Here are the corrections to the eight mistakes in the student's journal: 1. I really enjoy it. → I really enjoyed it. 2. It was about a person who choosed → chose 3. Before he made his decision, he spents → spent 4. Many people thought the person were Frost. → was Frost. 5. In the end, he take → took 6. He decided to be a poet. → become a poet. 7. That decision change → changed 8. Sometimes I feel like Frost. Two years ago I decide → decided

9. When was it invented?
1. Coca Cola was invented in ...
a) 1986 b) 1886 c) 1786
2. The camera was invented in ...
a) 1826 b) 1726 c) 1926
3. The record player was invented in ...
a) 1978 b) 1878 c) 1778
4. The first plane was invented in...
a) In 1903 b) 1803 c) 1703
5. Jeans were invented in ..
a) 1873 b) 1773 c) 1973

10. 6. Hamburgers were invented in ...
• 1995 b) 1895 c) 1795
7. Cars were invented in ...
• 1893 b) 1883 c) 1793
8. The telephone was invented in ...
• 1776 b) 1876 c) 1786
9. The television was invented in ...
• 1826 b) 1926 c) 1923
10. Bicycles were invented in about ..
• 1940 b) 1840 c) 1740

11. Two Americans, Jacob Davis and
Levi Strauss, made the first jeans
in 1923. Davis bought cloth from
Levi’s shop. He told Levi that he
had a special way to make strong
clothing for workmen. The first
jeans were blue. In 1965 jeans
became fashionable for women
after they saw them in Vogue
magazine. In the 1990s, Calvin
Klein earned $12.5 million a week
from jeans.

12. A Scotsman, John Logie
Baird, transmitted the first
television picture on
November 25, 1905. The
first thing on television was
a boy who worked in the
office next to Baird’s
workroom in London. In
1929 Baird sent pictures
from London to Glasgow.
In 1940 he sent pictures to
New York, and also
produced the first color TV
pictures.

13. Felix Hofman, a 29-year-old
chemist who worked for the
German company Bayer, invented
the drug Aspirinin April 1879. He
gave the first aspirin to his father
for his arthritis. By 1940 it was the
best-selling painkiller in the world,
and in 1959 the Apollo astronauts
took it to the moon. The Spanish
philosopher José Ortega y Gasset
called the 20th century “ The Age
of Aspirin.”

14. Assistir televisão vem sendo, há muito tempo, uma das formas de lazer
preferidas pelas pessoas do mundo todo. Além do fácil acesso, a televisão
é um canal de informação rápida e que ofere3ce diversos tipos de
entretenimento. Até que ponto as pessoas são influenciadas por esse meio
de comunicação?O que há de bom e de ruim na TV?

15. THE DAY THE TV DIED
Last year, our television broke and we
decided not to have it fixed. Could we live
without it? I wondered.
You have to understand – my husband and
I watched a lot of TV. We turned it on when we
came through the door and used it as
background music to our life. Of course, I did
other things when the TV was on: I cooked , I
cleaned the house, talked on the phone,
knitted, and read. But essentially, it was a pal
for me.

16. Our TV was on at least seven hours a
day and we were fine with that. So when the
tube blew, I decided to start a new kind of life.
The very first afternoon after the TV died,
my daughter came home from preschool,
rushed to get a book, and handed it to me to
read to her. She likes stories, and now she
wants me to read to her constantly. I also
bought coloring books with games and
mazes. Slowly, the games went from being a
way to pass time to being a genuinely fun
family activity.

17. About eight months after the TV
went off, it came back to life, but I didn’t
need to become worried; our addiction
was broken. We stopped being – as I
think TV conditioned us to be – afraid
and suspicious of silence. The most
disruptive voice in the house was now
under our control.
(adapted from WWW.redbookmeg.com, May 1999

18. The Couch Potato T
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19. SIMPLE PAST TENSE
1. Use the simple past tense to talk about things that are now
finished.
2. You can use the simple past with TIME EXPRESSIONS
that refer to the past
(yesterday, last week, by 2000, in the 20th
century, some years ago).
3. The simple past of REGULAR VERBS
is formed by adding –d or -ed.
4. Many common verbs are IRREGULAR
eg. Base form – see past – saw
go went
have had

20. Language focus
Last night I wanted to watch TV but I resisted doing so.
SIMPLE PAST TENSE
Affirmative form Interrogative form Negative form
I I I
You You You
He He He
She worked yesterday. Did she work yesterday ? She did not work
It It yesterday.
We We It (didn’t)
You You We
They They You
They

21. Read part of a student’s journal. Find and correct eight
mistakes:
• Today in class we read a poem by Robert
Frost.
• I really enjoy it. It was about a person who choosed
between two roads in a forest. Before he made his
decision, he spents a lot of time trying to decide
which road to follow. Many people thought the person
were Frost. In the end, he take the road that was less
traveled on. He decided to be a poet. That decision
change his life a lot.
• Sometimes I feel like Frost. Two years ago I decide
to come to this country. That were the biggest
decision of my life.

22. References:
• SOARS, Liz and John, American Headway 1, Oxford University Press,
2001
• FUCHS, M. , BONNER, M. Grammar Express, Addyson Wesley
Longman, Inc., 2002