8. European Day of Languages
1. Which is the top bilingual country?
2. What percentage of Spanish people speak three languages?
3. Name 5 English words that have a Latin origin
4. Name 5 English words that have a Germanic origin
5. Which foreign language is considered as the second most useful
one by Spanish people
6. Which three languages make us trilingual?
7. How do people cry in Japanese? Shik
8. How many people in Europe speak languages that are not official
EU languages?
9. What percentage of UK citizens do not speak any foreign
languages?
10. What percentage of the world's population is multilingual?
9. A young Albanian born Mother Teresa with her older sister Aga,
in Macedonian traditional costume.
She used to be
a nun
She had
a sister
She was born
in Albania in
1910
She became a
saint last
September
She used to be
beautiful
She used to live
in India
10. /i:/ Beach & bitch /i/
I used to go to the
beach in the summer. I
loved it!
We went to school together. She
used to be a bad bitch. She
scared me! Thanks to Tutoria
entre iguals, she changed
11. /i:/ Sheep / ship /i/
My grandfather used to have
sheep
People used to travel by ship in
the past. It was dangerous!
13. Simple Past: Form of regular verbs
• AFIRMATIU: Verbo en infinitivo + -ed (verbos regulares):
Consonante+ y = -ied (cried),
vocal + y= -ed (played),
CVC =doble consonante (planned)
– I cried a lot when I was a little child
• NEGATIU: Sujeto + didn't + infinitiu
– I didn't do the homework yesterday
•
INTERROGATIU: Did + sujeto + infinitiu
– Did you go to the cinema last week?
– WHERE did you go last week?
14. Simple Past: Use
• To talk about the past
– Dinosaurs went extinct a long time ago
• To talk about a past habit
– I seldom played football before I met him
• Repeated actions in the past
– He opened the door, looked at me and sat on a
chair.
15. Connected words
• Ago
• Last year, month…
• Yesterday
• In + months / seasons
• On + days of the week
• At + hours
18. Regular or Irregular?
stop, play, go, drink, jump, look, eat,
study, read, run, walk, get, take, cook
REGULAR (+ed) IRREGULAR
PLAY GO
STOP DRINK
JUMP EAT
LOOK READ
STUDY RUN
WALK GET
COOK TAKE
19. Regular or Irregular?
stop, play, go, drink, jump, look, eat,
study, read, run, walk, get, take, cook
REGULAR (+ed) IRREGULAR
PLAY - PLAYED GO – WENT
STOP - STOPPED DRINK – DRANK
JUMP - JUMPED EAT – ATE
LOOK - LOOKED READ – READ
STUDY - STUDIED RUN – RAN
WALK - WALKED GET – GOT
COOK - COOKED TAKE – TOOK
21. • Actions completed in the past Past simple
– James Cook sailed to Australia in 1770
• Habits or situations that are not true any more
used to
– I used to like dolls when I was a child
22. Negative and interrogative forms of
“used to”
• Questions
– Did you use to go to the movies?
• Yes, I did
• No, I didn’t
• Negative sentences
– I did not use to like beer when I was a teenager
Note: We only use “used to” in the past.
25. Past Simple / Past Continuous
• Past Simple: Completed actions in the
past.
Columbus sailed to America in 1492.
• Past Continuous: Actions happening at a
specific time in the past.
• Actions in progress in the past
– The sun was shinning all day yesterday
– I was sailing on a yatch last summer.
26. Past Simple / Past Continuous
• Past Simple: We usually use WHEN
We were looking at the map when the train came.
• Past Continuous: We usually use WHILE
While we were looking at the map the train came.
32. Past Simple or Past Continuous?
1. The plane arrived an hour ago. PS
2. They were waiting for Tom at 4 o’clock. PC
3. They found cheap tickets while they were browsing the
web. PS & PC
4. They were travelling when they discovered their
mistake. PC & PS
5. Nina was reading while Carl was sleeping. PC & PC
33. My great-grandfather was a pirate
He was / felt
• Cheerful
• Energetic
• Irritable
• Antisocial
• Lonely
I feel ….. About my great-
grandfather
• Thrilled
• Enthusiastic
• Upset
• Shocked
• Confused
34. The story I want to tell you
What did he do?
• How did he become a
pirate?
• Where did he go?
• When did he go there?
• Who did he go with?
• What happened?
• How did he feel?
What did he use to do?
• Write beautiful letters to my
great grandmother
• Spend many months on
Christmas Island.
• Kidnap rich people
• ….
35. What did he do?
Did he…?
• Set off from ___ by ship
• Travelled to
• Explore other lands
• Overcame obstacles
• Went around the world twice
• He went to___ on his way
to….
• He run out of…
• He overcame some obstacles
• Robbed many people
How did he feel
• lonely
36. Writing about something that
happened to you last week
• Last week, I….
• First, ….
• Then, …..
• Eventually, ….
• How did this situation make you feel?
You will get a better mark if you use words that you
learnt in lesson 1 and past simple, past continuous
and used to.
37. Self-correction
Instructions Yes No
Does the paragraph have at least four sentences? (2
points)
Does the text use since, for, already, never, ever, yet) (2
points)
Does the text use the past perfect and the past simple
correctly? (if both, 2 points, if only one, 1 points)
Is there any word that we have learnt in this lesson? (1
point for every word)
No major grammar, coherence or structure mistakes (1
point)
Is there a clear closing?
38.
39. • The last week I went to Barcelona and I ate a
restaurant.
• Last week, I went to Barcelona and I ate at AT
a restaurant.
• Finally I studied for a exam.
• Eventually, I studied for an exam.
• This day is very excited and im am happy
• This day was very exciting and I was happy.
40. • The last week, I playing a football in the park.
• Last week, I played football in the park.
• Last week, I went to the cinema with my
family. First, I went shopping.
• Last week, I went to the cinema with my
family. First, I bought some popcorn.