1. October 2013
Unit 2 Going places!

2. TRANSPORTATION

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

4. BUYING A TICKET

5. 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.

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

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

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

11. 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.

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

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