EF12 Class 22 past tense, Rock and Roll

 

English Foundations 1&2

Speaking and Listening 1/2

 

Today’s class plan:

·      Return Test#4

Talk about compound sentences

·      Continue – past tenses of verbs

·      “Rock and Roll Music”

 

Tuesday

·      Continue with compound sentences

 

encountering wind

 

 

Test#4

What did you do in your home country?

 

-focus on past tense verbs

 

Fix and rewrite for a bonus point.

 

 

In my home country, I worked in a restaurant. We had Iranian food.

 

I worked in a restaurant. JOIN We had Iranian food.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

, so   , or   , but   , and

 

COMPOUND SENTENCE

I worked in a restaurant, and we had Iranian food.

I liked art. I studied drawing.

I liked art. JOIN I studied drawing.

I liked art, so I studied drawing. I liked art, and I studied drawing.

I wanted to go to college, but I didn’t have any money.

My friends and I went swimming, or we went hiking.

 

COMPOUND SENTENCE   , so   , or   , but   , and

 

I built furniture from/with/out of wood.

I built furniture out of woods different kinds of wood.

 

You pass give me your rewritten paragraph tomorrow at the beginning of class.

 

 

Exercise 8 Mini-Conversations

B. I liked it a lot. I didn’t like it very much.

 

 

YES/ NO question – tone rises at the end

 

 

2000-2009    two thousand  three, four

2010- 2023   twenty twelve, twenty twenty three

 

I moved/came/relocated to Vancouver is 2018.

I landed/arrived/settled/resettled in Vancouver in 2015.

I immigrated to Canada in 2022.

 

travel- short term, like a vacation

 

I went to Vancouver ten years ago. simple past

I have been to Seattle several times.  have been- present perfect

 

EF45 present perfect-

Exercise 9 Irregular Past Forms of Verbs

1.drink drank   The little kid drank a whole bottle of Coke.

2.give gave   She gave $50 to her husband. He was happy.

She gave $50 to her husband. JOIN He was happy.

She gave $50 to her husband, so he was happy. COMPOUND SENTENCE

3.tell told   I told him, “I love you.”

I told you not to leave the house.

I told answered the question.

I gave the answer to the question.

give an answer

He asked a question. She gave an answer.

4. read read

 

HOMEWORK

Exercise 9.

Write some sentences (4,5,6 of them) using the past tense of the verbs in Exercise 9.

Email them to me by tonight.

e.g buy bought   I bought a shirt last Saturday.

I bought a blue cotton shirt last Saturday in Richmond Centre.

Marshall’s – like Winners- nice clothes, low prices

 

forget forgot   Pardon me, but I forgot your name.

I forgot to do my homework. I forgot to get coffee this morning.

I’m sorry. I forgot to do my homework.

 

Email some sentences to me. We will share them tomorrow. I will give a bonus point for doing the homework.

ahaley@vsb.bc.ca

 

 

 

“Rock and Roll”