Cambridge lesson 4 B2first

Today's class

• Questions about homework
• Starter: Quiz past simple and past continuous

• Main course:

- Past tenses: past perfect and past perfect continuous

- Speaking part 2

• Dessert: sentence starters

Homework:

Any questions??

Past simple and continuous

Quiz: present simple vs. present continuous (zie link in planner)

The 4  past tenses

• The past simple 
• The past continuous

I .............(go) to bed late last night.

I..............................(eat) my dinner, when the phone rang.

I..............(finish) writing my essay at midnight.

I...............(start) my new job in September.

What was Mark doing yesterday evening?
He.......................(watch) a film.

I..................(visit) five countries last year.

I..........................(walk)home from school when I saw a wallet on the pavement.

Main course

The 4  past tenses

• The past simple 
• The past continuous
• The past perfect simple
• The past perfect continuous

Narrative tenses page 17

I went to that Indian restaurant last week.

= past simple - states and actions in the past

 I was going there with Jane, an Australian friend.

= past continuous - to give background information

Narrative tenses page 17

I went to that Indian restaurant last week.

= past simple - states and actions in the past

 I was going there with Jane, an Australian friend.

= past continuous - to give background information

Narrative tenses page 17

I went to that Indian restaurant last week.

= past simple - states and actions in the past

 I was going there with Jane, an Australian friend.

= past continuous - to give background information

Narrative tenses page 17

I went to that Indian restaurant last week.

= past simple - states and actions in the past

 I was going there with Jane, an Australian friend.

= past continuous - to give background information

Past tense

1- What is the state of action?

Use the past simple

2- What is the background information?

Use the past continuous 

3- What happened earlier in the past (so before this action or until this action)

Use the past perfect or

 past perfect continuous 

Past tense

1- The girls met a young backpacker in a restaurant.

= Past simple 

2- The boy was travelling on his own.

= Past continuous 

3- The girls had never seen the boy before, until they met him in the restaurant.

= Past perfect

3- The boy had been travelling on his own for weeks so now he needed some company.

= Past perfect continuous

Narrative tenses page 17

I went to that Indian restaurant last week.

= past simple - states and actions in the past

 I was going there with Jane, an Australian friend.

= past continuous - to give background information

1- What is the state of action?

Narrative tenses page 17

I went to that Indian restaurant last week.

= past simple - states and actions in the past

 I was going there with Jane, an Australian friend.

= past continuous - to give background information

2- What is the background information?

Narrative tenses page 17

I went to that Indian restaurant last week.

= past simple - states and actions in the past

 I was going there with Jane, an Australian friend.

= past continuous - to give background information

3- What happened earlier in the past (so before this action)

Narrative tenses page 17

I went to that Indian restaurant last week.

= past simple - states and actions in the past

 I was going there with Jane, an Australian friend.

= past continuous - to give background information

3- What happened earlier in the past (until this action)

Speaking part 2: page 18/19

Bladzijde 18 student's book.

Same or different??

Useful language for part 2

Describing similarities and differences:

• This picture shows......, but that one.....
• In both pictures there's............though in this one......
• One difference between the pictures is that.......
• The two pictures are completely different because....
• They are similar in that they both show......
• The biggest difference between them is that this one shows........, but the other one......

Useful language for part 2

Saying which photo you are talking about:

• The top picture shows.......
• In the other photo there are.....
• In the one below, it looks as if......
• Both pictures show......
• In both pictures there are......

Useful language for part 2

Giving your opinion:

• In my opinion,
• I'd say that....
• Well I think......
• It seems to me....
• Well. my own feeling is that.....
• I'm convinced that.....
• My own view is that.......

Go to page 19

Work in pairs:

exam task

Complete the sentences

1. Yesterday,......................( past simple)

2. This afternoon I saw my sister while I ........................(past continuous)

3. By the time I finally arrived, my date.....(past perfect)

4. I could see he was upset- his eyes were red because he............(past perfect continuous)

Homework

Unit 2: Different tastes

- Wordlist unit 2

- Page 20: ex. 1 + exam task

 - Page 21: ex. 1

- online practice unit 2