October 2013 Unit 2 Going places!

TRANSPORTATION

VOCABULARY OF TRANSPORTATION AIRPLANE SHIP BIKE SKATEBOARD BOAT SUBWAY BUS TAXI CAR TRAIN FERRY MOTORCYCLE

BUYING A TICKET

BUYING A TICKET One way or round trip? We need one adult and one child. Take me to the airport, please. The next boat leaves in ten minutes.

Car parts Door Engine Hood Horn Seat Steering wheel Tire Trunk Wheel windshield

Chat abbreviations 4 for 2 to & and @ at u you

Classroom activities Chatting Drawing on the board Eating snacks Laughing Listening to music Making paper airplanes Shouting Telling a joke Texting

GRAMMAR REFERENCE: PAST SIMPLE PAST SIMPLE: use the past simple to talk about actions, states and events that unfinished in the past. The past form of regular verbs ends in –ed, but many common verbs have an irregular past form. See page 134 for a list of irregular past forms. Use the past form in affirmative sentence only. In questions and negative sentences, did, or didn't indicates the past simple. The past form is the same for all persons.

Affirmative negative, yes/no questions short answer I got an A. She played golf. You can see it. page 111 You didn’t get an A Did he get a good grade? Yes, he did. No, he didn’t

Grammar focus: there was / there were There was and there were talk about the existence, number or location of something in the past. Use there was with singular and uncountable nouns. Use there were with plural nouns.

Affirmative, negative, yes/no question, short answer Affirmaive Negative Yes/no question Short answer There was an expensive car. There wasn’t a motorcycle. Was there a police officer? Yes, there was No, there wasn’t. There were two girls next to the car. There weren’t any boys on the street. Were there any adults around? Yes, there were. No, there weren’t.

Grammar reference: past continuous The past continuous describes an action in progress at a specific time in the past. Affirmative Negative Wh-question Yes/no question Short answer I was dancing. She wasn’t dancing. What was he doing? Were you studying Yes, I was. / No, I wasn’t. We were eating They weren’t eating. What were you eating? Was he studying? Yes, he was./No, he wasn’t. They were reading They weren’t reading What were they doing? Were they reading? Yes, they were./No, they weren’t.

Grammar focus: past simple vs. Past continuous Use the past continuous for a past action that is interrupted or stopped by another action. The past continuous describes a long action. Use the past simple for the action that interrupts or stops the long action. It’s often s a short action.

Past continuous vs. Past simple I was taking a shower when my friend called. We were playing video games when my mom arrived home.