Simple past review Love, like, don't mind, hate Get

1. UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DEL NORTE
ACADEMIC LANGUAGE CENTER
LEVEL 1
UNIT 1
Maria Jose Morocho MSc.

2. SIMPLE PAST: AFFIRMATIVE
• I painted a graffiti on the wall yesterday.
• I took the bus to downtown.
• Mishell wrote a love letter.
• We drank beers last week.
• He loved to listen to reggaeton.
We used Simple Past for an action that already happened. This action began in the
past and ended in the past.

3. REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS
Regular verbs: add –ed to the verb Irregular verbs: see the list in your book
Love – loved Be – was/were
Help – helped Speak – spoke
Walk – walked Write – wrote
Paint – painted Sing – sang
Lock - locked Swim – swam
Erase – erased Put – put
Look – looked Cut – cut
Clean – cleaned Run – ran
Brush - brushed Sleep - slept

4. SIMPLE PAST: NEGATIVE
• Add didn’t to the affirmative sentence to create negative.
Positive Negative
I cleaned the house yesterday. I didn’t clean the house yesterday.
Linda wrote a book. Linda didn’t write a book.
Tom erased the board. Tom didn’t erase the board.
She taught English.
He thought about his homework.
We swam for 3 hours.

5. SIMPLE PAST: QUESTIONS
Use did (auxiliary) at the beginning of the question.
• Ex.:
• Did you read the book?
• Did you study English?
• Did you take a picture?
In Simple Past questions, we write the auxiliary at the beginning and the verb in base
form.

6. READING ACTIVITY
• In groups, students read “The First Fire Company” book. Pre-reading: Ss will look at
the pictures in the book to figure out the topic. Reading: Ss will identify and
underline verbs in simple past. Post – Reading: After that, they will categorize verbs
between regular and irregular verbs in a chart.
• In groups, orally Ss will re-tell the story to their friends using L1 to help them
understand the books topic. Then, they will write a collaborative summary using
simple past and their own words.
• Finally, Ss will answer comprehension questions to review (Simple Past: yes/no and
information questions )

7. COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
• Long time ago, did people have firefighters?
• What was the material to built houses in the past?
• Did people who put out fire by hand have success? Why?
• Who was the pioneer in creating the first fire company?
• What objects did firefighters use to put out the fire?

8. HOMEWORK GD
• Use your copies
• Page 70 Read “The silk Road” – exercises a, b, c, d, e
• Page 71 Vocabulary Transport – exercises a, b, c
• Page 71 (3 Grammar) Read “My dream journey on the silk road” – exercises a, b
• Finish the summary for the next class.

9. TIMETABLE
• Quiz: simple past irregular verbs
• Complete Page 78: Grammar a, b
• Vocabulary: Page 71, 73
• Love, like, don’t mind, hate uses
• Get uses in phrases.
• HOMEWORK
• Page 78 Vocabulary a, b
• Page 40 Vocabulary a
• Page 41 Vocabulary a, b

10. LOVE, LIKE, DON’T MIND AND HATE
LOVE/ LIKE
• I love riding my bike on weekends.
• I like watching movies with my friends.
Don’t mind
• I don’t mind lending money to my friends.
• I don’t mind giving my sit to an old person.
HATE
• I hate washing the dishes.
• I hate cleaning my bedroom.
POSITIVE
NEUTRAL
NEGATIVE

11. SPEAKING ASSESSMENT
LOVE, LIKE, DON’T MIND AND HATE
Use the example below to describe what you love, like, hate.
Ex:
Hello everyone. My name is ……
I love reading mystery books, but I like reading, horror books, too. On the other hand,
I hate eating vegetables, but I don’t mind working on weekends.

12. GET + PHRASE
get
Get a phone call
Get old
Get to work
Page 78: wordpower get
Look at wordpower and identify the phrases using get and add
them to the mind map