This document provides the lesson plan for an English language class focusing on the past tense verbs "was" and "were". The lesson includes activities like discussing art, a grammar presentation on was/were, exercises practicing was/were, a reading about Vincent Van Gogh with comprehension questions, word formation practice, and speaking activities describing famous people using was/were.

1. English file
Elementary
Unit 7A – Was / were

2. • Lead in – different types of art (5 mins)
• Art on display in your home – discussion (10 mins)
• Grammar – intro – Listening / comprehension (10 mins)
• Grammar – discussion Was / were (5 mins)
• Grammar – presentation was / were (5 mins)
• Grammar – exercises was / were (10 mins)
• Funny art quiz (10 mins)
• Pronunciation focus – sentence stress / weak forms (5 mins)
• Grammar practice – changing sentences – present to past (5
mins)
• Reading practice – self portraits – New vocabulary (10 mins)
• Reading practice – self portraits – Ordering events (5 mins)
• Discussion – which self portraits do you like best? (5 mins)
• Word formation – presentation (5 mins)
• Word formation exercises (5 mins)
• Speaking practice – describing famous people (was/ were
extra practice) (10 mins)
• Speaking practice – discussing taking photos (10 mins)

4. • What pictures on display do you have at home?
• In my home I have .............................................
• Do you have photos or paintings / posters?
• Yes, I do. I have ......... / No, I don’t.
• Do you have any favourite artists? Who are they?
• Yes, I do. My favourite artists are ......................
• Which artists or art styles is your country
famous for?
• My country is famous for ..................................
• My country doesn’t have any famous styles.

5. 1. Vincent van Gogh
2. He is 35 years
old.

7. This painting is a self-portrait by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.
Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands on the thirtieth of March eighteen
fifty-three. His parents weren’t poor ・his father was a church minister,
and his mother was an artist. Van Gogh’s first job was in his uncle’s
company, selling paintings, but later he was a teacher in England, and finally
a painter. We only really know what he looked like because of his many
self-portraits. Only three photographs of him exist, and they are all from
when he was young.
This portrait is from his time in Arles in the south of France, in eighteen
eighty-eight, when he was thirty-five. He was very poor, but he was happy
because of the beautiful light and colours there.

8. This portrait was a present for his friend, the painter Paul Gauguin.
Gauguin and van Gogh were together in Arles for a month. Van Gogh
was not strong mentally, and the relationship between them was
difficult. After a big fight, van Gogh cut off his ear, and was in a
mental hospital for some time. He died on the twenty-ninth of July
eighteen ninety. He was only thirty-seven years old. His paintings
weren’t popular during his lifetime and he was never rich or famous.
But today people think that Vincent van Gogh is one of the greatest
painters in the world, and his paintings, like Sunflowers, and The
Starry Night, sell for millions of pounds.

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were you
I was
Was it
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17. 2. He’s American. (pause) He was American.
3. They aren’t famous. (pause) They weren’t famous.
4. It’s very cheap. (pause) It was very cheap.
5. Where are they? (pause) Where were they?
6. Is she an actress? (pause) Was she an actress?
7. You’re right. (pause) You were right.
8. What’s his name? (pause) What was his name?
9. She isn’t happy. (pause) She wasn’t happy.
10. Are they tired? (pause) Were they tired?
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27. • Root word = teach (verb)
• job suffix – er
• Teacher
• Root word = Possible (adjective)
• Negative prefix – im
• impossible

28. writer
actor
singer
painter

29. 1 composer, dancer, director, inventor
2 artist, novelist, politician, scientist