1. Happy New Year!

2. We will do a dance to celebrate!

3. “If you’re”

4. “Know it”

5. “clap your hands”

6. “stomp your feet”
• Everyone take a handout.

7. New Year’s resolution (promise)…..
My new year’s resolution is… Examples:
• To exercise more
• To eat less junk food
• To study more
• To stop smoking
For me:
“To have a healthier lifestyle”
Take some time to write your
new years resolution and draw a
picture……

8. Class “Resolutions”

9. Also…..classroom Rules…..
1. Respect your peers
2. Respect the process

10. Reminder: What not to do…..

11. What to do in class…..

12. Okay…..Subject Pronoun Review….
How can we remember?
• He
• She
• It
• They

13. Meaning of the Simple Past
• A completed action in the past
• Use it when we want to talk about last
weekend!

14. Comparison of the Verb: To Be
Present Tense Simple Past
• I: Am • I: Was
• You: Are • You: Were
• He/She/It: IS • He/She/It: Was
• We: Are • We: Were
• You (with me): Are • You (with me): Were
• They: Are • They: Were
• But what about
some other verbs?

15. Patterns

16. Examples:
• Simple Present: I visit my friend everyday.
• Past tense: Yesterday, I visited my friend
• Simple Present: I order pizza for lunch.
• Yesterday, I ordered pizza for lunch.
• She watches TV everyday.
• Yesterday, she watched TV.
What is the pattern here?

17. Change these into the Simple Past
using “-ed”
1. I enter the building
2. We fold kites.
3. It heals well.
4. They record music.
5. You instruct him.
6. She plays with him.
7. I own a house.
8. We exercise everyday.
9. They study together.
10. He stops the car.

18. Regular Verbs: Tricky Spellings!
“End with an –e then just ad –d!”
• Fire  Fired
• Balance  Balanced
End with Y (with a consonant before) then “drop the –y
add – i , ed!”
• Terrify  Terrified
• Fry  Fried
• Examples when not to drop the –y
• Pray  Prayed
• Play  Played

19. More tricky spellings: Simple Past
• Doubling the consonant.
If the verb ends in a
consonant + vowel + consonant
Then you must double the last consonant then add + ed
Stop  stopped
Plan  Planned
Bin  Binned
Slip  Slipped
Do not double if word ends with x or w
Fix  Fixed
Mix  Mixed

20. Not so simple….because of irregular
verbs……
Present Tense: I drive to school.
Past Tense: I drove to school.
Present Tense: I write books.
Past Tense: I wrote books.
What’s the pattern here?

21. Let’s try some of these Irregular
Verbs….
1. I catch fish.
2. You build a tower.
3. He buys fish everyday.
4. We dig for treasure.
5. They come from France.
6. The cat breaks it.
7. It cost 100 dollars.

22. Max the Cat pt. 1
What verbs do you remember from the video?

23. Bingo! Add these verbs to your sheets!
Draw a picture for each one as
well.
• Sleep/Slept • Bring/Brought
• Run/Ran • Put/Put
• Fly/Flew • Feed/Fed
• Catch/Caught • Go/ Went
• Fall/Fell
• Beat/ Beat
• Break/ Broke
• Shake/ Shook

24. Max the Cat Part 2.

25. What if we were going to turn the
simple past into a negative by adding
“Not”?
For answering questions about the past.
Regular Example: Yesterday, I talked to John. I
didn’t talk to Sarah.
Irregular: Saturday I slept a lot. Sunday, I didn’t
sleep.
Construction: Did not + Verb (infinitive)

26. Write these words down on your Bingo Boards!
What do you think the conjugation will
be?
• Give
• Hold
• Swim
• Take
• Fight
• Bite
• Hang
• Tell
• Went
Lets turn these into some negatives as well!

27. Max the Cat pt. 3
Pay attention to the story.

28. Add these irregular verbs to your
Bingo Sheets:
• One box is “Free”
• Have/Had
• See/Saw
• Come/Came

29. Simple Past Worksheet

30. When we talk about New Years…..
OR….

31. New Years! Find someone who
worksheet….

32. CNN year in Review
What were your ‘big’ stories?

33. The Year in Rap 2012!

34. Who did Obama give more rights too?

35. What happened to Facebook.com
stock?

36. Who did the HEAT put a ‘ring’ on?

37. Where were the first ever democratic
elections held? Syria and ………..?

38. Palestine is a ………………..?

39. What did we see the space shuttle
catch?

40. Lets talk a bout the answers to the
questions?

41. 5 Minute Break

42. Picture Role Play Game

43. On Vacation p. 22
• Other Words for a Vacation:
Holiday
Recess
Leave
“take a trip”

44. Example 6A: Making questions with
the word “Did”
• A: Did they meet friends?
• B: Yes they did.
• Turn the following pictures into “did”
questions (6A)

45. Go camping

46. Read a book

47. Go sightseeing

48. Visit museums

49. See a movie

50. Auxiliary: “Did”
• What does “did” mean in a question? Past,
present or future?
• Using “Did” at the beginning of a question
requires a yes/no answer.

51. Asking “Wh” -questions + “Did” to get
more information.
“What did you do” (do is • Answer: Simple Past
in the infinitive) verb
“Where did” • Location: Simple past
verb + place
“Who did” • Simple past verb +
identity of people

52. My vacation in Laos

53. Lao “Grand Canyon”

54. I took a bus

55. The canyon was big!

56. I climbed down these stairs

57. I saw this waterfall

58. I ate blue sticky rice.

59. Then I saw this bigger waterfall

60. This was a smaller waterfall that I saw.

61. I walked across this bridge.

62. I climbed these rocks.

63. And I looked at this waterfall.

64. Notice: Verbs I used to describe my
vacation
Present tense form: Simple Past form:
• Be • Was
• Take • Took
• Eat • Ate
• Climb • Climbed
• See • Saw
• Walk • Walked
• Climb • Climbed
• Look • Looked

65. Any questions about my vacation?
• Use “did” (for yes/no answer)
• Use “Wh-” word + “Did” (to find out more
information)

66. When you go on a vacation where do
you stay?

67. We will listen to a song:
Hotel California by The Eagles

68. Highway

69. Shimmering Light

70. Doorway

71. Candle

72. Corridor

73. Courtyard

74. Calling

75. Mirrors

76. Pink Champagne

77. Chambers

78. Knives

79. Programmed

80. Instructions
• Make sure you understand and can pronounce
the words. Ask a partner about the ones you
do not know.
• Draw a picture and/or write a sentence for
each word.
• Predict what you think the song is about?

81. Watch the video.
• What do you think the song is about?
• What happens in the video?

82. Listen and Fill in the blanks
• Take a moment to look at the fill in the blanks
sheet.
• After compare with a partner and discuss.

83. Listen and Fill in the Blanks Again
• Pairs compare answers and talk.

84. Any questions about the song?
• What does the song mean to you?
• Do you want to visit the “Hotel California?”

85. 7 (A+B) listening activity
• Take a minute to look at the instructions.
• Listen to the dialogue and number the
activities.

86. Remember the Details Game
• Two Teams
• Remember as much as you can from your
picture
• Give the other team the picture you studied
• Ask questions about what the other team
remembers about their picture. The correct
answer gets one point.

87. Summary
• If you’re happy and you
know it song/dance
• Simple Past Regular vs.
Irregular Verbs
• New Years Resolutions/
Videos
• Simple Past + “Did”
questions
• My Lao Vacation
• The Hotel California