1. Activity1
While-speaking (What happened?)
Instruction
1. Work in pairs
2. Interview your partner about the following questions.
3. Come up to present your partner’s story in front of the class.
1. Did you have any………….…experience?
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2. What did it happened?
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3. Where were you?
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4. What were you doing?
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5. Who else was with you?
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6. How did you feel?
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2. Text 1
Vocabulary
strange (adj.) out of the ordinary; unusual
or striking
Example: I had a strange experience last
night.
disappear (v.) to pass out of sight; vanish
Example: While we were talking, he
disappeared.
experience (n.) the apprehension of an
object, thought, or emotion through the
senses or mind.
Example: Slipping at the canteen is my
most embarrassed experience.
impossible (adj.) unacceptable; intolerable
Example: It was impossible to get in
because no one knew the password.

3. Vocabulary: Adjective of emotion
embarrassed (adj.) feeling or showing
embarrassment
Example: I was embarrassed when I met Boy
Prakorn.
angry (adj.) Feeling or showing anger; incensed or
enraged
Example: -I feel angry with my younger sister.
excited (adj.) being in a state of excitement;
emotionally aroused; stirred.
Example: My brother was excited, when he went
rafting last month.
scared (adj.) made afraid
Example: I sometimes get scared when I see a
sneak.
bored (adj.) feeling weary because one is
unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current
activity.
Example: We get bored when we are studying
geography.
nervous (adj.) easily agitated or distressed; highstrung or jumpy
Example: We get bored when we are studying
geography.

4. Structure
Simple Past Tense and Past Continuous Tense
Past simple and Past continuous
S + V2
S + was/were + V.ing
Both the past simple and the past continuous refer to completed actions in
the past.
Most of the time when we are talking about such actions, we use the past
simple. This is by far the most common way of talking about the past.
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She smiled and showed me an old picture.
She said they often talk for hours!
I asked her but she didn't know anything.
The company made 100 people redundant last year.
Only use the past continuous when you want to emphasize the continuity of
the action.
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She was watching TV in the living room.
He was wearing the same clothes.
I was thinking about you the other day.
Were you expecting that to happen?
When we use these two forms in the same sentence, we use the past
continuous to talk about the "background action" and the past simple to
talk about the shorter completed action.
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I was cooking dinner when an old man came into the kitchen.
We talked for while and then suddenly, while we were talking, he disappeared.
He was going out to lunch when I saw him.
The company was doing well when I last visited it.

5. Text 3
(Text script)
Telling a story
Lucy: I had a strange experience last night, at my grandmother’s
house.
Nick: Oh yes? What happened?
Lucy: Well, I was cooking dinner when an old man came into the
kitchen…but my grandmother lives alone.
Nick: Well, I guess he was a friend.
Lucy: That’s what I thought. So, we talked for a while and then
suddenly, while we were talking, he disappeared.
Nick: But that’s important… What did you do?
Lucy: I told my grandmother. She was watching TV in the living
room.
Nick: And what did she say?
Lucy: She smiled and showed me an old picture. It was the same
man.
He was wearing the same clothes.
Nick: OK. So, who was it?
Lucy: Her husband. But he died twenty-five years ago, before I was
born!
Nick: What? That’s strange.
Lucy: The really strange thing is my grandmother didn’t mind. She
said they often talk for hours!