yes or no questions with do verbs? Did questions Did + S + Base Did (he/ she/ it/ you/ I/ we/they) +base verb? Did you sleep last night? Answer: Yes, I did. No, I didn’t.

Grammar Review Unit 2 How do you form wh- questions with be verbs in the past tense? Wh questions (singular) Wh questions (plural) Wh + be (past) + S Wh + be (past) + S When When Where was (he/ she/ it/ I) +… Where were you/ we/they +…. Why Why When was she here? Why were they late?

Grammar Review Unit 2 How do you form wh- questions with do verbs in the past tense? Wh questions Wh + did + S + base When Why did (he/ she/ it/ I/ you/ we/they) + work? When did she work? Why were they late?

pp. 29 Unit 2 review

Listening, exercise 8 Exercise A and B, pp. 26

Speaking Practice Make a timeline similar to the one of my life. 1982 1987 2000 2006 2013 │________|_________|________|_________|_________|________| Born Came Graduated traveled Started teaching to the U.S. From high school to Italy and Costa Rica After you have created your timeline, share your life stories with your group. Remember to use the simple past.

Reading strategies What is the main idea? When we read, sometimes we want to know every word in the reading and we immediately look at our dictionaries. But sometimes, we don’t have enough time to do that, so it is more important to focus on the main idea or the meaning of the reading. Without telling your group the name of the movie, describe the main idea of the story of your favorite movie. * The main idea is usually one sentence long and it tells us everything about the story.

Reading In tonight’s reading, we will read about a famous soccer player and do some activities with the reading.

Past progressive- Note 1 We use the past progressive to focus on how long past action was. Paul was reading a book last night. We don’t know if he finished reading the book. All we know is that he was reading.. He was reading a book at 11:30PM. We often use the past progressive with a specific time in the past. What were you doing at 9PM last night? I was sleeping.

Grammar Unit 3 The Titanic was sailing to New York. Some people were sleeping when it hit the iceberg. The was not carrying more than 3,000 passengers. How do you form the past progressive? Be- past (was/ were)+ verb(ing) Which verb forms are in the past progressive in the first two examples? Was sailing Were sleeping

Grammar Unit 3 Which pronouns need was plus –ing? I/ he/ she/ it Which pronouns need were plus an –ing form? You/ we/ they

Grammar Unit 3 How do you form the negative past progressive? Was/ were + not + verb(ing) Can you make these two sentences into negative past progressives? The Titanic was sailing to New York. The Titanic was not sailing to New York. Some people were sleeping when it hit the iceberg. Some people were not sleeping when it hit the iceberg.

Grammar Unit 3 Can you make these two sentences into negative past progressives with contractions? The Titanic was not sailing to New York. The Titanic wasn’t sailing to New York. Some people were not sleeping when it hit the iceberg. Some people weren’t sleeping when it hit the iceberg.

Yes/ No questions How do you form yes/ not questions in the past progressive? Was/were + subject+ verb(ing) Band/ sank/ was/ when/ playing /it How would I use these words to make a yes or no question? Was the band playing when it sank? What are possible answers to this question? Yes, it was. No, it wasn’t.

Wh - questions Can you turn this question into a wh question? Was the band playing when it sank? What was the band doing when it sank? Why was the band playing when it sank? How do you form wh- questions? Wh- + was/were + subject + verb(ing)

Exercise 2 pp. 36

Simple past When do we use the simple past? I ate dinner. Paul read a book last night. Did I finish dinner? Did Paul read a book? Are these finished actions? Yes!

Simple past Do we use non-action verbs in the progressive? Are these sentences correct? I was loving the song. She was hearing about the disaster? No! Why?

Simple past and past progressive We use both of these tenses together to talk about an action that was stopped by another action. I was exercising when he called. While he was running, he fell. What is the past progressive verb? What is the past progressive verb? What is the simple past verb? What is the simple past verb? We use when to introduce the simple past action. We use while to introduce the past progressive.

We use while to introduce the past progressive. While I was reading, Amy was sleeping. Amy was sleeping while I was reading.

She drove home when she heard the news. Which happened first? They ate when they got hungry. When I heard the news, I went to the hospital.

What is the meaning of this? Note 5 She was driving when she heard the news. I was eating dinner when the phone rang.

Exercise 3

Exercise 4 pp. 38

What did you learn? Do NOT write. I learned about the present progressive. This tells me nothing. 

At the end of class… What did you learn? In one to two sentences, write what you learned. This will help you to review for quizzes and tests.